And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:04:54 -0800 (PST)
>From: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fax Attack Re: Meeting with Pauline
>
>Please fax similar letters all day Monday Dec. 7th to (520) 774-1977 and
>call them at (520) 779-2721 to pursuade their meeting on Tuesday Dec. 8th!
>
>PO Box 11715
>Eugene, OR 97440
>
> Christopher J. Bavasi,
> Executive Director
> US ONH Indian Relocation
> PO Box 201, 201 E Birch
> Flagstaff, AZ 86002
>
> December 7, 1998
>
>Christopher J. Bavasi:
>
>I urge you, as Executive Director of the United States Office of Navajo
>Hopi Indian Relocation, to meet directly with Dine'h Elder Pauline
>Whitesinger and other Dine'h non-signers of the Accommodation Agreement
>December 8th at her homesite near the Wide Ruins-Sweet Water Canyon area
>of the HPL in Arizona. This I urge you to do at her request!
>
>Ms. Whitesinger and others have received your 30-day notice to choose a
>site on the "New Lands" for relocation housing, or sign a so-called
>"Accommodation Agreement" lease contract, or face forcibly eviction.
>
>Throughout this forced relocation program, these traditional Dine'h
>(Navajo) have been left out of the decision-making process. They are the
>ones who have to live with the outcome of US government policy. Meet with
>and hear them! Fulfill your trust responsibility to them on December 8th.
>
>The United States has at times called relocation "voluntary" to counter
>critism by US citizens, the international community and the United
>Nations. However, we have always known it to be forced and inhumane,
>regardless of lease options or public relations campaigns. The looming
>threat to pick-a-site-while-you-still-can is nothing new, it is the same
>coersive language used against the traditional Dine'h since PL 93-531
>partitioned the former Joint Use Area. This is the same coersive,
>threatening language used to pursuade unwilling and fearful Dine'h into
>signing away their sovereignty and religious rights under leases.
>
>We demand that you meet with Pauline Whitesinger in a respectful way, open
>to listening to her and to the other non-signers at her homesite Dec. 8th.
>It is your moral and legal obligation to see that their needs are met,
>their rights respected, and that NO HARM COME TO THESE PEOPLE!
>
>We demand that you stop making threats of forced evictions and livestock
>impoundments to these traditional Dine'h people! We demand that you stop
>the punitive and cruel measures against them designed to coerce their
>removal for almost three decades: injunctions against building or
>repairing their homes, water supply destruction, wood confiscation, sacred
>site and burial destruction, and ceremonial interference. Stop it!!
>
>Your only choice at this point is to cease forced relocation tactics and
>policies in your office and throughout the United States agencies and
>governmental bodies. Then, genuine efforts for restitution to those who
>have suffered under this ordeal will be required. If you do not comply,
>notice will be sent and those responsible will be held accountable for
>crimes against humanity. We will see to it!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Beth Newberry, chair
>Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
>
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