And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:41:45 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Robert Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: HELP NEEDED for Huck and Genevieve Greyeyes >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by thinboy.theofficenet.com id HAA30431 > >From BIGMTLIST > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:37:50 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: New Years Eve call for Help for Huck and Genevieve Greyeyes >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0.1 for Mac sub 82 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by >thinboy.theofficenet.com id UAA13454 > >Dear Big Mountain List, > >It is New Years eve and I just finished typing a testimony that I would like >to share with you. Huck and Genevieve Greyeyes want to build a ceremonial >hogan to replace the one that was destroyed by the Hopi Bureau of Indian >Affairs Rangers and they want to fix their home. They have asked for Internet >supporters to help them because the US government, Hopi tribe and Navajo >Nation don't care. > >If you can make a tax-deductible contribution towards this effort please send >your donation to: >Steve Sugarman, Executive Director >Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) >20110 Rockport Way, Malibu, CA 90265-5340 >phone: (310) 456-3534, Tax ID number 95-4116679 >Please make your check out to Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) >and specify that your donation is for Huck and Genevieve Greyeyes or send your >donation directly to them. > >Thank you for your support. Wishing you a joyous and blessed New Year. This >is the year that marks the turning point for the Dineh. With your help we >will succeed. >Marsha > >Huck and Genevieve Greyeyes >P.O. Box 814 >Tuba City, AZ 86045 > >To: Ms. Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights > Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance > Mr. Francis Deng, Special Rapporteur for Internally Displaced Persons > United Nations Commission on Human Rights > >Re: The meaning of our hogan that was destroyed. > >Hogans are made with prayers. They are set up that way in the creator�s way >facing to the east. Our hogan meant a lot. A lot of ceremonies-always there. >It really hurt us in our mind and heart what was done to us. > >A hogan is educational for our kids-to know and realize how sacred and what a >hogan means to us as Dineh people so our children can learn from this in >documents. The hogan has songs and prayers we always sing in ceremony. The >hogan has a song of itself. Then songs are sacred and prayers are sacred. >You can�t put any words than what originated from the Holy people. > >On April 15 or 16, 1996 the Hopi tribe illegally tore down our ceremonial >hogan. It was more than 100 years old. That morning I saw 4 trucks, 1 >tractor trailer and 5 Hopi Bureau of Indian Affairs officials around our >hogan. We tried to tell the Ranger that the hogan belonged to my deceased >brother-in-law who died four months before and it was given to us by him for >ceremonial use or to live in. We tried to tell the Ranger that it was for >medicine man and I was going to use it again but the Hopi BIA just wanted to >bury it. We said no. We said this you can�t do this. This is why the Holy >Ones hold back the rain. Every hogan has a name, prayers and a song. You >cannot bury it. This hogan is our church; we can�t just destroy it. We sing >and pray in it. Genevieve said, I don�t know what to do. I am getting old. >My husband is 74 years old and he is kind of sick. We were going to have a >prayer and now we don�t have a hogan. I don�t know what to do. She remembers >the hogan as a child. She guessed that the hogan was more than 100-years old. > >When the hogan was first built it was blessed with corn pollen. After it was >completed we built a fire. Genevieve�s father�s hogan, it�s been built over >100 years ago. There were a lot of ceremonies there, a lot of different kind >of ceremonies-even sacred mount bundle was done and re checked there and a lot >of births. Genevieve was born in that hogan. > >There used to be one male hogan-it was in the meadow but the Hopi dismantled >it and took all the posts and all the materials. This was back in 1974 or 5. >They didn�t even notify us before it was gone-even the posts are gone now. >There used to be a sweat lodge-we don�t know what they did with it-they buried >the posts or took it. > >They destroyed at least 10 hogans in the area-they buried them. They are not >supposed to do this. This is how they violated it. > >It�s really hard without a hogan. In ceremony its always in a sacred manner- >blessed from the beginning from the east, south, west, north-whatever happens >during ceremony-corn pollen always in a clockwise manner. There has to be a >hogan. this was our original hogan they destroyed. Medicine men have to say >prayers in a hogan, they cannot do a ceremony in a stone house. So the hogan >itself means a lot to us especially with ceremonies. We saw a lot of people >healed there from a lot of kinds of healing at this hogan. With hogan comes >its own life, livelihood, livestock, food, corn and various kinds of food we >grow. We must have a hogan. We have some sacred instruments we use in >performing ceremonies and we have sacred mountain bundles. It is a hardship >for us not to be able to do ceremonies. > >We are hoping we can make another hogan. We are slowly collecting posts back >together. All the parts we used to use we are fobidden-Juniper to build a >hogan. We have to go far away to get the wood. Even paying $10.00 for one >post will cost us $2,800.00 To buy the posts it adds up to just that to >rebuild. That�s not labor just the posts alone. I want to rebuild my hogan >with protection so it will never be desecrated again. > >Our house is falling apart, when it rains it rains inside and our ceiling is >falling in. It is cold in here and we have much illness from this. In 1972 >we built this house and since then we can not fix it. We want to fix our >home. We cannot even gather firewood to heat our home because it is against >the law and we are denied a permit. So we have to buy our firewood. > >The Hopi Bureau of Indian Affairs Rangers put fence posts in our land. When >they put them in they never did a geological clearance. There was no survey > crew to mark off the boundary, there was just a guy making a line. Their >bulldozers caused erosion. They don�t take care of the land. This hurts the >land but they don�t care. We were told they were building a fence to protect >their cattle from running off to the highway. They cut off the windmill, our >water supply for our livestock when they put in this fence. Now we have to >haul water for our livestock when we have a well right near here. They also >put in a cattle guard so we have no way to get our livestock to this water. >We were told if we do anything to the fence so we can have access to the water >that we can go to jail. The fencing is hard. > >Before the fence we had good grazing management. We moved around to different >areas for summer, then come back for winter and let the land rest. It was >pretty good. We used to go to water but with the fencing we are trapped in-we >are all fenced in. > >>From our doorway, a rocky ridge can be seen. It�s called Rough Rock Point >and >is a traditional Navajo shrine for livestock. We are called trespassers but >the Hopi BIA is not going to chase us out. I volunteered for the Navajo a >long time ago so our freedom > >would be guaranteed. We don�t want to lose this land or take off some place. >Please help us be able to build a ceremonial hogan again and protect it so >that it will not be destroyed. Please help us have access to water for our >livestock and give us the right to fix our home so we can feel safe again. > > > Yours sincerely, > > >Huck Greyeyes Genevieve Greyeyes > > >Translated by: Date > >******************************************** >You are on the BIGMTLIST, a moderated mailing list >of Big Mountain relocation resistance information >(not discussion or debate). To unsubscribe, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the >subject header. For non-list members receiving >this post as a forwarded message, you may subscribe >by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word >"subscribe" in the subject header. 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