And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From the Gallup Independant, this article about relocation and
broken promises:
<http://www.cia-g.com/~gallpind/NEWLANDS.html>
Welcome to New Lands, "home of broken dreams" : New Lands residents
find buildings, promises both empty
By Malcolm Brenner
Staff Writer
SANDERS, Ariz. _ In Navajo, the name Nahata Dziil means "strong planning."
But to the residents of Nahata Dziil Chapter, also known as the New Lands,
a more appropriate name might be "Adee Hadee Sdzii Sits'il" _ "I broke my
promise to you."
Since relocation began in the mid-1980s, over 1,000 Navajo have moved to
this sprawling chapter southwest of Sanders. To entice them from lands
given to the Hopis, those relocated were promised homes, jobs, education,
social services, grazing land, healthcare and law enforcement. Now, the
factory that once offered jobs is padlocked. The Indian Health Service
clinic is closed for lack of money and the police station stands empty,
unless an officer from Window Rock, answering another call, stops by to
fill out paperwork.
The only things they have enough of, Nahata Dziil residents said Wednesday,
were crime, alcohol and despair. And they have too much of those. "Nobody
comes out here to ask us how we are doing," said Jennifer Yazzie, who moved
from Low Mountain, Ariz., eight years ago. "The elderlies out here have
their lights shut off, they have no propane, where do they turn to? They
die of loneliness. What's going to happen to us? We're merely statistics to
the government."
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