Besides honoring sacred #Indigenous landscapes, the new monument will help #EndangeredSpecies like #CaliforniaCondors, #MexicanSpottedOwls, and #HumpbackChubs. Baaj Nwaavjo means "where tribes roam" for the #Havasupai Tribe, and I'tah Kukveni means "our ancestral footprints" for the #Hopi.

- Center for Biological Diversity 

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https://ncnewsline.com/2023/08/08/arizona-gets-a-new-national-monument-as-biden-designates-baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni/?emci=80e99888-ee36-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=9b0e32cd-b737-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=2243774

How Long Delays in Repatriation Let Scientists Damage #Native Remains With #Government Funds
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Federal agencies have awarded millions of dollars to scientific studies on #NativeAmerican human remains, undermining the goals of #NAGPRA as tribes fight for #repatriation.

#Utah #NewMexico #Arizona #Pueblo #Hopi #Research #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/delayed-repatriation-allows-destructive-research-native-american-remains?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

In Arizona Water Ruling, the Hopi Tribe Sees Limits on Its Future
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Arizona's unique method for awarding #water to #tribes was supposed to open up economic possibilities beyond farming for the #Hopi Tribe.

Instead, the tribe says it has dashed their dreams of building a thriving homeland.

#Arizona #WaterRights #Drought #Southwest #NativeAmerican #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-water-ruling-hopi-tribe-limits-future?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Time to run and hide. #OldSpiderWoman is coming. With her #RedSkies. The #Hopi saw this long ago. #SheIsHere. #PissOnIt #Siouxsie #ExterminatingAngel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3cXrOdCDs

"[Haaland] shared with the Tribal Council that she was delivering $6.6 million in funding for the Keams Canyon Water Infrastructure Improvement Project. The funding will be used to install new hydrants, water lines, and automated meters as well as connecting the distribution system to the #Hopi Arsenic Mitigation Project."

#Indigenous #Arizona

https://www.nhonews.com/news/2023/jun/06/hopi-tribe-shares-challenges-and-opportunities-dur/

Black Mesa Trust is a #Hopi #grassroots group. The International Committee on Monuments and Sites International Science Committee presented the group with the #Water and Heritage Shield designated for the Sípàapu.

#GrandCanyon #coloradoriver

#Hopi #indigenous #arizona #waterislife

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/04/17/supreme-court-considers-water-rights-as-native-leaders-honor-rivers/70112953007/

#Hopi Ron Honyouti and some of his latest work at the Mvskoke Art Market, April 22nd and 23rd at River Spirit Casino Resort on the Mvskoke Reservation in Tulsa

#Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

-->> https://Facebook.com/MvskokeArtMarket

#Navajo #Hopi JJ Otero and some of his latest work at the Mvskoke Art Market, April 22nd and 23rd at River Spirit Casino Resort on the Mvskoke Reservation in Tulsa

#Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

-->> https://Facebook.com/MvskokeArtMarket

Driving through #Hopi to get to the other side of #NavajoNation for a #uranium cleanup article I came across a sign for a coffee shop.

I stopped only for coffee, but after talking with Hopi Grounds coffee shop owner Gary Tso - I knew this was a story.

#Navajo #Hopi #Indigenous #coffee

https://www.azcentral.com/mosaic-story/news/local/arizona-people/2023/04/02/hopi-marine-veteran-turns-tsakurshovi-gallery-coffee-shop/70034789007/

The Long Journey Home: #PeabodyCoal removed 341 #Navajo and #Hopi ancestors from their burial places

Peabody Coal's theft of the ancestors began 45 years earlier on #BlackMesa

by Brenda Norrell, January 24, 2023

Louise Bennally, Dine´of Big Mountain said: "Peabody Coal Company doesn't care about anything or anybody, only their #greed matters."

#ThackerPass #NativeAmericans #CulturalGenocide

Read more: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-long-journey-home-peabody-coal.html

Diné elders resist eviction from Big Mountain

Debra O'Gara and Guerry Hoddersen, August 1986

"Forced relocation. The words bring to mind the Trail of Tears, Nazi concentration camps, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Past atrocities, not present and future ones.

"But on the #BlackMesa surrounding Big Mountain in northeastern Arizona, over 11,000 #Diné (Navajo) are facing a new holocaust: removal by armed U.S. troops from their ancestral homelands in an area jointly held by the Navajo and Hopi nations.

"The U.S. media bills the government’s role as peacemaker in a #Hopi vs. #Navajo war. But the reality is very different at Big Mountain.

"For over 50 years, #mining companies have sought to exploit the rich mineral resources that lie beneath the land now occupied by the #Navajos. To do this they first secured the assistance of the federal government, which in the 1920s and ’30s unilaterally replaced the traditional forms of government, based on clan elders, with malleable tribal councils. Over the years these councils have been only too willing to negotiate mineral leases, and the elite who run the councils have gotten rich doing it.

"Now, giant energy #corporations like #PeabodyCoal, #KerrMcGee, and #Exxon want unhampered access to the estimated 44 billion tons of high-grade #coal and deposits of oil, natural gas, and #uranium found on and around #BigMountain.

"There’s only one problem: the traditional Diné who live on the land will not move voluntarily.

"So once again the energy moguls have turned to their servants in the government and the Hopi council for help.

"Forced relocation, the holocaust hatched in corporate boardrooms, has in fact gathered formidable support: it is endorsed by Congress, covered up by the press, and sanctioned by a phony tribal leadership."
#CulturalGenocide #ForcedRelocation #NativeAmericans #EnvironmentalRacism #ThackerPass
https://socialism.com/fs-article/dine-elders-resist-eviction-from-big-mountain/

Last night, I had looked for this website that I remember from 2004 (it was not in my current bookmarks). A good night's sleep and a DuckDuckGo search got me the results I was looking for. Page bookmarked now. This page also has links to .wmv files with the documentary "Vanishing Prayer".

2004: #NativeAmericans: #Navajo Indians targeted for brutal genocide, in #Arizona, #USA ...by Sen. #JohnMcCain, the #BIA & a few greedy Politicians

"To facilitate his special interests, namely: Peabody Western Coal Company (the largest coal group in the US) and the Mohave Generating Facility in Laughlin (operated by Bechtel) delivering low cost coal produced electricity to Las Vegas's Casinos in exchange for Beer Distribution Contracts afforded his wife's business, Hemsley Inc., John McCain personally, over the course of 25 years in the state legislature and federal senate introduced and arranged for the enforcement of unethical and constitutionally unlawful legislations which brutally displaced thousands of Navajo farmers onto a #Nuclear Waste Dump, Church's Rock, #NewMexico to live after brutalizing them for two decades in peaceful resistance. McCain assembled support to modify existing laws and produce new ones (Navajo Resettlement & Navajo Accommodation Agreement, Navajo Settlement, and amendments to PL 93-531, PL S.1003), illegal and unethical enactments designed to force Native American Navajo of the Dineh Band off their Arizona lands, moving them onto Church's Hill in New Mexico, depriving them of lands they've owned since 1500 AD. As a result, thousands of aboriginal elders passed away from shock associated with displacement into urban apartment settings and on to uranium contaminated waste sites such as Church's.

"Using a phony #Hopi tribal counsel composed of paid stooges, and Rangers comprised largely of BIA police, McCain and Peabody Western Coal Company progressively stole and exploited the Dineh's lands for mutual personal gain, brutalizing the natives, terrorizing #elders and engaging in thuggery, forcing these peaceful people to leave 'or else'. They even bulldozed their sacred sites and sweat lodges, beating their members physically and abusing their elders to the point of terrorizing them and causing health failure and heart failures and worse. Fake Hopi Rangers (BIA Police) organized by McCain allies arrested and beat any peaceful resistors on their own lands and while celebrating holy days at their sacred sites. Three Presidential runs by McCain have been backed by the Mining, Power company and its Nevada Casino clients through street names organized in Nevada. McCain's wife has been granted huge Beer distribution contracts at her liquor company, Hemsley, by Nevada gaming interests. Two faced political favor banking has robbed the Dineh of any political support. The supposed 'new lands' at Church's Hill are a #Superfund Nuclear Waste Dump landfill site where children in schoolyards play among openly dumped uranium tailings! Children born in these communities have twice the national average of birth defects!"

#EnvironmentalRacism #PeabodyCoal #McCainShame #NativeAmericans #ThackerPass
Read more: http://www.acsa.net/cain2004.org/

Documentary: Vanishing Prayer (2004)

A 15-minute documentary about how Native American Grandmothers and Elders at #BIgMountain, both #Dineh/#Navajo and #Hopi, resisted relocation by #PeabodyCoal, who wanted to mine on their land, and used legal precedents from #Colonialism (as well as corrupt tribal leaders appointed by the #BIA), to force people off their land.
#NativeAmericans #Genocide #Mining #Lithium #BlackMesa #ThackerPass #EnvironmentalRacism

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs2DXHUKASA

If you can donate, maybe Ireland can again show support to First Nations, as we did during the pandemic to support Hopi & Navajo, in response to the support our ancestors received from the Cherokee during the Great Famine?

Where possible, perhaps we can also support the Lakota in their time of need, in the grip of freezing temperatures:

https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/

#Ireland
#MastoDaoine
#GreatFamine
#AnGortaMór
#Lakota
#Hopi
#Navajo
#Cherokee
#Mutual Aid
#First Nations
#Indigenous
#Native

Long ago, we ran this show (from Loch Ness Productions) in our #planetarium. The show recounts the historical, religious, and cultural rituals practiced during the time of #winterSolstice — not only #Christian and #Jewish, but also #Celtic, #Nordic, #Roman, #Irish, #Mexican and #Hopi.

There's astronomy too: the seasonal skies & a possible astronomical explanations for a "Star over Bethlehem".

Thanks to LNP for posting a rendering online so we can still enjoy it today.

https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=THW4_lVskjc&list=PLm2s7VU8nWaVSMvyIBkw1iw613SagP7e7

Long ago, we ran this show (from Loch Ness Productions) in our #planetarium. The show recounts the historical, religious, and cultural rituals practiced during the time of #winterSolstice — not only #Christian and #Jewish, but also #Celtic, #Nordic, #Roman, #Irish, #Mexican and #Hopi.

There's astronomy too: the seasonal skies & a possible astronomical explanations for a "Star over Bethlehem".

Thanks to LNP for posting a rendering online so we can still enjoy it today.

https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=THW4_lVskjc&list=PLm2s7VU8nWaVSMvyIBkw1iw613SagP7e7&index=0&autoplay=1

Long ago, we ran this show (from Loch Ness Productions) in our #planetarium. The show recounts the historical, religious, and cultural rituals practiced during the time of #winterSolstice — not only #Christian and #Jewish, but also #Celtic, #Nordic, #Roman, #Irish, #Mexican and #Hopi.

There's astronomy too: the seasonal skies & a possible astronomical explanations for a "Star over Bethlehem".

Thanks to LNP for posting a rendering online so we can still enjoy it today.

https://inv.riverside.rocks/playlist?list=PLm2s7VU8nWaVSMvyIBkw1iw613SagP7e7&index=0&autoplay=1

Long ago, we ran this show (from Loch Ness Productions) in our #planetarium. The show recounts the historical, religious, and cultural rituals practiced during the time of #winterSolstice — not only #Christian and #Jewish, but also #Celtic, #Nordic, #Roman, #Irish, #Mexican and #Hopi.

There's astronomy too: the seasonal skies & a possible astronomical explanations for a "Star over Bethlehem".

Thanks to LNP for posting a rendering online so we can still enjoy it today.

https://yt.artemislena.eu/playlist?list=PLm2s7VU8nWaVSMvyIBkw1iw613SagP7e7

RM: "All #European Tradition, #Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That’s #revolution. And that’s a prophecy of my people, of the #Hopi people and of other correct peoples."

Walk gently on the #Earth for we are the keepers of this place. #hopi