And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:29:26 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Robert Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Thanksgiving Food and Supply Run results > >From BIGMTLIST >Here is a caravan report from Michael Gerell. > >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:36:22 -0800 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Gerell) >Subject: Re: Keepin in touch > >Here's a short report on the supply run. I guess this is all i'm gonna >publish on the thing unless somebody needs more. > >The 1998 Thanksgiving Food and Supply Run to support the people resisting >relocation from Big Mountain brought many people from the four directions >to Black Mesa, Star Mountain, Sand Springs, Thin Rock Mesa, and the rest of >the HPL. We came to offer our support in the people's struggle against the >Government's plan to remove them from their anceatral homelands. They seek >only to maintain their life way living on the land that bore them and that >nutures their spirit even more than their bodies. Yet in the name of >profit and power the corporate state would destroy not only the land but >the people who call her Mother. Ours was but a small jesture of support >and solidarity for a people so much a part of the land that they choose a >life of poverty and oppresion to preserve their sacred connection. When, >in the 1860's, they were first removed from their lands many sickened and >died from not only disease but from spirit sickness as well. It is >happening again today as those who have relocated die prematurely and >within a short time of relocating. Kit Carson came with armed troops to >burn the people off and herd them to the concentration camps. If they have >to the government may resort to similar tactics this time. Only by keeping >the light of global awareness shining in their eyes can the minions of >corporate greed be kept from applying brute force to remove these last >obsticales to their masters malignant avarice. > >Thanks to the generous support of several Northern California coops thru >the Mountain Peoples Warehouse, the Indigenous Peoples Project and the >contributions of many people from all over the west and in combination with >caravans from Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and California we >were able to deliver food and supplies to 100 families. Each family got >these items: > > 50lbs rolled oats >50lbs flour >50lbs onions >40lbs potatoes >22lbs rice >13lbs pinto beans >11lbs corn meal >5lbs millet >4lbs sugar >4lbs squash >3lbs salt >3lbs split peas >2lbs baking powder >2lbs carrots >1lb corn kernels >1lb sunflower seeds >1lb garbonzo beans >1lb soy beans >1lb oat bran >1lb wheat berries >2qts cooking oil >1lb coffee >a box of matchesa > 12oz jar of jam >3 lemons >1lb powdered milk > >Plus the Colorado Caravan brought a semi full of hay and feed for the live >stock. > >We were also able to fund the Black Mesa Indigenous Support office in their >effort to coordinate supporters with people in need on the land. These >seasoned activists are doing the important on the spot record keeping and >wittnessing that will keep us all informed of the welfare of the people of >the HPL. > >Along with distributing the food and supplies, we made sure the people had >fire wood and fixed a couple of roofs. Our main objective was to let the >people know that they are not forgotten, that there are folk out here in >America who know what is happening on Big Mountain and we support them in >their struggle, that we will stand by them in the effort to keep them on >their lands and carrying out the ceremonies and saying the prayers keeping >the earth turning and the sun rising every day. > > >Michael Gerell made this report. All facts are to the best of my knowledge >and I appologize for any inaccuracies. >Ho! Mitaque Oysin! > > > > >walk in Beauty, > m.g. > > >******************************************** >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. For Big Mountain >and other activist internet resources, visit "The >Activist Page" at > >http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/welcome.html >Also, for great internet tools please visit: > >http://www.msw.com.au/cgi-bin/msw/entry?id=1271 >******************************************** > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
