And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:06:38 EDT Subject: Part II-Update on Kee Shay's Exclusion Order Dear Big Mountain Supporters, The inhumanity of the tragedy the US government is perpetuating against the Dineh people is demonstrated by the Notice of Order of Proposed Exclusion given to a Big Mountain elder Kee Shay. With the deadline date of February 1, 2000 fast approaching, we need your help to obtain repeal of the relocation laws Public Law 93-531 and 104-301. Update on Kee Shay's Notice of Order of Proposed Exclusion by the Hopi Tribe The deadline of May 22 came and went and the Hopi tribe has refused to respond to a letter sent by Kee Shay on May 17 via certified mail, return receipt requested. The basis for the letter sent that was released previously on the Big Mountain list, is that Kee Shay says he needs copies of the Ordinances he is being cited in violation of by the Hopi tribe before he can make a proper response. But the Hopi tribe has refused to provide him with this information. As you know, Kee Shay and his wife, May Shay are being told they are trespassing on their land. May Shay says, “I have lived here since before I was 18 years old when I married Kee Shay. I am now 76 years old. My sheep corral, my house and my ash pile is here. This is where I live. We are even told that our hogan which we need to rebuild in order to have ceremonies in is illegal. How are we to survive? How can the Hopi tribe say we are a danger to the Hopi Tribe? I am afraid when I am here alone, the Hopi police come by here and tell me to leave my home and that I do not belong here. They do this to me when I am out sheepherding alone. Who is going to protect me? How can they do this to me?” Shay Benally, Kee Shay’s son says, “I was concerned with the deadline for response to the Exclusion Order approaching that we would not receive the information we needed to make a response so I went to see the people at the Tuba City Navajo Hopi Land Commission to ask them if they could give me a copy of the Ordinance 46 and 43 and the other Ordinances that my father Kee Shay is being cited in violation of. The people at the Navajo Hopi Land Commission told me that they have this information but would not give it to me. How are we supposed to respond to the Exclusion Order? They should just take the word Navajo out of Navajo Hopi Land Commission.” Shay Benally continues, “Kee Shay was concerned when the Navajo Hopi Land Commission would not release the information he needed and we still had not received any response to our letter asking for copies of the Ordinances, so I went to the Hopi tribe to see the Hopi Chairman Wayne Taylor on Friday, May 21. I asked him if he would give me the text of the Ordinances that my father Kee Shay is being cited in violation of. He just told me that he would not give me the information and that he wanted to keep this information confidential. Confidential from who? My father Kee Shay and my mother are being told they are going to be excluded from their home.” We need you to contact the Hopi Chairman and tell him to stop the Exclusion process against Kee Shay and release copies of all Ordinances he is being cited of. Call: Wayne Taylor, Jr. Chairman of the Hopi Tribe (520) 734-3000 and Kelsey Begaye, President The Navajo Nation P.O. Box 9000 Window Rock, AZ 86515 (520) 871-6000 and Roman Bitsuie, Director Navajo Hopi Land Commission P.O. Box 2549 Window Rock, AZ 86515 (502) 871-6277 Thank you, Marsha Monestersky Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation Phone: (520) 673-3461 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/welcome.html and www.solcommunications.com Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
