And now:"Save Ward Valley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Each and every one of you out there should add their name and/or organization to this resolution. Also, please print it out and get signatures and forward to all. NOTE: Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not Save Ward Valley!!! From: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:46 PM Subject: People's Resolution for the Dine'h of Black Mesa to the United Statesof America, July 7, 1999 If you want to add your name to this resolution, please reply *without* including a copy of the resolution (but keep the subject header) and type in your full name, city, state, and zip. Thank you, Beth, ISCO People's Resolution for the Dine'h of Black Mesa to the United States of America, July 7, 1999 Attention: Sen. John McCain; Christopher Bavasi, Executive Director, Office of Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation; Kevin Gover, Asst. Secretary of Indian Affairs; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of Interior; Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice; President William Clinton, United States of America: We, the People of this land now known as "America" have witnessed the ongoing forced relocation of traditional Dine'h (Navajo) families from Big Mountain and other communities in the HPL of Black Mesa, Arizona. We have asked you many times to repeal PL 93-531 and PL 104-301 and to stop the genocidal forced removal and ecocidal coal strip-mining. We have gone to Congress, the US District Court, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Interior Administrative Court, and the United Nations Commission for Human Rights. We continue these efforts. You have staked out and reduced Dine'h lands, allowed the ripping apart of their shrines and burial grounds, destroyed their way of life, made it Misery. You have served the Dine'h with livestock impoundment notices and made a show of force by counting sheep with multiple heavily armed BIA units. You have served the Dine'h with 90-day notices to sign leases and give up their ancestoral rights to their lands, or to relocate to polluted New Lands. We, the People of this place now called "America" are serving you notice. We are here today to warn you, what you are doing is wrong. We are here today to tell you, we want full repeal of both PL 93-531 and PL 104-301 and we have waited long enough. Here are our set of demands: 1) Repeal Relocation: US House of Representatives and US Senate to fully repeal PL 93-531, Navajo-Hopi Indian Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1974 and PL 104-301, Navajo-Hopi Indian Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996. 2) Commitment to Reparations: Inter-Agency plan with full funding to restore the livestock, land, water, sacred sites, and Dine'h returning home. 3) US Accountability: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Services, Department of Interior and Department of Justice to give a full accounting of misappropriated Indian trust lands and funds, as well as owning up to this and similar genocidal atrocities, while reasserting Native Sovereignty and supremacy of Natural Law, including giving an accurate portrayal of history. 4) Again we have waited a long time for justice. We are continuing to try every legal avenue to stop forced relocation of the Dine'h. We are planning to stop impending forced evictions whether they are attempted before or after the next deadline, February 1, 2000. You are hereby warned that what you have been doing is wrong and to stop it. If necessary, we will intervene to bring about a Direct Repeal of Relocation by the People of "America." Signed, Elizabeth Howard, President Beth Newberry, Chair Alice Scherp, Secretary/Treasurer Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon PO Box 11715, Eugene, OR 97440 (541) 683-2789 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
