And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <+>=<+>KOLA Newslist<+>=<+> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:05:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Repeal the "Freeze" at Black Mesa: House Resolution 151 (fwd) Please contact your US Representatives (or their aides that work on Indian concerns) when they come back into session, especially if they are on the Resources Committee, and persuade them to support HR 151 and to use it as an opportunity to open discussions for full repeal of both PL 93-531 and PL 104-301. Understand, housing construction and repairs have been forbidden on the HPL since 1966! It is illegal to repair a roof! Young Dine'h families haven't been allowed to build their own homes for 33 years! Regardless of any *perceived* land dispute, this is a human rights violation, period! For more info take a look at Section 1. Findings: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query Thank you, Beth, ISCO ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:27:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Black Mesa Projects/ ISCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: HR 151 Please act now to support repeal of section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531 and tell the Representatives you speak with that the whole of Public Law 93-531 must be repealed. Representative J.D. Hayworth is currently introducing legislation in the House of Representatives to repeal Public Law 93-531 section 10(f) commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze". Section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the Bennett Freeze is the part of the law that has legalized the denial of Dineh people to any infrastructure, including access to water, housing improvement, new home construction, dirt road maintainence and all services. The Bennett Freeze makes it illegal to even fix a broken window or a leak in your roof. Public Law 93-531 as a whole is the Relocation Act passed in 1974. It is responsible for the relocation of over 12,000 traditional Dineh people with those trying to hang on facing a relocation deadline of February 1, 2000 authorized by Public Law 104-301. Please send hand written letters by snail mail to your US Representatives. Contact info can be found at www.house.gov. Your representative may be on the Resources Committee, where HR has sat for several months, to find out check www.congress.gov. House Resolution 151: To repeal the Bennett Freeze thus ending a gross treaty violation with the Navajo Nation and allowing the Navajo Nation to live in habitable dwellings and raise their living conditions,... (Introduced in the House) HR 151 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 151 To repeal the Bennett Freeze thus ending a gross treaty violation with the Navajo Nation and allowing the Navajo Nation to live in habitable dwellings and raise their living conditions, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 1999 Mr. HAYWORTH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources A BILL To repeal the Bennett Freeze thus ending a gross treaty violation with the Navajo Nation and allowing the Navajo Nation to live in habitable dwellings and raise their living conditions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that-- (1) the Navajo Nation is one of the largest and most economically depressed Indian reservations in the United States; (2) the Bennett Freeze, named after former Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert Bennett, was administratively issued in 1966 to restrict the Navajo tribe from constructing and repairing their dwellings on land that was subject to a land dispute with the Hopi Tribe; (3) the Bennett Freeze has affected 1,500,000 acres of land, approximately 9 percent of the total acreage of the Navajo Nation, covering 10 chapters and affecting nearly 8,000 people; (4) only 3 percent of the families affected by the Bennett Freeze have electricity and only 10 percent have running water; (5) since 1966, the population has increased by approximately 65 percent in the Bennett Freeze area, forcing several generations of families to live together in dwellings that have been declared unfit for human habitation; (6) members of the medical community confirm that overcrowding and the absence of running water, refrigeration, and adequate sewage disposal adversely impact the mental and physical health of Navajos residing in the Bennett Freeze area; (7) the Bennett Freeze has halted essential construction, including power line extensions, waterline extensions, road improvements, and community facilities improvements; (8) when the Bennett Freeze was temporarily lifted in 1992, an ambitious $20,000,000 construction plan for new dwellings was proposed that would have raised living conditions and increased the economic viability of the Bennett Freeze area, however, the plan did not become a reality because a Federal judge reinstated the freeze; (9) the Federal Government has not taken the steps necessary to end the Bennett Freeze in this already economically depressed community; and (10) the Bennett Freeze is a gross violation of treaty obligations to the Navajo Nation. SEC. 2. REPEAL OF THE BENNETT FREEZE. Section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531 (25 U.S.C. 640d-9(f)) is repealed. =========================================================== (this e-mail was in part, snipped from an e-mail sent on Dorman's BIGMTNLIST). <+>=<+> http://users.skynet.be/kola/ http://kola-hq.hypermart.net <+>=<+> 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/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
