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> From: Robert Dorman <redorman@pop.plix.com>
> To: rdorma@tincan.tincan.org
> Subject: Dineh denied firewood
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 4:08 PM
> 
> From BIGMTLIST
> 
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> Forwarded message follows: 
> Date sent:        Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:27:29 -0800 (PST) From:         
>     LisNa Red Bear <redbearl@elwha.evergreen.edu> To:               
> redorman@plix.com Copies to:        rdorma@tincan.tincan.org
> Subject:           Re: BIGMTLIST: Kyoto Connection
> 
> Action Alert.
> Dinetah
> Big Mountain, Arizona.
> 
>  HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS HAPPENING IN
>  NORTHEAST ARIZONA. 
> 
>  Stop the Human Rights Violations waged
>  against  the traditional 
> Dineh elders and
>  resisting families of Big Mountain Arizona. 
>   The traditional Dineh who 
> have not
>  signed the 75 year accommodation agreement
>  can no longer gather wood 
> "legally"  
> on their own property.   When Big Mountain
> residents went to apply for a wood permit the
> application was denied. They were then
> threatened by Hopi Tribal Rangers with arrest
> if  caught gathering wood.   They also were
> told that if wood was found at the homes of
> resisting families it would be confiscated
> and the residents would be arrested and taken
> to jail. 
>  This is an OUTRAGE, the 20 degree and below
>  climate is a death 
> sentence to these
>  resisting families.  The resisters are
>  primarily Elder Grandmothers and 
> their families.  Some elders are alone or
> with little support. People must take
> action!!! !
>  The call has been made for people to come
>  and bear witness to the 
> human rights violations occurring right now
> at Big Mountain, Arizona.  Internationally
> people must defend the Dineh's rights to live
> on  their ancestral lands.   This is the
> latest act (of a long list) of forcibly
> depriving residents with basic human needs.
> 
>  The multi-national corporations backed by
>  the United States 
> Government, Navajo, 
> Hopi Tribal Governments are subjecting
> Elderly Women and Children to extreme
> injustice in order to secure the expansion of
> ecological devastation via strip mining
>  coal.  They are forcibly withholding vital
>  life sustaining heat and 
> cooking materials from these families.  We
> must stop the harassment and forcible
> relocation, aka genocide of the traditional
> Dineh resisters. 
> 
> Let your voices be heard,  Cry Out for
> Justice and Take Action!!!!
> 
> Call Robert Caroline, Superintendent of the
> BIA and Hopi Tribal Rangers: 520 738 2225  
> (His men are making  threats and enforcing
> genocidal confiscation of materials)
> 
> For more information Contact: 
> Olympia WA: LisaNa Red Bear 360 866 6000 ext
> 6105
>  e-mail address: redbearl@elwha.evergreen.edu
> 
> Santa Barbara, CA:  Wonono 805 884 0824
> Berkeley, CA: Arlene Hamilton 707 823 6317
> Oakland, CA: Paul Blumm 510 834 7208
> 
> PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL SUPPORTERS!!!
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