Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 12:25:58 -0400 From: bobhunt@erols.com Subject: [lpaz-repost] (fwd) [TheRevelation] SSVOP - Navajos plan Sun Dance despite site's desecration To: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com
anyone know about this?
bh
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:34:07 -0400, "Spiritual Piglet" <cropolis@erinet.com> wrote:
any ideas as to why the UN would be getting involved in this issue? as the old joke gets paraphrased, "Hello, we are here from the UN and are here to help you adjust to the situation."
May your days be blessed with bounty and pleasantness. Reality may be different, even if you may not notice the change.
----- Original Message ----- From: Raven Weaver To: SSVOP@topica.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: SSVOP - Navajos plan Sun Dance despite site's desecration
SSVOP: Native American News http://www.topica.com/lists/SSVOP Navajos plan Sun Dance despite site's desecration
Mark Shaffer and Tom Zoellner The Arizona Republic Aug. 30, 2001 12:00:00 http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0830sundance30.html
FLAGSTAFF - Supporters of a controversial Native American dance site bulldozed this month by the Hopi Tribe said they are preparing another Sun Dance this weekend, although probably not on Hopi land.
Meanwhile, traditional Navajos still living on land awarded to the Hopis nearly 30 years ago in the Big Mountain area said they knew nothing about the planned prayer activities.
"Every day is a day of prayers for all of us who remain there on our land," said longtime Navajo resister Louise Benally, who condemned the Hopis as having an "illegal government" that doesn't respect the religious rights of others. Benally refused to say if local Navajos would participate in the ceremonies.
The Sun Dance, originally part of Lakota culture, was brought to the disputed lands 16 years ago and quickly became a symbol of the Navajo resisters. Organizers said it is a four-day ceremony that seeks healing among Indian peoples.
But Hopi officials said it has brought only pain and it is being stirred up by 10 Navajo families who have refused to sign an accommodation with the Hopi Tribe.
"These few Navajo individuals who call themselves resisters, with the help of outside agitators, blatantly refuse to respect and abide by the laws of the Hopi Tribe," the tribe said in a statement. "They have brought civil unrest to the Hopi people, terrorized our villages with violence and threats, and continue to destabilize the peace and security of the Hopi people. These are actions we will not tolerate."
About 35 Sun Dance supporters said they will have another ceremony Sunday near the site, at a field known as Camp Anna Mae. Among the participants will be medicine men from the Lakota tribe in South Dakota.
A daylong prayer ceremony, preceded by a sweat lodge ceremony on Saturday, is intended as a peaceful gesture to "set the spirits walking" from the desecrated site, said Gregory Hoddy, a Scottsdale computer network engineer who plans to participate.
Hoddy said that if the Hopi Tribe denies permits for the ceremony, it will be held on nearby land partitioned to the Navajo Nation as part of the land settlement between the two tribes.
The Aug. 17 bulldozing of the Sun Dance site has rekindled emotions over the bitter land dispute, in which thousands of Navajos were pressured to relocate to new lands, most of them near the community of Sanders in northeastern Arizona.
Federal officials have said in recent months that they hoped for a comprehensive settlement by the end of the year to rmove the few Navajos remaining on the land awarded to the Hopis.
But the Hopis' aggressive stand to assert its rule over the land could be throwing a monkey wrench in the process, some federal officials said.
Key Watchman, a Big Mountain area resident who is a delegate to the United Nations on indigenous matters, said the destruction of the religious site has been reported to the U.N. and a special mediator is expected to visit the area soon . Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. . Other Disclaimers: http://www.topica.com/lists/SSVOP 2001-2002 SSVOP - All Rights Reserved.
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