Why does such forms of injustices have to continue against the last traditional tribes in AMERICA? Yes, America --known as the, "Human Rights Capital of the World."

Just 30 years ago the Dineh and Hopis were so traditionally intacted to the land and to their ancient intertribalism. Then, 20 years ago they realized that the ancient homelands were in question for complete Federal Government regulation, and even partitioning of their Black Mesa/Big Mountain country. Their movement to defend their sacred country had one of the greatest impact on federal Indian Policies, since perhaps,in the times of Captain Jack, Gernimo and Crazy Horse.

Throughout the late 1970s and into the early 80s, these traditional resistors have in some ways woken up the World, again, about how fragile Indigenous cultures are. The traditional Dineh and their allies, the traditional Hopis, have tried to inform the American public about the Corporate Greed that threaten to enforced new, 20th Century laws that can easily terminate these ancient cultures. These Dineh and Hopi elders have worked hard to further inform what it means to Coexist as Humans, and they've tried to present to the World what was left of their ancient bicultural survivals. The obvious truth has always been there before us.

Who are the Dineh and Hopi traditionals? They are a society of communities that had wish to live in harmony with the natural world. They are the descent of all those great Chiefs that have resisted the late 1800s and early 1900s against Euro-American colonialism. Just 30 years ago, these people lived a prosperous and healthy life, their ceremonial gatherings were one of the largest (real) traditionally conducted events, nearly two-thirds of them still traveled on horseback or by wagons, and their intertribal trading were still as active as hundreds of years before.

Just in 30 years the intent of Peabody Western Coal and Major Utility Companies of the southwest have exterminated most of the ancient ways of this last, unique and traditionally-intact culture. For the Dineh, once a healthy and a harmonous pastoral culture are being confined to only six acres until and last Grazing Permit holder dies. The rest of the prestine lands of Black Mesa/Big Mountain will go to the beef industry, recreational areas and to coal strip mines. As the U. S. Government has ruled that the lands will go to the Hopis, there is no existing plans by the "progressive" Hopi Government of future construction of settlements that can reduplicate their ancient villages.

The last remaining Dineh resistors ask the World Communities to monitor the US's encroachment upon their sacred grounds.

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