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Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology           INFOE
(Cologne branch office)                        Melchiorstr. 3;
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                                                      Germany
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                 FAX, LETTER & E-MAIL CAMPAIGN:
                 SUPPORT THE DINEH RESISTERS
                 STOP BILL S. 1973
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12th September 1996


Dear friends,

we lately received alarming news about the situation on the Dineh
people's land right struggle, which call for immediate action.

U. S. Senate is scheduled to vote on a new bill called "S.1973 Navajo-
Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996" - probably during the next 2
weeks, maybe even in the next few days. This bill if passed would
provide the Hopi tribe additional means to drive the Dineh resisters
off their lands and would seal the fate for the Dineh resisters,
giving title to their land to the Hopi tribe.


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Bill "S. 1973" has been introduced by Senator Mc. Cain without any
participation of the local residents, not even awaiting the results of
the court hearing on the Accommodation Agreement, which the Hopi tribe
wants the resisters to sign. A reason for this and the ongoing
harrassments at Big Mountain must be seen in the court ruling by Judge
R. Child, who in March 1996 ordered the cancellation of Peabody Coal's
permit to operate the Black Mesa/Kayenta mines, the largest strip mine
in America. In this landmark ruling, the judge pinpointed the complete
disregard of the human and environmental rights of the local
residents. He ruled that the mine must have the consent of the local
residents in order to operate:

                "Only after Peabody is able to accompany an
                application to mine with written consents from
                Petitioner Kescoli and all other like situated
                petitioners may the Office of Surface Mining consider
                such application in the future. This will remain so
                long as Petitioner Kescoli and similarly situated
                petitioners shall remain in the proposed mining area
                as occupants of their customary use areas."

But the local residents believe that the land of Black Mesa is sacred
and a coal mine is a rape of the Earth. The supporters of the coal
mine know that these redsidents will never consent to the mine, and
the only way that the mines can continue is to forcibly relocate these
people.

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A delegation of Dineh elders is in Washington at this moment, lobbying
the senators to vote "NO" on bill S.1973. Passage of S. 1973 would
reaffirm P. L. 93-531, the original Relocation Act, which numerous
Senators and Congresspeople have already called 'a great mistake'.
What the people want instead is a thorough Congressional Oversight
Investigation of S. 1973 and of P. L. 93-531, which takes into account
the Human Rights of the local residents.

Therefore we have ageed with the Sovereign Dineh Nation to conduct a
letter writing and faxing campaign, telling the Senators that we are
outraged at the human rights violations being connected with S. 1973.
Please support the elders and all the resisters on HPL by telling the
Senators to NO vote on S. 1973. Contact Senator Mc. Cain and as many
Senators as you wish from the attached list.

The Dineh resisters have already experienced what it will mean to live
under Hopi regulation. They have to get  permits for collecting
firewood, conducting ceremonies, etc. For more than a decade they
haven't been allowed to fix their homes. Even before Hopi jurisdiction
is final, Hopi rangers are demonstrating their military force. They
are blockading religious ceremonies, bulldozing ceremonial hogans,
illegally confiscating livestock and abusing them in the impoundment
yard, harassing local residents, searching cars, enforcing an
Exclusion law which prohibits white people from visiting them without
a permit, denying entry and searching food caravans, etc. Such actions
clearly demonstrate to the resisters what the Hopi tribe has in mind
for them.

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Please let the senators know that S. 1973 violates the
fundamental human, religious and constitutional rights of the
Dineh residents of the Hopi Partitioned Land. Some families
have lived on the land for 18 generations; their title to the
land must be respected as much as with other property-owning
citizens.
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                For further information see the Sovereign Dineh
                                Nation Update from August 21st.
                                       http://www.primenet.com/~sdn

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*TARGET LIST*


Write:	The Honorable (full name)
	U.S. Senate
	Washington, DC  20510
	USA

Capitol switchboard to find out phone numbers for every Senator
phone # 202/224-3121

Vice-President Gore is by title also the President of the Senate.
phone # 202/224-2424  e-mail # Vice.President@whitehouse.gov

President Clinton phone # 202/456-1414  e-mail #
President@whitehouse.gov

Phil Bakersenk and Steve Healey Aides to Senator John McCain, AZ,
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs      phone #
202/224-2235     fax # 202/228-2862    e-mail #
senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov

Joe Trujillo, Legislative Assistant and Kay Davies, Indian Affairs
Aide to Senator Pete V. Domenici, NM   phone #  202/224-6621      fax
# 202/224- 7371      e-mail # senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov

Tim Glazewski Aide to Senator Jon Kyl, AZ      phone # 202/224-4521
fax # 202/228-1239    e-mail # info@kyl.senate.gov

Patricia Zell Aide to Senator Daniel K. Inouye, HI   phone # 202/224-
3934
fax # 202/228-2589    e-mail # senator@inouye.senate.gov

Gary Bohnee Aide to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, CO   phone #
202/224-5852      fax #  202/224-1933

Mia Ellis Aide to Senator Dianne Feinstein, CA   phone # 202/224-3841
fax # 202/228-3954   e-mail # senator@feinstein.senate.gov

Diane Hill Aide to Senator J. Robert Kerrey, NE  phone # 202/224-6551
fax # 202/224-7645     e-mail # bob@kerrey.senate.gov

Mike Queenan Aide to Senator John F. Kerry, MA  phone # 202/224-2742
fax # 202/224-8525    e-mail # john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov

Chris Miller Aide to Senator Carl Levin, MI    phone # 202/224-6221
fax # 202/224-1388    e-mail # senator@levin.senate.gov

Jen Lockhard Aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, MA     phone #
202/224-4543
fax # 202/224-2417    e-mail # senator@kennedy.senate.gov

Senator Barbara Boxer, CA    phone # 202/224-3553      fax # 415/956-
6701
e-mail # senator@boxer.senate.gov

Senator Daniel K Akaka, HI   phone # 202/224-6361   fax # 202/224-2126
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