Black Mesa Indigenous Support

“Relocation is Genocide”

P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002
 (928) 773-8086
blackmesais@riseup.net
blackmesais@lists.riseup.net

http://www.blackmesais.org/index.html

The mining of uranium has taken a heavy toll on the Indian population in the Four Corners area. Not only did the Indians receive very little in the way of royalties for the extraction of the ore from their lands, but health and safety precautions in the mines is essentially non-existent.

• Mine operators and the U. S. government appealed to the patriotism of the local Indians to exempt them from conformance with labor laws. The miners wore no protective clothing and therefore carried the contaminated clothing home with them each day. They drank the water that seeped through the ore layers into the mines. The tailings piles were left in the open near the mouths of the mines to be blown over the land by the breeze. The radon (gas) released from these tailings was carried perhaps as far as the east coast by atmospheric currents. The tailings themselves were slowly washed down into the rivers and thus into the regional water supply.

  Large ponds of radioactive residues from the processing of the ore were created behind earthen dams with minimal regulation. One of these dams broke on July 16, 1979, at Church Rock, NM,1 with disasterous consequences for the Navajo population of this area. The volume of material released was so great that manhole covers were lifted in Gallup, NM, 20 miles downstream." - Karen M. Strom http://www.hanksville.org/voyage/Day9.html

   

• The Truth About Church Rock "New Lands".

   

• EPA description of the Church Rock nuclear waste spill superfund site that is upstream from the relocation site

  • Poor labor conditions in uranium mines

• Peabody Coal expansion plans exposed!!

• PL 104-301 This is the law passed by Congress in 1996, which provides the
  authorization to issue leases under the Accommodation Agreement.

• Manybeads Lawsuit Dismissed

  • Supreme Court rejects Navajo case
    Update info

  • Background

• Analysis of Dineh case & needs (Center for Constitutional Rights)

• S1973, Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996

• Hopi History: The Story of the Alcatraz Prisoners

• Art Bell Interview with Hopi Elders

• Techqua Ikachi

• UN Convention on Genocide

• UN Commission on Human Rights, 56th session, 19 March - 27 April, '01

• European Parliament Resolution approved Feb 2000

• A Short history of the Annual Food and Supply Run

  • 2002 report

• Story of Big Mountain - Where the Profession is Hope

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