Letter from Fern Benally (Black Mesa, AZ) and Don Yellowman (Tuba City, AZ)...
January 2013 St. Louis, MODear Mr. Greg H. Boyce and other Peabody Officials, We have traveled from the Navajo Nation located in what is now the State of Arizona. We are in St. Louis on behalf of some...
View ArticleSupport Native Youth Spring Break on Black Mesa & Organization-Based...
BMIS has been collaboratively planning two exciting on-land events that could use your support! Native Youth Spring Break on Black Mesa This past week (March 14-21), a group of Dineh high school...
View ArticleGathering: June 3-9 Honoring the Resistance at Big Mountain/Black Mesa
“WE SMELL A NEW DAWN WE TASTE THIS NEW POWER WE STEWARD WE SHELTER … WE WITNESS WE PRAY WE GATHER WE FIND NEW KINDNESS WE PAUSE WE KISS THE GROUND” -Vanessa Huang Greetings, We’d like to update you on...
View ArticleSt. Louis Ballot Initiative Against Peabody’s Tax Breaks
By Tim Logan. From STL Today Local progressive activists this week will open a new front in their long-running battle with Peabody Energy: They’re going after tax breaks for the coal giant’s business...
View ArticleBig Mountain Survival School 2013
Two weekends this October (the 5-6th and the 12-14th), the Sovereign Dineh Nation Survival School. which was revived last year after a 20 year hiatus, will take place again on Big Mountain. If you are...
View ArticleBig Mountain Resister, Leonard Benally, Passes On
Yesterday, on October 11th, lifelong Big Mountain resident and relocation resister, Leonard Benally, Dineh, passed on to the spirit world. According to his family, he passed on quickly and easily...
View ArticleBMIS Newsletter Fall 2013
View this email in your browser Sovereign Dineh Nation Survival School 2013 Last year, the SDN Survival School reconvened after a 20 year hiatus. This year, the revival continued! For two weekends in...
View ArticleBig Mountain Spring Training Camp May 16-23, 2014
BIG MOUNTAIN SPRING TRAINING CAMP MAY 16th-23rd, 2014 BIG MOUNTAIN, DINEH NATION #Honor40Years #Not1MoreRELOCATION #KeepitintheGround “What we are trying to save—the Female Mountain—is alive. She is...
View ArticleHelp get the word out about the Big Mountain Training Camp!
Thanks so much for getting the word out about the Big Mountain Training Camp and helping to honor 40 years of Dineh resistance to cultural genocide, forced relocation, and large-scale coal mining. This...
View ArticleRequest for Sheepherders and Human Rights Observers-July 2014
*******BMIS is in the process of updating our contacts. In order to keep receiving updates from BMIS, please confirm your information here. Thank you!! ***** “This land is being taken away because...
View ArticleURGENT: WIDESPREAD IMPOUNDMENTS & AN ARREST ON THE HPL OCTOBER 2014
UPDATE from HPL (Hopi Partition Land) residents: Shirley Tohannie and elder Caroline Tohannie had their entire herd of 65 sheep impounded by the Hopi Rangers (US federal government) Tuesday, October...
View ArticleUPDATES CONCERNING IMPOUNDMENTS & ARRESTS OF THE SOVEREIGN DINEH NATION ON...
Hopi Rangers arrested two individuals and impounded 120 sheep this morning at the homesite of Tom and Etta Begay in Red Willow Springs. Heavily armed rangers guarded and blocked nearby dirt road...
View ArticleElders Living in Fear and Heartache
Clarence and Mary Lou Blackrock of Cactus Valley are sitting up all night by the fire, unable to sleep for fear of their sheep being taken. This distress endangers the elder’s health. This family...
View ArticleSheep Emergency Fund: for Black Mesa families targeted by unjust livestock...
All funds raised will go directly to Dineh families on the Black Mesa ‘HPL’ lands who have been aggressively targeted with livestock impoundments starting on October 22, 2014. Click here for donation...
View ArticleRequesting immediate Support for Hopi Partition Land ( HPL) residents whose...
Below is the letter that the community members impacted by impoundments delivered today at the Navajo Nation Council Chambers in Window Rock: Requesting immediate Support for Hopi Partition Land ( HPL)...
View ArticleElder Matriarch Relocation Resister, Ida Mae Clinton, Passes on to the Spirit...
With great sadness and respect for a powerful life, we share that Elder Matriarch relocation resister, Ida Mae Clinton, of Star Mountain, has passed onto the spirit world. With the permission of her...
View Article“Big Mountain is Under Siege Again”–Louise Benally on Livestock Impoundments
“We are asking you to take action. Big Mountain is under siege again because Peabody Coal is losing its income from coal mining, so it is pressuring the tribal government to attack its own people....
View ArticleCall for Support: Volunteers Requested for Sheepherdering and Human Rights...
Ongoing support in the form of volunteer sheepherders and human rights observers are requested on Black Mesa. So many families within in the communities on Black Mesa have opened their homes to...
View ArticleLaura Flanders Show Special Report on Mining and Resistance on Black Mesa
Check out Jordan Flaherty’s coverage of mining and resistance on Black Mesa on the Laura Flanders Show. http://www.lauraflanders.com/?video=TiZ7pPNISyc
View ArticleRequest for Sheepherders and Human Rights Observers-July 2014
*******BMIS is in the process of updating our contacts. In order to keep receiving updates from BMIS, please confirm your information here. Thank you!! ***** “This land is being taken away because...
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