Urgent Action!-Elders Home & Sacred Homelands Face Destruction

URGENT! PLEASE ACT NOW! Big Mountain, Black Mesa Elder Faces Threat of her Ceremonial Lodge/Home being dismantled while Peabody Coal Company is pushing their massive
coal-mining expansion plans on the sacred ancestral homelands of the Dine' (Navajo) &
Hopi peoples of Black Mesa, AZ. Your voices are urgently needed before these two very important deadlines close!

PEABODY COAL COMPANY'S PLANS UNDERMINES PLANETARY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS BY ACCELERATING
ECOLOGICAL & CULTURAL COLLAPSE! We cannot allow a small cartel of energy corporations and their financial backers to knowingly de-stabilize our planet’s climate and devastate whole communities & ecosystems for their own personal gain. This may turn out to be the most devastating crime ever perpetrated against humanity, the planet and future generations. We are at a critical juncture. Indigenous and land-based people globally have maintained the understanding that our collective survival is deeply dependent on our relationship to the Earth.

Please, act now in support of the communities on the front lines of resistance!


Big Mountain, Black Mesa Elder Faces Threat of her Ceremonial Lodge/Home being dismantled on her ancestral homeland. Elder Served Notice That Rebuilding Ceremonial Lodge is Illegal. On Wednesday, May 20th,Traditional elder and resister to relocation laws, Pauline Whitesinger was served notice that her recently rebuilt ceremonial lodge was illegal and under threat to be dismantled. She was ordered to halt all construction of her earthen lodge, called a hogon, as it is being prepared for an upcoming ceremony. She is refusing to cooperate and is requesting assistance to finish her ceremonial hogon.
Whitesinger, in her mid-eighties and living alone, has been an active resitor to the U.S. Government’s laws and efforts to relocate her off of her traditional homeland. She has also been an outspoken opponent to the existing coal mine on her homeland of Black Mesa, owned by Peabody Coal, as well as current plans for expansion of the strip mine, construction of pipelines and the mining of the area’s aquifers, stating that “Our very mother is being carved up there (at the coal mine)…if the mine is further permitted or expanded, the coal company will eventually kill her.” This recent BIA funded action is an affront not only to this elder and her people but to all advocates of the indigenous lifeways that maintain the health of the planet.

WHAT YOU CAN DO!
* Volunteers are needed right now to stay with Pauline to assist her with herding sheep,
to monitor for more threats, and to complete the hogon.
* Demand that Pauline be left alone on her ancestral homeland. Send a letter on her
behalf TODAY!
* For more information and where to send comments and/or demands:
http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/