END PEABODY MINING-HELP SAVE OUR WATER and SACRED SITES
July 2014
We are appealing to you to help save our sacred waters, religious shrines and cultural resources. Please mail your federal tax deductible donation to Black Mesa Trust, P.O. Box 33, Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039, today.
COAL MINING ON BLACK MESA:
- Over 60 billion gallons of pristine fossil water stored deep under Black Mesa will be pumped from 1970 to the end of 2044 to operate coal strip mining by Peabody Western coal Co., if it is granted approval by U.S. Secretary of U.S. Department of Interior
This amount of water could fill 945,560,000 55-gallon barrels. Assuming each barrel is 4 feet it will reach the moon over three (3) times!!! This amount of water is enough to sustain the entire Hopi population of 10,000 for over 300 years at the present rate of use
- Over 2,500 historic and pre-historic archaeological and burial sites were mapped by Peabody on their land lease area. Untold number of sites, including rock art, has been destroyed. Over 100 remains of Hopi ancestors crated and taken to distant universities to be studied.
- Respiratory problems among Navajos living down-wind from blasting areas has increased dramatically.
Siipa’puni
Planning is underway by non-Indian partners to construct Grand Canyon Escalante Resort at the confluence of Little Colorado River, outside of Grand Canyon National Park boundary on the Navajo Reservation. Visit: http://www.grandcanyoescalade.com Type: Siipapuni
“Grand Canyon Escalade, as it’s been named, would span 420 acres near the confluence, just east of Grand Canyon National Park. Its centerpiece would be the “Escalade” Gondola Tramway, carrying tourists from the Grand Canyon’s South Rim to the canyon floor. Once there, visitors could walk along a 1,400-foot elevated riverwalk to the confluence, eat at a restaurant, or visit an amphitheater and terraced grass seating area overlooking the Colorado River.” [Anne Minard, Four Corners Free Press, June 1, 2013]
Siipa’puni is one the holiest places on earth and is therefore worthy of protection. means umbilical cord in the Hopi language. Hopi people refer to it as the Place of Emergence from the Third to the Fourth World. It is their Mecca, Vatican, and their Jerusalem. It was here that the prophesized 5th World will be formed.
The project is opposed by Black Mesa Trust, Hopi Tribal Council, Zuni Tribe, and coalition of Navajo landowners and grazing permit holders who reside near the “confluence.”
Write: SAY NO TO MINING AND ESCALADE!
U.S. Secretary of Interior
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
For more information visit: www.blackmesatrust.org
E-mail: Vernon Masayesva, Black Mesa Trust Executive Director at kuuyi@aol.com
