From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Columbus memorial to be built on Apache ground
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:48:22 GMT

/** arts.activism: 51.0 **/
** Topic: Observatory Invades Sacred Burial **
** Written  2:51 pm  Apr  7, 1992 by mschwarzman in cdp:arts.activism **
This is posted by Mat Schwarzman, from a flyer received April 1,
1992:

Dear Friends,

     "I did not know then how much ws ended there.  When I
     look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can
     still the butchered women and children lying heaped and
     scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when
     I saw them with my eyes still young.  And I can see
     that something else died there in the bloody mud, and
     buried in the blizzard.  A people's Dream died there. 
     It was a beautiful Dream... the Nations hoop is broken
     and scattered..."
                                             Black Elk

The Vatican City and the University of Arizona, with the help of
other institutions, are building on DZIL NCHAA SI AN, the Sacred
Ground of the Apache nation, an observatory, as a monument to
Columbus.  The monument will commemorate the 500th anniversary of
the "discovery" of this continent.  Please write a letter to
express your opposition to this new attack on our people.  You
may wish to mention the many statements of His Holiness, Pope
John Paul II, on the value of Native people's cultures and
religions, on his pleas that all of us respect and protect them
(there are many of these statements!).

Following, some the addresses you may want to use:

THE VATICAN CITY:

     Pope John Paul II
     c/o Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan
     Apostolic Nunciature
     3339 Massachusetts Ave., NW
     Washington, DC 20008
     Phone:  Pope - 011 396 698 5266
             Nuncio - (202)333-7121

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

     Dr. Manuel Pacheco, President
     University of Arizona
     Tucson, AZ 85721
     Phone:  (602)287-2526 or 255-4086

ITALY:

     Dr. Franco Pacini, Director
     Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory
     c/o Ambassador Rinaldo Petrignami
     Italian Embassy
     1601 Fuller St., NW
     Washington, DC 20009
     Phone:  011 39 552 7521
             (202)328-5500

GERMANY:

     Dr. Heinz Riesenhuber
     Federal Minister of Research and Technology
     Heinemannstr. 2
     5300 Bohn 2
     Federal Republic of Germany
     Phone:  228-59-3601

     Dr. Hans Zacher, President
     Max Planck Institute
     c/o Ambassador Juergen Ruhfus
     Germany Embassy
     4645 Reservoir Rd., NW
     Washington, DC 20007-1998
     Phone:  011 49 89 21081
             (202)298-4000

To get more information, to send your support, and to send copies
of letters sent to dignitaries, write to:

                    Apache Survival Coalition
                    P.O. Box 11814
                    Tucson, AZ 85734

The Inkas and the Mochika of this continent offered, in the XV
Century, witness to the respect to each other's cultures and
religions.

Prayerfully thinking of them, my foreparents,

Pio Celestino


REFUGIO DEL RIO GRANDE
P.O. Box 901
Harlingen, TX 78551
February 10-11, 1992



For information regarding resolutions put forth by Apaches
concerning this issue, send an e-mail request to 'mschwarzman'
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