Stop the Human Rights Violations waged against the traditional Dineh elders and resisting families of Big Mountain Arizona. When Big Mountain residents went to apply for a wood permit the application was denied. They were then threatened by Hopi Tribal Rangers with arrest if caught gathering wood. They also were told that if wood was found at the homes of resisting families it would be confiscated and the residents would be arrested and taken to jail. The resisters are primarily Elder Grandmothers and their families.
Some elders are alone or with little support.
The call has been made for people to come and bear witness to the human rights violations occurring right now at Big Mountain, Arizona. Internationally people must defend the Dineh's rights to live on their ancestral lands. The multi-national corporations backed by the United States Government, Navajo, Hopi Tribal Governments are subjecting Elderly Women and Children to extreme injustice in order to secure the expansion of ecological devastation via strip mining coal. They are forcibly withholding vital life sustaining heat and cooking materials from these families. We must stop the harassment and forcible relocation, aka genocide of the traditional Dineh resisters.