| Show Indian Club holds fund raiser Kathryn Smith Staff Writer WriterS WriterS LIC Salt Lake Indian Club will hold a S fund raiser food and clothing drive on the Quad on May 31 from 12 noon to 2 pm p.m. Speakers will be on hand to address the issue of Navajo and Hopi Indians who are resisting relocation in Big Mountain Arizona Boxes for donated clothing and food will be placed around the campus from May 31 until June 6 6 The liThe United Nations has cited the United States for committing cultural genocide and violating human rights in dealing with the relocation of Navajos and Hopis from lands they have occupied since 1000 AD A.D. said Rose Hulligan on May 25 when she spoke to Supposedly the government has not supported supported supported sup sup- ported a policy of forced relocation yet has confiscated ninety percent of the livestock made it illegal to build or repair homes and diverted water while Peabody Coal Co a subsidiary of Standard Oil is allowed unlimited unlimited unlimited un un- un- un limited water usage According to Hulligan indigenous plants have been removed The TheAir TheAir Air Force practices low-flight low maneuvers daily Areas are arc bulldozed to build water dams The liThe amount of suicide in the area has shot up she stated In 1974 the US U.S. government interceded in ina ina a Navajo Hopi land dispute over Big Mountain Moun Moun- tain The governments government's involvement benefits Peabody Coal Co which wants the land for its quality high-quality coal said Hulligan According to the Quarterly The liThe people living in the Joint User Area are arc among the largest sufficient self-sufficient communities still existing within US U.S. boundaries They have been living in a tradition subsistence manner raising sheep and growing what they need Dr Thayer Scudder a professor of anthropology at and world expert on problems faced by relocated people predicts The liThe relocation will produce soaring death rates and psychological problems Anglos cannot understand how a person would feel such strong family and kinship ties and ties to the land so that if you move from that land sickness and death follow |
