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  Even More A Broken Rainbow Than Before

  How tribal government can raise a hand to its own people in this way is inexplicable. There has to be something more than the pull of money at work here, like they have no heart or soul any more. Only people with no heart and soul will behave in this self-destructive way.

  Tribal Government, you are there to represent and protect the interests of the people. The people don't want this on their land, and it is your job to help them see to it that it does not come to pass. It is the people - at least in part - who put you where you are. In this way, you have a sacred covenent with the people. Presently, you are not upholding your end of the deal. Harassing little, old grandmothers is a mark of cowardice and only the truly evil will engage in this sort of behavior, for only the truly evil are without conscience. It takes a lot of energy to be evil, and this is not a well supported way of conducting oneself in the natural order of things. Those who behave this way end up paying the ultimate price for it in the end, even if that end is a long time away.

  You seem intent on following in the footsteps of the white government, selling out your own well being and that of your children for temporary, worldly gains. Can't you take a good look around you and see how miserably the white way continues to fail? Look how sickly and bad off whites are as a whole. For all their outward appearance of affluence and power, they are totally bankrupt on the inside, totally miserable atop their mountains of modernity, money and possessions, with no sense of community and no cohesive cultural identity. They are like the walking dead: dead to each other, dead to their senses, dead to their spirits. Do you really want this for yourself and your people? Haven't indigenous people suffered enough at the hands of the white way, and now at the hands of their own electorate? Is a total annihilation of ancestral lands and cultural heritage necessary for the Dineh people?

  A 25% ownership stake in the plant and a handful of temporary construction jobs does not justify further raping the Earth and her people in this way. Four hundred permanent jobs SOUNDS nice, but who will be there to work those jobs when the pool of Dineh applicants is largely ill and dying of cancer and lung disease or disabled from the damage already done in the name of coal and uranium mining? In this instance, only whites will be there to fill those positions when the Dineh are too sick to do so, giving the white government even stronger inroads to ursurping native lands. Why play into the hands of the white government's insistence on cultural genocide against native people?

  Money is such a fleeting thing and has no importance in the next world(s). The Earth does not care about money and should not be exploited in its pursuit. Humans can have every richness in life they need and desire without destroying the mother on which they are inseperably dependent. This requires a sense of respect for all living things and a willingness not to succumb to the outside pressures to become greedy and take more than what is needed to live a good, reasonably comfortable life.

  Earth gives unconditionally to all her children, yet receives little respect or reverence in return. On the part of human beings, this is shameful and represents a breakdown in the agreement we have with our Creator to honor and care for what we were given in the priviledge of being here. The truth is, we need the Earth more than she needs us.

  Because humans as a whole do not honor the basic precept of 'don't shit where you eat', we are paying for it in the form of rampant, widespread illness and dis-spiritedness that increasingly threatens the well being of everyone everywhere. Haven't your elders been warning you against this all along? When will you who hold the power take the teachings of your own elders to heart and start governing with care and respect towards the Earth and all her children instead of doing so purely in the interest of increasing the thickness that lines your wallets? The way you behave now makes you no better than the whites, who have long since destroyed their own sacred Earth ways and who continue to sell out their own in the name of worldly things. Psychologists have long recognized a pattern that often the abused grow up to become abusers themselves. It doesn't have to be this way, though.

  The irreversible damage that will be done in the construction and administration of this dis-empowerment plant is like spitting in the face of the Creator. The Creator is the one who is truly in charge of things and does not take kindly to being treated by lesser beings in this way. You who are in positions of government have no idea as to the extent of the danger you are courting in proceeding with this project.

  You still have a chance to turn back before you make things any worse for yourselves and your people. Do you have the courage to do this?

  The whole world is watching.On Navajo protest third coal-fired plant on reservation land posted 2 years, 10 months ago 3 Responses