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Roberta Blackgoat Flagstaff Arizona protest of Peabody water slurry Photo Brenda Norrell (c) |
Navajo, Hopi and Lakota delegation warned Lehman Brothers of consequences of mining sacred Black Mesa
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News copyright
French translation by Christine Prat at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3378
French translation by Christine Prat at:
The following article is being republished following Peabody Coal's bankruptcy this week.
In 2001, a delegation of Navajo, Hopi and Lakota stood united before Peabody Coal stockholders in New York and challenged the corporate monster.
Most of the delegation are now in the Spirit World. Arlene Hamilton bought two stocks in Peabody Coal in order for the delegation to address the stockholders. As a result, Arlene said her life was threatened. She died in a car accident. Roberta Blackgoat, known around the world for resisting relocation, died during the time of Hamilton’s memorial. Leonard Benally, longtime resistor with his sister and brother Louise and John Benally on Big Mountain, and Arlene’s husband, died of illness.
Those who stood together in New York included Hopi and Lakota elders.
NEW YORK -- A delegation of Navajo, Hopi and Lakota warned Lehman
Brothers stockholders of the dire consequences of their actions in
2001. In a rare move, censored by most media, the Navajo, Hopi and
Lakota delegation warned Lehman Brothers, after it acquired the
financial interests of Peabody Coal, of the spiritual consequences of
mining coal on sacred Black Mesa and the aftermath of Peabody Coal's
machinations that led to the so-called Navajo Hopi Land Dispute.
Later, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy.