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| Western Navajo Nation at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Save the Confluence Photo by Jake Dykinga |
Diné Citizens and Water Protectors Walk to PROTECT DINÉTAH
A Silent March and Press Conference on April 22, 2025
WINDOW ROCK, Arizona – March to Protect Dinétah is organized by a collective of Diné citizens, and community groups, concerned about the President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation Council’s neglect to prioritize Navajo Water and failure to protect it from continued waste and pollution by industry.
This collective of Diné citizens will march in Window Rock on Earth Day under the banner “Protect Dinétah, Protect Navajo Water.” This collective message will be brought to the Navajo Nation Council Chambers during the 25th Navajo Nation Council Spring Session Day 2.
March to Protect Dinétah is organized by a collective of Diné citizens, and community groups, concerned about the President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren’s and Navajo Nation Council’s neglect to prioritize Navajo Water and failure to protect it from continued waste and pollution by industry
Media event during the 25th Navajo Nation Council Spring Session.
WINDOW ROCK, Arizona – March to Protect Dinétah is organized by a collective of Diné citizens, and community groups, concerned about the President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation Council’s neglect to prioritize Navajo Water and failure to protect it from continued waste and pollution by industry.
This collective of Diné citizens will march in Window Rock on Earth Day under the banner “Protect Dinétah, Protect Navajo Water.” This collective message will be brought to the Navajo Nation Council Chambers during the 25th Navajo Nation Council Spring Session Day 2.
The “March to Protect Dinétah” participants will reach the Navajo Nation Council Chambers shortly before 10:00 a.m. MDT, where their press conference will begin at 10:00 a.m. and end by 12:00 p.m. MDT.
This event will coincide with Day 2 of Spring Session which is themed “Our Power, Our Planet” which is fitting for this rally as grassroots speaker will share a brief statement regarding their issue and protections envisioned of the various environmental impacts affecting Dinétah (the Navajo homeland), such as coal mining and reclamation, uranium hauling, uranium cleanup and remediation, oil and gas production, the proposed hydrogen pipeline project, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Utilization (CCUS), and demanding the Navajo Nation strength its communication and planning on existing projects such as tribal parks with communities that play host to these projects.
This event will coincide with Day 2 of Spring Session which is themed “Our Power, Our Planet” which is fitting for this rally as grassroots speaker will share a brief statement regarding their issue and protections envisioned of the various environmental impacts affecting Dinétah (the Navajo homeland), such as coal mining and reclamation, uranium hauling, uranium cleanup and remediation, oil and gas production, the proposed hydrogen pipeline project, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Utilization (CCUS), and demanding the Navajo Nation strength its communication and planning on existing projects such as tribal parks with communities that play host to these projects.
Media Advisory
Leona Morgan, Haul No!
Delores Wilson-Aguirre, Save the Confluence
Adrian Herder, Black Mesa resident
Delores Wilson-Aguirre, Save the Confluence
Adrian Herder, Black Mesa resident
1 comment:
I wish I could attend Walk to Navajo Council on Tuesday, April 22, 25 Protect Dinetah Citizens and Water Protectors in Window Rock. Mining of Uranium at the Grand Cyn is dangerous & at Pinyon Plaine Mine. I distrust mining trucks travelling on the Rez with their trucks. If an accident happened where uranium spills....Again what would the Energy Fuels, Inc do. Clean it up or not?! Not Care. After this history of uranium mining that has happened on the Navajo Rez which gave some Dine' people cancer and still has not been cleaned up. Because we're Natives & bilagana does not care. What's it to them? They do not get cancer. It's already been on Dine'tah land a lot of times. It matters. With oil pipe lines spills happen, which ruins the land, animals and water_That's what Standing Rock was about? With this Trump pov of not caring about the land, cutting down trees, etc.....useless. Dine' have watch out for ourselves and not the trucks driving through Navajo Rez from Pinyon Plaine Mine to Blanding Utah. I know about history of mining uranium on the Navajo land when the Fed Govt wanted to develop the nuclear atomic bomb at Alamagordo. The feature film "Oppenheimer"was about the man who developed it; however the Natives were not mentioned_how the bomb tests in Alamogrodo affected the surrounding tribes. Some members of Dine' tribe mined the uranium mines....Dine' caught cancer. Still not cleaned up on Navajo land. In Oppenheimer, Natives were called "those Indians....that's it. This should be taken seriously in New Mexico, but..... Another strike against us. I've had enough of this from mining companies from all over the world what they perform on the land, the animals, the plants, the air and water + other living things. This happens on Native lands in U.S. and Canada and rest of the Americas. Stop it. Repect our Earth!
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