Museums Harboring Thousands of Apache Ancestors

Geronimo 1866

Museums Harboring Thousands of Apache Ancestors

By Brenda Norrell

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Jan. 29, 2023

Spanish translation by Lise Bouzidi

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/

Translated into French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7681

Museums are harboring thousands of Apaches. Twenty years ago, camped on Mount Graham, San Carlos Apache Councilman Raleigh Thompson described how Yale University's Skull and Bones Society robbed the grave of Geronimo at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Now, a new database reveals that ancestors of Apaches -- including San Carlos Apache, Mescalero Apache, Fort Sill Apache and Apache Tribe in Oklahoma -- are being held in museums and have not been made available for return, as required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Apache Stronghold Sacred Run to Oak Flat Feb. 16 -- 19, 2023

Apache Stronghold Sacred Run Feb. 16 -- 19, 2023

By Apache Stronghold

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Friends!

The Apache Stronghold invites you and your family to the 9th Annual Oak Flat March and Run, February 16-19, 2023. More details will be shared about this 45-mile march in the coming weeks. If you have questions about attending and participating, you can contact Vanessa Nosie (vnosie11@gmail.com) or respond to this email. Please share the Save the Date with your communities. All are welcome.

This year’s march comes in anticipation of the Apache Stronghold’s next caravan to the Ninth Circuit Court in California this March. A lawsuit to defend the right for prayer at Chi’chil Bildagoteel continues to move through the United States’ legal system. Most recently, one of the judges from the Ninth Circuit requested a full review of the case with the argument that its merits had not been given due diligence on first review. A press release sharing the powerful coalition of faith-led groups that has joined the Apache Stronghold in support is below.

Chili Yazzie -- Navajo's 'transitional energy' company is damaging the earth, encroaching on Hualapai land

             Photo courtesy Tó Nizhóní Ání Dine' protest Navajo Nation Council Chambers on Tuesday.

Chili Yazzie -- Navajo's 'transitional energy' company is damaging the earth, encroaching on Hualapai land

By Duane 'Chili' Yazzie
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To the Editor

Navajo Transitional Energy Company, Navajo Oil and Gas Company and the Navajo leadership who support them are helping to damage planet Earth. Coal mining/burning, oil/gas/hydrogen/helium development with the inevitable fracking are the greatest causes of the climate crisis. NTEC is now encroaching on Hualapai lands to do more exploitation. What happened to the energy transition NTEC was created for.

Chili Yazzie 'Relationship to Land Concepts: Who owns the land?'

Shiprock circa 1914

Relationship to Land Concepts

By Duane 'Chili' Yazzie

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There are two concepts of relationship to land, one is the belief that one can own the land, by whatever rationale, with a piece of paper to ‘prove’ land ownership. Land deeds, permits and leases are based on american law. 

The roots of Navajo government and the laws that talk about land relationship stem to 1923 when the federal government imposed a foreign way of governance on us with strange ideas of land ownership. The new government was formed, so a lease could be given to an oilman to develop oil in the Shiprock area. We did not consent to be governed by this foreign system; it was forced on us.