DEFENDING
OUR FREEDOM TO WORSHIP
Against the Beast In Amerikkka
Our
heartfelt thanks to Ms. Brenda Norrell, Black Mesa Indigenous
Support, the
residents of
Black Mesa, and others for
their courage reporting and documenting
on film, in writing, and on audiotape, the blatant
violation of the
Constitutional,
Civil, and human rights of Dine'h and others who
chose to join
them in giving
thanks to Creator. Thank you for sharing this news
with us.
If Indigenous
Nations are to protect their right to worship Creator according
to
cultural tradition or as the individual sees fit, we cannot
afford to let this crime
go unanswered. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and its
"Hopi Tribal Council"
must be held accountable for their acts of terrorism. If this
happened anywhere
else in the world, the government and individuals responsible
would be labeled
as "TERRORISTS," hunted down, and punished for such a
blatant violation of
basic human rights. In the United States, however, the BIA is a
government
agency--an agency of a government that promises "liberty
and justice for all."
This makes the atrocity all the more heinous and strongly
suggests that the
nation's government has absolutely no regard for its own laws or
the welfare of
the citizens that it serves.
The destruction of
Camp Anna Mae is not only an act of terrorism, it is the same
racist hate crime as the Ku Klux Klan's burning and bombing of
black churches.
Camp Anna Mae is a holy sanctuary for the worship of Creator. By
destroying
Camp Anna Mae, the BIA has proven itself to be nothing more than
a federally
approved KKK, a racist terrorist agency--a Beast In Amerikkka.
As for the so-called
"Hopi Tribal Council (HTC)," or "Hopi
Tribe," as it calls itself,
it has brought shame and dishonor to the name "Hopi"
and to all Indigenous
Americans. If the spiritual teachings and prophecies of the Hopi
Medicine People
are to be believed, then the HTC has proven, by the destruction
of Camp Anna
Mae, that it is NOT a representative of the Hopi People, that it
is nothing more
than a tool created by Peabody Coal and the BIA to do their will
and open up
more land for Peabody to mine and the N-aquifer for unhindered
use in the coal
slurry.
SENAA International
will join with other Indigenous Americans and with other
supporters to demand that the charges of criminal trespass
against the cited
worshipers be dropped, that persecution of Dine'h and their
supporters stop, that
the BIA and HTC be made to supply the materials and labor to
rebuild the
Sundance Arbor and other destroyed structures at Camp Anna Mae,
and that
Dine'h rights to freely exercise the sacred ceremonies of their
choice and to have
fellow worshipers join them for Ceremony be honored and upheld
without
further interference from the BIA, HTC, or any other agency of
the United States
government or Peabody Coal.
Al Swilling, Founder
SENAA International
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