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Subject: Re: American Indians - Persecution of?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 13:24:00 EDT
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>	It remains to be seen if the Navajo culture can survive
>the relocation.  I seriously doubt that it will.
>
>-- 
>scc!steiny
>Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 
>109 Torrey Pine Terrace
>Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060
>(408) 425-0382

	I cannot believe that all the Navajo culture will disappear
with the relocation of the Navajo from the Big Mountain area.

	The Navajo culture will endure, it is the individual Navajo
and Hopi whose families must move that suffer.

	The Hopi have vacated the area which is now in the hands of
the much larger Navajo tribe.  Sove Navajo families have not vacated
the area which should, by act of congress, be in the hands of the Hopi.
The number of families to be relocated is somewhere between 250 and 
850.  The federal government estimates 250, the Navajo leaders estimate
850, the real number is probably somewhere between.

	BTW, the Hopi are farmers and as such are not generally in
favor of strip mining.  The Navajo have strong religious ties to the 
land and as such are not generally in favor of strip mining.  Who 
said that the area will be strip mined?

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