B O O Z E K I L L the issue published while we were really drunk The Long Struggle At Big Mountain "The white man does not understand that the Indian is bonded to their land and cannot be treated as parcels to be distributed like the U.S. mail." - Askie Betsie The struggle at Big Mountain is a one of the longest and most complex struggles in modern times. To understand the current situation we must take a look at the history which led up to the resistance today. Long before the white man ever came to the area the Dine (Navajo) and the Hopi lived near each other and were trading partners. In 1583, Spanish "explorer" Antonio de Espero reported Dine and Hopi living side by side in the so-called disputed area. In 1680, in the Pueblo Revolt both Dine and Hopi fought together to drive the Spanish out. In 1693, Spanish reoccupied all the area but Hopi land. In 1848, after the U.S./Mexican War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed and the U.S. agreed never to remove the native peoples from their land. Starting in 1849, white settlers began to flood the area and the U.S. war on the Dine thus began. Colonel Kit Carson destroyed Dine livestock and crops and forced all captured Dine on a 400 mile walk to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Thousands of Dine died on the walk and while they were imprisoned in a concentration camp. (Years later, Adolf Hitler would write in his memoirs that Jewish concentration camps in Nazi Germany were inspired by the U.S. treatment of Native Americans.) After four years of starvation in the concentration camp the Dine were forced to agree to the Navajo Treaty of 1868, which forced them onto a "reservation." In 1871 all "Indian affairs" was placed into the Dept. of Interior and a program was started to "civilize" them by kidnapping Dine and Hopi children and placing them in prison-like schools for indoctrination. There they were told that their traditional ways were bad and they were not allowed to speak their own language. In 1882, President Arthur issued an Executive Order which created the "Joint Use Area." There were three lines drawn on a map by the white government in Washington. First, the Hopi Reservation in the center, around that was the "Joint Use Area," and around that was the Navajo Reservation. At that time all the land that Indians were placed on was viewed as worthless, the government was short sighted in the creation of the "Joint Use Area" because neither Dine or Hopi were given control over the area. It was just viewed as a dumping ground for Indians who had no other place to go. But in 1909 coal was found on the Black Mesa. The companies found it very hard to sign leases so in 1923 the first Navajo Tribal Council was set up by the Dept. of Interior at the request of Standard Oil. In 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act was passed, which imposed these government controlled Tribal Councils on all Native Nations. In defiance the Dine and Hopi repeatedly disbanded their Tribal Councils. Since much of the Black Mesa coal was beneath the "Joint Use Area" the government had a problem, neither the Navajo or Hopi Tribal Councils could sign leases. So, in 1946, Mormon lawyer John Boyden was sent in to try to get a job with the Navajo Tribal Council to press a claim to lease rights in the area. He was rejected by the Dine who wanted no part in the government's plan. Then the Dept. of Interior picked Boyden to go back and settle a dispute over the land that did not exist. He organized a Hopi Tribal Council and hired himself to resolve mineral rights. In 1958 Boyden wrote P.L. 85-547 which passed Congress, this bill authorized a Boyden suit to settle the land claims. In 1962 the Boyden suit "Healing vs. Jones won and was upheld by the Supreme Court. This suit gave 1,000 square miles to the Hopi Tribal Council. In 1966 the Navajo and Hopi Tribal Councils signed the first leases for the largest coal strip mine in the U.S. with Peabody Coal. Boyden also represented Peabody in these leases. Because of the difficulty involved in passing a law to divide up the whole area, a "anger war" was fabricated by Mormon P.R. firm Evans and Associates. This was exposed by the Washington Post. Still, the plan worked. In 1974, Congress passed P.L. 93-531 which divided the area 50/50 between the two Tribal Councils. It called for the forced removal of all Indians on the "wrong side of the fence." There were about 100 Hopis and about 10,000 Dine living where the government said they could not. To help with the forced relocation, the law include a 90% livestock reduction to try to starve the Dine off their land. In 1977, U.S. District Court decreed the partition line. In 1980 P.L. 96-305 was passed which set the deadline for the forced relocation on July 6, 1986. This deadline was misunderstood by many for when the government did not move in on that date people thought the Dine had won. What the deadline really meant was that the government could move in at any time after that. Two things are important to understand: first, this has nothing to do with any dispute between the Dine and Hopi people, rather this is all about mineral development. Most of the "Joint Use Area" and most of the Hopi Reservation is within the Black Mesa mineral formation. Within time all Native People living within that formation will be in danger of losing their homes. Next, contrary to what many people think, you cannot just repeal P.L. 93-531 because there are other laws and court rulings. Peabody Coal plans to strip mine coal from the area, move the coal by rail to Dong Beach, CA, and ship it to Japan. Japan wants this coal so that they can stop buying coal from South Africa. Already Peabody has two strip mines operating on the Black Mesa, just outside of the "Joint Use Area." They produce about 12 million tons of coal annually. The coal is shipped to the Navajo Generating Station at Page, Arizona, and the Mojave Station 273 miles away. The coal to the Mojave Station is sent by slurry pipeline along the Colorado River, the water table is being lowered by this and springs are running dry. The Dine People have resisted the forced relocation. This started with Dine Elder Pauline Whitesinger confronting fencing crews in 1977. Since that time many miles of fence has been taken down. Many Dine People have been arrested and some have been beaten. In 1977 both Dine and Hopi people met with outside supporters and requested assistance. The government has continued its harassment of the Dine resisters in the form of low flying military jets, livestock reductions, a ban on all new construction, poisoned wells, the threat of military force (Reagan bragged that U.S. Marshalls and the military could complete the relocation in 30 minutes), court ordered destruction of homes (April, 1982, District Court), and a misinformation/intimidation campaign. they have also tried to force our supporters from the outside by a court ordered destruction of the structures at the Survival Camp which was set up for outside support people. While faced with the great powers of greed against them, the Dine Resistance stands strong in their fight to stay on their land. And with just a handful of outside supporters they vow to fight to the end. As Dine Elder Ruth Benally put it, "When the time comes, if we don't have any other choice we are going to use our fists. No matter how small I am, I'll fight all the way to the end. After we throw our punches, if we get clubbed to death, they will have to drag us out." The Dine Resistance needs YOUR help! You can help by organizing a support group in your area, and plugging into the Big Mountain Support Network, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464. Go out and get other organizations, churches, unions or human rights groups involved. Gather together with your friends in your home to write letters. Get this article printed in papers and newsletters. We must work together and every one of yopu are important for the forces of greed are very powerful. For the Well-Being of All [more on Big Mountain in future issues] ########################### Cultural Evolution In "Ecology, Critical Thinking, and Utopia," the author stated that humans moved from a cooperative culture to one in which domination appeared and became the norm. No reason was advanced for why that happened. Riane Eisler asserted in The Chalice and the Blade that this turn of events was associated, at least in the Mediterranean Area, with the invasions of cooperative peaceful agrarian societies by Aryan- speaking tribes which had previously developed male- dominated, militarized hierarchies in harsh environments. In a new book, Food of the Gods, Terence McKenna furnishes a different piece of the puzzle. He presents a compelling argument, backed by a lot of evidence, that psychedelic plants, especially psylocybin mushrooms, played a major role in human cultural evolution. At different doses, these fungi have a major effect on vision, sexuality and the brain's language facility. It makes perfect sense that as ancestral humans left the trees a million years ago, they began experimenting with lots of new substances in search of food and medicine, etc., and that those who ingested plants which facilitated visual acuity, language development and new forms of sexuality obtained an evolutionary advantage. Furthermore, the dissolution of "boundaries" associated with the psychedelic experience led to a lessening of an emphasis on the ego, and a more cooperative outlook ("we are all one"), a "feminization of society, which promoted a way of living based upon partnership and compatibility with nature. Such a psylocybin culture, which depended on a three-way relationship between the mushrooms, humans and herd animals (in whose waste the mushrooms grew) reached its height in the Sahara about 12,000 to 8,000 years ago, says McKenna. He presents some impressive archaeological evidence to that effect. Climatic changes which started about ten thousand years ago resulted in a drying out, and a reduced supply of mushrooms. They became reserved for occasional rituals, a purpose for which they were preserved in honey. Fermented honey turns into alcohol. This could very well have led to an increased use of alcohol as a substitute. Alcohol's effects, however, are quite different; it reinforces the ego, promoting separation and, in large doses, belligerent behavior we associate with modern "maleness." A perfect vehicle for patriarchy. Humans have continuously attempted to get back or stay in touch with our archaic psychedelic practices. The tribes which made it to the Western Hemisphere discovered other plants which had similar properties to the mushrooms they left behind in Asia, such as peyote and morning glory seeds (similar to Hawaiian Woodrose Seeds, both are organic psychedelic related to LSD, only don't eat store bought because they coat them now and you'll have a pretty shitty trip, you have to grow your own - but they're perfectly legal). Others managed to continue ingesting mushrooms. Others discovered cannabis. Judeo-Christian Western Society developed a preference for alcohol, reinforcing dominator forces, and has suppressed the use of other substances wherever it has extended itself. For example, the colonial authorities repressed in general the culture of the indigenous inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, but the use of psychoactives is the most brutally suppressed practice of all. Meanwhile, up to the mid-19th century the most widespread economic use of the colonies was for the production of legal drugs such as sugar (for alcohol), tobacco, coffee and tea. ############################### More Excerpts from a speech by Kamal Hassan of the New African People's Organization, given April 27, 1991. The Los Angeles Police Department has a long history of human rights violations against our people. One of the sparks for the start of the Watts Rebellion in 1965 was police brutality - gross human rights violations that our people were suffering as a result of racist police. The first time that the LAPD SWAT Team was used was in 1968 to attack the Black Panther Party offices on Central Avenue in Los Angeles. Over 300 policemen attacked the building, firing thousands of rounds of ammunition. They even dynamited the building from above by helicopter. Because one brother, Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt, was able to fortify the building using the skills he learned in Viet Nam, none of the 17 Panthers who were in the office were killed or harmed and they ended up being arrested. But as a result, the FBI made Geronimo Pratt a target. The Black Panthers were putting shoes on children's feet, clothes on their backs, food in their stomachs, and giving them some education. Because the United States Government and J. Edgar Hoover decided they were subversive, the Black Panthers, as we knew them then, ceased to exist. But the Ku Klux Klan is still with us. Now what does that tell you? It says something very important about where America is coming from. Because of Daryl Gates' racism and arrogance, a lot of people have focused on him as an individual, leading a movement to get him out of office. The problem is Daryl Gates represents a system which they are not indicting. It's not about an individual; it is about a system of white supremacy. A system that says no matter what, white culture, white individuals, white history is going to be supreme in this country, and anybody who is not white is not going to have any significant power or respect, and their lives aren't going to be worth anything. ############################### REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #17 we will all feel the pinch there will not be a cadillac and a 40,000 dollar home for everyone simply the planet will not bear it. What there will be is enough food, enough of the 'necessities', luxuries will have to go by the board even the poorest of us will have to give up something to live free ############################### Every check written, every credit card transaction, every transaction of money that takes place is done by computers. The same, vulnerable, computers that every hacker with self-respect say they can get into, at least according to media. Since most of the economic system of today is controlled by computers and since these computers appear to be so vulnerable, why haven't we had a second computer revolution? And I do mean revolution, not like that predictable technology advancement we had a few years ago when so many people acquired personal computers. Reports from the media makes us believe that around the world there's a lot of hackers that anytime they want to can get themselves into any system of their choice. So why haven't they already started the revolution by collapsing the economy? Either the newspapers tells us lies or the hackers isn't as good as they say they are. There is one more alternative though; the hackers might not be revolutionaries. Perhaps not even anarchists. What is then to be done? We have to educate ourselves about the enemy! About the computer systems of the enemy in particular, so we can become the dreaded anarchist hackers of the media. We can then start the true computer revolution. What would happen if the computers that controls the flow of money suddenly collapsed? For one, it would make a lot of people very angry, in particular people in very high places, but also the worker on the factory floor will be angry -- angry because his wages won't be there on pay day. The first thing that must be done is therefore to inform people about what currency really is, and that there are alternative economic systems without wage labor. This information distribution could be carried out by individuals or groups of anarchists so that when the day of the revolution, the computer revolution, comes, people will know what to expect. ############################### : OF REVENGE : : from : : SCREW UNTO OTHERS : : by : : George Hayduke : =============================== 1) Thou shalt neither trust nor confide in anyone! 2) Thou shalt never use thine own telephone for revenge business! 3) Thou shalt not touch thine form of revenge! 4) Thou shalt become a garbage collector! 5) Thou shalt bide thy time before activating a revenge plot! 6) Thou shalt secure a "mail-drop" address in another city! 7) Thou shalt learn everything there is to learn about the victim! 8) Thou shalt pay cash all the time in a revenge! =============================== Now, as around about him. BE DISCREET!! Only ask CLOSE friends.. or just kinda slip it into a conversation.. and sit back while people tell you all about him (especially his enemies!) Grab yerself a phone book.. Hopefully, you have a ROUGH idea where he lives.. Look him up.. and try to narrow it down. Ex- Yer huntin down a kid named Ralph Norwieg.. Well.. look up Norwieg.. WHAT?!! 30 entries.. Hmm.. he lives SOMEWHERE in Liverpool.. that leaves 10.. Now call em all, and ask for Ralph, you should end up with one or 2.. with luck.. you can figure out which is him just by his voice.. Or a "POLL". "Excuse me, how many high school students live here?, and their names?" (that one ALWAYS works..) Now you know his Phone # and address.VORITE biotoxin, and eat lunch with him someday. Take him up to McDonalds.. Ask him "Tell me what you want, My treat.. just go find a table" You order his shit, and when NOBODY is looking, dump the little vial (MAKE SURE it is a POWERFUL poison.. so that it does NOT take much to KILL!!!) onto his food. Now.. This is VERY important.. Eat with him.. make sure HE gets the poisoned food(duh!) Don't act all jittery, or scared.. just act natural. Start a conversation even.. Sooner or later, the poison gets to him.. Now this is VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Say ,no, YELL "OH MY GOD!! Ralph? Ralph?" (start shaking his shoulder) "QUICK! Somebody call an ambulance!!, RALPH.. SPEAK TO ME!!,, Oh my god.. He didn't deserve to die" Make sure you show up at the funeral.. Cry a lot.. bring lotsa flowers.. The cops will NEVER suspect you..AND DON'T brag about it!! Ya gotta act like yer best friend just died.. ############################### buzzkill classifieds --buzzkill meetings are now and then, call 486-7657 for more information. send donations, letters, poetry, submissions etc. to: buzzkill, 360 E Edith Ave., SLC, UT 84111 --Utah Activist Network meets every monday, 7 p.m. at Cafe Mediterranean (542 E 400 S). call 534-3322 Wild Utah Earth First! meets every monday, 7 p.m., at Cafe Mediterranean (542 E 400 S). 575-6331, p.o. box 510442, SLC, UT 84151 --salt lake IWW meets on the third saturday of each month. call 485-1969 for more info. p.o. box 520514, SLC, UT 84152-0514 --Utah Peace Test meets on the third thursday of each month, 7:00, at the Quaker meeting house (161 E 2nd Ave) call 596-1905 for more info, p.o. box 11416, SLC, UT 84147 --for more info call about Food Not Bombs call 486-7657