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Black Mesa mines: Native Americans demand return of their ancestors’ bones

Black Mesa mines: Native Americans demand return of their ancestors' bones | Environment | The Guardian. In 1967 the Peabody coal company came to the Navajo and Hopi reservations in northern Arizona and Utah to excavate a strip mine – but the land it leased from the tribes was on an ancient tribal burial ground. […]

Navajo Hopi Land Office director says Hopi police/rangers dressed in SWAT gear

About 70 Navajo people, many of them elders, walked peacefully from the Window Rock, Ariz., mini-mall to the Navajo Nation Council chambers. It took the group about 1.5 hours to reach the chambers because some of the elders were using canes. It has been the elders that were the focus of surprise livestock roundups by […]