Pauline Whitesinger
P.O. Box 1073
Hotevilla, AZ 86030

December 16, 1999

To: The Hon. Eldridge Coochise
Hearing Officer
Hopi Tribe
8565 W. Granada Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85037

Re: The Hopi Tribe Petitioner vs. Marsha Monestersky, Respondent in the Hopi
Tribe Exclusion Process, Hopi Indian Reservation, Kykotsmovi, AZ

Support Statement for Marsha Monestersky

Dear The Hon. Eldridge Coochise,

From my point of view, I want to make a statement that I have known Marsha
Monestersky for several years. She has helped Dineh people at Big Mountain
and vicinity. We had no Consultant to do paper work for us. She has helped
a lot of people with their problems. That is how I know her. We probably
have educated people but they don’t want to come forward to step in the mud
with us. That is the condition here.

There is nobody that can meet Marsha’s credentials. That was how it was
before she came here to this area. Our livestock were being impounded and we
could do nothing about it but to look at which way they went to the stock
yard. We have witnessed Marsha help release animals from impoundment for the
people from this area. That is what I witness here. If she is excluded
there would be nobody else to replace her because of her credentials.

Marsha has been adopted by the Navajo people because her heart and complexion
is like mine. We feel that she is a part of Navajo descendents from a long
time ago. That is why we don’t feel that she should go. The white people
have divided the Indigenous people all over. The white people had destroyed
my people with white man’s education. We’re not of any other descent but the
Navajo people. And the white people are foreigners that are about to starve
us to death.

We are being told that we are affected by the Hopi tribe but I see my own
Navajo people working against me. You use our own people because our people
have endurance. I support all Indigenous causes. You probably know that I
do. You don’t use your own Hopi language to attack us. You use the English
language and white man’s laws to attack us. And that is what ruined you.
You teach in the schools that you will be smart and survive if you know the
English language but now I know that it is the opposite. That is how I look
at it.

I am Dineh and I speak Dineh language. That is all I have to say.

Yours sincerely,

Pauline Whitesinger

Translated and witnessed by: ______________________________
Bonnie Whitesinger