From: "Marsha Monestersky" <mmonestersky@hotmail.com>
Subject: Alert: Dineh elder gets 5-day notice and Appeal funds
for hay
& feed
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:17:00 MST
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URGENT APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR HAY AND FEED TO BIG MOUNTAIN SUPPORTERS
As you are aware, the Dineh people are currently under seige
by the BIA.
Please send money for hay and feed for animals so the Dineh can
keep their
animals in the corral in order to avoid impoundments.
This money can be sent to Steve Sugarman our fiscal agent.
Steve Sugarman, Executive Director
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
20110 Rockport Way
Malibu, CA 90265-5340
Telephone: (310) 456-3534
E-mail: SEE8541@aol.com
Please make your check payable to Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN)
and earmark
the funds for hay and feed for animals
Thanks,
Marsha
TEXT OF 5-DAY NOTICE
John and Rena Lane came to Kaibeto this morning with this 5-day notice
If it is possible please continue calling, faxing and writing
letters to
the BIA. Also, if you can please travel to Black Mesa to support
the elders
and their animals.
At the current time we, Glenna Begay, Leonard Benally and I
are in Germany
meeting with politicans in Hamburg, Berlin, and Bonn to put pressure
on
the State Department.
The text of the letter follows:
B.I.A.
Hopi Agency
P O Box 158
Keams Canyon, AZ. 86034
Hopi Partitioned Lands
(520) 738-2249
John & June Lane, P.O. Box 589, Tonalea, AZ 86044. Census
No. 80538/71265,
receive a "Five Day Notice Letter". Dated Apr 22 1999.
Certified Mail
number: z 189 336 924.
On 4/19/99. employees of the Hopi Agency, Bureau of Indian
Affairs observed
5 Hereford Cross Cows, 1 Steer branded -N C/HH grasing in Range
Unit 253
Hopi Partitioned Lands.
According to our records and/or Navajo Brand Book, this brand
is registered
in your name. The animal (s) is/are on the above described land
without
proper authorization and is/are in trespass.
If the animal(s) is/are not removed from the Hopi Partitioned
Lands within
(5) days upon the receipt of the notice, it is/they are subject
to impoundment.
This notice is valid for one (1) year from the date of receipt
of this
notice.
Sincerely,
Fred Chavez
Superintendent