The Hon. Eldridge Coochise
Hearing Officer
Hopi Tribe
December 28, 1999
Page 2
Support Letter for Marsha Monestersky
We dont know where to go and our own tribe does not help
us. There is no
where else for us to go. The only place we can stay is in Big
Mountain. I,
Ruth Benally am a Medicine Woman and I pray to the mountains,
hills, trees,
plants where I live. There are many sacred sites where I pray
and do my
ceremonies. Just like the Hopi pray, I am the same. I do my ceremonies.
I
want to continue to do this and not be distrubed. It has to be
where I live
in Big Mountain because I know the land and the land knows me.
If we have to continue without Marsha, who will be like her
to give the news
to the whole world. There is no one else that can do this. She
is the only
one that has worked doing this in all the years she has been here.
But we do
know if she continues to work for us we will win. All this time
she has been
here for us. There is no one else.
We would like to continue the computer work and internet and
we do not want
it to be stopped. This past summer the Hopi Tribe said no more
Sun Dance in
Big Mountain but even though the Hopi Tribe says no we did it
anyway. After
our meeting with the Hopi Tribe that time they fed us and we ate
with them.
That is the way it should be but we should not have to fight so
hard for
everything we believe in. But we are determined to remain on our
land and in
order for us to do this we want Marsha to continue to remain here
and help us.
Please let Marsha Monestersky stay. This is what we want.
Yours sincerely,
Irene Benally