From Bahe Katney to the Big Mountain List

Greetings Supporters,

This is just a brief flash about what I have learned about the blockade
by
the police agencies, and my brief comments.

As of yesterday, the BIA-Hopi Agency police along with the Ariz. States'
Navajo County Sheriff department has set-up a road block at the dirt road
turn-off at Highway 264. This junction is the to the Dinnebito Dam which
leads up into the eastern area of Big Mountain. According to individuals
who've been turned back by this police blockade, they said their cars were
searched, vechicle registration check, and their records were checked.
After this, they were told to leave the area and return home and if they
make any other attempts of re-entering the area they will be arrested.
Other Sundance participants and supporters were still heading into the
area of Camp Anna Mae despite the confirmed blockade. It is not confirmed
yet as to if there is a blockade near the entrance into the dance site,
but it is very likely there is since on Monday nearly 8 police vechicle,
composing of State and BIA law enforcement personnel, were gathered near
the entrance of the Sundance.

These two 'check-points' has been active since last week which also
monitored the first Sundance activity. Just yesterday some non-Indian
supporters, at the request of the family sponsors of the Sundance, met
with the BIA-Hopi Agency and were told that the road block will not allow
any outside participants or supporters for the Camp Anna Mae Sundance to
enter, no matter if they are Indian or not.

This is the type of Human Rights violations that the BIA-Hopi Tribal
Council and the United States government is guilty of, and they are
getting a way with it. The northern Arizona media have stated before,
"We're not interested." As Lakota Sundance Chief Leonard Crow Dog said
at
the first Big Mountain Sundance last week, "There is no legal precedents
that supposely allows this type of restriction on the Red People's way
of worship. The federal government nor any BIA-Indian tribal government
has any right to regulate 'when' or 'how' we, traditional people, are to
pray, sing, take our medicine, and conduct our ceremonies."

Lakota Sundance Chief Joe Chasing Horse who heads the Camp Anna Mae dance,
stated also while showing his solidarity with the first Sundance event
last week, "We, the Red People, are in a new era of struggle in fighting
the injustices that is occurring all across our reservations. This
police-seige on Camp Anna Mae is just an example of the types of
injustices that are attempting to eliminate or do away with the ancient
knowledge that gives us ties to Mother Earth. They have taken most of our
lands, and now they want to dismantled the backbone of our survival, the
Indian religion."

Concerning the BIA-Hopi Agency denial of this summer's permit to conduct
the dance, Chief Chasing Horse said, "We will have the Sundance because
it
is our religious obligation set forth last summer. Like my grandfather,
Chief Crazy Horse, once believed that he didn't recognized the authority
of the US Calvary when they told him that the Black Hills did belong to
his people anymore. I shall, too, not acknowledge the authority of the
BIA
laws that we are to have a simple sheet of paper that is suppose to allow
us to pray and dance."

Chief Crow Dog agreed, "I want to tell you my nephew, Chief Chasing Horse,
that I shall be there to follow you and support you in completing this
religious obligations. Aho!"

On behalf of the resistance, let us first pray for a good direction as
we
journey together on this sacred road of Humanity. Then, let us send as
many faxes or phones calls to the agencies responsible for this violations
of the Geneva Convention on the freedom to conduct religious activities
accordance to tribal leaders or community leaders. Responsible agencies
includes the State of Arizona's county sheriffs. This response needs to
be
done in the next few days for that this Sundance will conclude on Sunday
without many dancers and their guest/supporters.

Thank you for your time.

In the Spirit of Chief Barboncito, Bahe
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