Part IV
MARSHA MONESTERSKY GETS NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDER OF EXCLUSION
I wanted to let you know that I just received a Notice of Proposed
Order of
Exclusion from the Hopi Tribe on Friday, June 18, 1999. This
is the same
Order of Exclusion that was given to Kee Shay. When I saw him
yesterday,
Saturday, June 19, he said, "We are in this together."
I believe that this Order was served to me in an effort to
weaken the Dineh
resisters response to the actions being perpetuated against them,
including
the response recently submitted by Kee Shay.
Leonard Benally from Big Mountain agrees. He says, "Kee
Shay is handicapped,
hard of hearing and an elder traditional. He is supposed to be
respected and
doesn't know anything of the laws that violate him. He did not
even spend 1
day in school. He was on this land long ago, long before our
land was called
HPL. We have been living here for centuries. The Hopi tribe
and the BIA
just treats us like we are from somewhere else. The Hopi tribe
and the BIA
are just preying on people. They are predators picking off my
people one by
one. We have a right to live here. We all drink one water, breath
one air
and have one land here. We are all one."
When I told Leonard that I just received a Notice of Proposed
Order of
Exclusion, he said, "We need your help, since the Hopi and
Navajo tribes and
the US government does not care about us. I guess this means
that you are
one of us, illegal like we are. We will all probably get these
Exclusion
Orders so we are all in this together." This is the same
sentiment expressed
by May Shay, Kee Shay's wife who said upon hearing about my Notice
of
Proposed Order of Exclusion said, "We'll just do a tug-of-war
with the Hopi
police for you. Who else is going to help us? We want you here
with us."
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please contact: Wayne Taylor, Chairman, The Hopi Tribe, P.O.
Box 123,
Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039, Phone: (520) 734-3000.
Please help.
Thank you,
Marsha Monestersky