Agreed 100% !
I'm leary of any environmental group that wants to use Indian rights
issues to furthur their own political agenda. I think this is happening
now, and will be happening more often in the future with the continued
degradation of the environment.
It's an insult and it's phony.
danny ammon
ammon@neon.stanford.edu
ps: I am not saying all environmental groups use Indians for their own agenda.
[ Danny, who is a Native American student at Stanford, also expressed some
doubts about Pat's idea of polling people on the Hopi reservation during
her upcoming visit there in an article he sent yesterday, which I lost,
thinking he had intended to send it only to Pat, to whom I did forward it.
However, I, for one, would like to encourage Pat in that project. I know
it would be difficult to make it scientific, but I think the results might
still be very interesting. I'm sure Pat would report her results accurately,
whatever her feelings about the matter of what the Hopi people feel about
the issue of the land dispute and whether it is only a question of the U.S.
government and the Peabody coal company attempting to exploit both the
Hopis and the Navajos.
I had a brief phone chat with Pat yesterday that left me feeling that
there's a lot more involved here than what we've been getting from the
news accounts posted by Michele Lord, Wolfgang Steinhauer, Oliver Kluge,
and others. I hope that we can each do some research on our own, and
use this forum to "compare notes" on our results. This is a very im-
portant subject for a number of reasons, and I don't think superficial
analyses serve anyone's best interests.
-- Gary ]