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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">HI Olivia, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">I do not see a link here.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> Can you please post it.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas"> Having spent much time on the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Navajo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> reservation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">I understand that the press often spins the story in an bad light. The politics between the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Navajos</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">H</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">opis are intense and the tribal leaders don't represent</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the wishes of most traditional people. The tribal government</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">was</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> put in place</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">by the US Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to control and contain the Native Americans</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">and extract</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> resources from the reservation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">n the case of the Navajo and Hopi's</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">there is a lot of coal and uranium that is at stake</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> and highly desired.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">So</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the tribal</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">leaders</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> might not want</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">to support</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">environmentalists, while the more traditional people living the older ways want help protecting the environment. I was welcomed out there 20 years ago to help fight d</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">estruction of sacred sites, dewatering and ridiculous coal and uranium mining. Also the there is a bunch of environmental work being done in coalition with enviro groups to prote</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ct the water (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.blackmesawatercoalition.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Consolas">black mesa water coalition</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">), transition to sustainable energy (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.jtalliance.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Consolas">Just Transition</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">) and protecting sacred s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ites and the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">environment</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ienearth.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Consolas">Indigenous Environmental Network</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">am</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">currently</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">working on an ethnobotanical garden with traditional Navajo's and have felt like my</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">environmental</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> ethics are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> very</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> welcom</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">e.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Having facilitated and created multiple</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">coalitions</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> between native</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">peoples and environmentalist, I have seen</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">amazing success stories and I have seen</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">ignorance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">arrogance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">of on the part of environmentalist</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">insult and thwart shared goals</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">. I advise that environmentalist listen quietly and get educated on the issues before making assumptions or taking action</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">. And this also means understan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ding how the media portrays Indians as well as our own</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">stereotypes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Native</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">American</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">s.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Respectfully, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Jolie Lonner Egert</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">P.S. Navajo means</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">thief</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> and was a name given to the tribe</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">by others. The Tribe calls</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">themselves</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> the Dine</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">h, meaning the People</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> (Pronounced Di</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">n AY)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Jolie Lonner Egert</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org [<A HREF="mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org">mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org</A>] On Behalf Of Olivia Kwong<BR>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:41 AM<BR>
To: native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<BR>
Subject: [PCA] NEWS: Hopi, Navajos say environmentalists not welcome</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Hopi, Navajos say environmentalists not welcome</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer -- Wed Sep 30, 7:31 pm ET</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">See the link above for the full article text.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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