DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FourCorners</span></a> Area Crucial</p><p>The Hopi prophecies warned that the white men or &quot;<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pahana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pahana</span></a>&quot; would come to their land and try and lead them into evil ways. The Hopi were told that they must hold onto their tradition and their land, though always without violence. If they succeeded, their land would become a center from which Spirit would be reawakened, resonating throughout the world.</p><p>Frank Waters, author of &quot;The Book of the Hopi,&quot; wrote in 1963 that &quot;when the &#39;heart&#39; of the Hopi land trust is dug up, great disturbances will develop in the balance of nature, for the Hopi holy land is the microcosmic image of the entire planet; any violations of nature in the Four Corners region will be reflected and amplified all over the Earth,&quot; and that what is dug up there (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uranium</span></a>) would be used for destructive purposes. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThomasBanyacya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThomasBanyacya</span></a> also wrote of the Four Corners area: &quot;Great Spirit told Hopi [that Four Corners is] the backbone of the United States. Hopi must hold land till Human Beings live in harmony.&quot;</p><p>This sacred area is being strip-mined for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coal</span></a> and uranium, reducing the water table and causing radioactive pollution. According to Quail Littlefield of &quot;People Concerned with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>,&quot; recent discoveries show that the Four Corners area is not only rich in coal and uranium, but is also a main source of positive and negative ions in the atmosphere. It is also said to be one of the few key focal centers in the world where the energy current must be kept in balance to maintain a life-giving biosphere. According to some Hopi Elders, if this center is disrupted, then the atmosphere will become unstable and all life will perish.</p><p>The Hopi and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Navajo</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dine</span></a>) have co-existed peacefully on these lands (Four Corners) for many generations. A &quot;range war&quot; was fabricated to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BIA</span></a>], through the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HopiTribalCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HopiTribalCouncil</span></a>, to grant exclusive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mining</span></a> rights to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> Company, which called for the eviction of Navajo elders to an area that is barren and 60 miles downstream from uranium-poisoned waters. Forcible removal of the Elders begins in February, 2000.</p><p>Hopi Elders Thomas Banyacya and Grandfather <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DanEvehema" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DanEvehema</span></a>, as well as many others, have opposed this forced relocation. People from not only the United States but all over the world have sent letters to Janet Reno, and other government officials to stop this eviction, which violates the American Indian Religious Freedom Act 17 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act 18. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountainResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigMountainResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HopiProphecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HopiProphecy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Koyaaniqatsi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Koyaaniqatsi</span></a></p>