Broken Rainbow - Part 1 of 7

On December 1974 Congress passed Public Law 93-531 "The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act". It authorized the partitioning of the Joint Use Area (JUA) and established the Navajo-Hopi
Indian Relocation Commission (NHIRC) which moved Navajo people from the reservation lands. Countless of the most traditionally and culturally intact Dineh (Navajo) people were forced to re-locate to cities like Shiprock and Tuba City.

This 1985 documentary traces the history of both tribes and the events that led to this devastating land grab by Peabody Coal and Bechtel Corporations, assisted by our own government(major players included Barry Goldwater,Morris Udall,John McCain, and President Ford). The goal: access to coal and uranium resources.

Narrators include Martin Sheen, Buffy
Sainte-Marie and Burgess Meredith.

This documentary won the 1986 Best Documentary Academy Award, but you'd be hard pressed to find it in video stores or on-line.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Native
• American
• Hopi
• Dineh
• Dine
• Navajo
• Land
• Dispute
• Peabody
• Coal
• Bechtel
• Corporation
• PL
• 93-531
• Relocation

[doriannlee]

Wow...I just saw my aunt Clinton...that plateau looked like a peyote button. We are still suffering...how many of my family members have I had to say goodbye to due to complications/diseases from the deadly mineral deposits that were disturbed?

[Morningwasichu]

@doriannlee

I feel with you. The wholesale destruction of indigenous people and their lands has gone global since this movie came out. The challenges seem insurmountable, but they're not. The spirits know. Those of us who chose spiritual paths that support mother nature will win in the long run, regardless of circumstances or the pains we experience. Yours have been far worse than mine.

Our good hearts and love for creation will carry us into the next world, where the real powers reside.

[dineblessing]

Ugh this movie made me cry!!!! I feel so bad becuz my families stuck between 2 walls. My dad works for peabody and were very traditionl. But we do need peabody on the rez becuz thats how many families get there income but once the mine's all close down what are we gonna do? Many families are gonna be without money but then again were ruining mother earth. Its hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Its a good and bad thing. In beauty we may walk.

Faith, hope, and charity,

[Morningwasichu]

@dineblessing

Yes, I do understand. The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill tells us the same story. The people there have had their whole lives destroyed, yet many of them are begging BP NOT to stop drilling, because without their jobs they will have no future income. The "divide and conquer" strategy has evolved so that now we are now begging for the crumbs left after livelihoods have been destroyed by the very same actors. In bed with the devil. It wears heavily on our conscience.

[dovevabear]

this is how media rolls...the native voice is always silenced, glossed over or considered of no consiquence....however I believe in karma

[Morningwasichu]

@dovevabear

I do too, Dovebear.

[53497678]

greed, greed and more greed!!!

native people bow to God and treasure the land...politicans and corporations bow to money and screw the land ...that is the diference. GOvernment gave them the land it is theirs so back off!!!

[asieh100]

it is a sad reality that to conquer a people you must try to remove all that is sacred to these people. This is your land which should remain with you. The interests of those who seek to despoil and rob these holy lands always try to push you from what is rightfully yours. I am not Native American but i am filled with revulsion that people can be treated so bad. American history=a bloody legacy of oppression and conquest. God help us to learn from the past.

[maii84dine]

I'm at school sitting in front of my computer crying. :'(

[nodlon20]

This is horrible. I cried watching this. We will all pay for this soon. We cannot continue damaging the planet for fossil fuels, and nuclear fuel is also FOSSIL FUEL, Uranium has to be mined. Why can't we all live simple? Why do we need all these materials contraptions. Even this computer I am using, what did we do before we had them? We spent time doing other things! Why can't we get energy from the sun and the wind?? We need to live with nature NOT against her! God help us all.

[windstorm1000]

@EthanCole15 Just to let you know, there are SOME whites who are supportive of native issues (and want to help), and recognize that great wrongs were done to native people for over 400 years.

[windstorm1000]

as long as this country continues to denynative land theft, it will continue to operate under a cloud.

[windstorm1000]

as long as this country continues to live in denial of land theft from natives, it will remain under a cloud and suffer from cultural karma.

[windstorm1000]

I saw this filmwhen it first came out.  And the US govt still is playing it's destructive games to Native people--they are just doing it more subtly this time.

[SKUd1986]

We Navajos belong to the Athabascans of Canada & Alaska, the hopi's belong to the Uto-Aztecans of Nahuan, Mexico.

[Scum71succer]

nvmI got my answer atabout 7.07,I should learn to be more patient

[Scum71succer]

I don't understand the Hopiseemto be okay with it the Navajo seemto be okey with it why did they have to move?....perhaps I shoud watch the full thing first but I was just wondering

[hopiboy12]

Oh and to add on that comment wht do you Hopis should leave Dine people alone!? Were not doing anything to you! Its the white people!! Not Hopis.