Broken Rainbow - Part 7 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-locateto 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
• Distpute
• Peabody
• Coal
• Bechtel
• Corporation
• PL
• 93-531
• Relocation

[Morningwasichu]

I feel for you. My heart is with all of you, and I hope with all of my soul that something will give. That some good-hearted people in power will find the errors of their ways and return the lands to their rightful owners. God knows that they did a far better job of taking care of it than us Wasichus. Please give your grandmother a big hug from me. I was friends with Thomas Banyacya, Roberta Blackgoat and Pauline Whitesinger, and I learned a lot from them. Your grandmother is a treasure.

[FreelySmile]

Thank you for posting this powerful out spoken documentary. Yes, it made me cry, and made me also think how can I get involved. This is an eye opener to me, and my family. This is not taught in schools, or in books. Thank you for teaching me what has happen on our Dine Nation. Thank you.

[zezt]

That evil. That Indigenous people have known and suffered unimaginably. Is here now. And many white people are beginning to know about it. It is an evil without any soul, feeling. It is AWFUL to know about.

We all--whatever colour-- must now hold hands against it! Expose all its doing. Every cranny.

THANKS very much for this film!

[Pilgrim1411]

Politicians are psychopaths.

[kittyjoann]

this sadness goes on & on. I wonder what it is that i could do to stop the pain.I pray, but i feel if some one would tell me what i could do, i will do it.I want to help. i dont know how. please tell me.

[LinDaPimp]

Im so red not white

Not blank and white

IM RED NATIVE !!!!

[Scum71succer]

Thank you for putting this video up

[purespirit9]

Furious at what greed and governments do that go hand in hand are cable of. Indeed any eye opener. All must be inform to fight this especially the present generation. Use the power of thoughts and prayers to the Creator. Blessings to all and our lands.

[KYRAN141]

did she have a gun there, i hope shes willing to use that against the white's if she has to

[TheNavajoJess]

My Great-Grandmother Chische'-Nez Bisti was one of the Dine' women who were relocated, as well as my Grandparents Bruce & Emily Williams. They lost their land, live stock, hogan(which was bull dozed into a pit and covered up), and my late relatives are burried out there. To this day I see my Grandparents struggle to pay bills and they have to buy their mutton from a store or buy it from the food vendors. It's sad. Thank you for making it possible to educate others, of how it really went down.

[greenzoneprojects]

Thank you posting this documentary. This documentary has opened my eyes even more. Do I think the government has our interest at heart, FUCK YOU! Lands need to stay our lands

[TheLovesoul1]

@zezt LOVE YOU BROTHER MAY THE CREATOR BLESS U LOVE AND RESPECT ALPHA.