Broken Rainbow - Part 2 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

[Morningwasichu]

Yes, they are the only ones that understand and love the land the way only a mother can love a child, and a child can love its mother.

We wasichus think of being the fathers of the land itself. We dismiss the whole idea of where we came from, just to please our egos and obtain as much power over land, resources, wealth and other people.

But you will always be the true owners of the land, no matter what it looks on the outside. The kernels of truth will sprout again when the time is right.

[raniaserifi]

Amazing Documentary... I am Greek teaching history in a Scottish school and I am trying to teach my students about the REAL American people and this film is so well made and touching . Native Americans belong to some of the proudest and wisest coultures I ve ever learned about. I am so embarassed and angry about the white man's "contibution "to the World's history.

[masterduckman]

Native people will always have this...at least as long as we will continue to fight for it. The struggle will only continue if we keep fighting. If we stop fighting then the struggle will end and leave the true Americans of this land left with nothing more than a few paragraphs in history books.

[cr8zeeNavajo]

Dine' Pride will never never fade away...NAVAJO LAND

[TheLovesoul1]

go to hell amercia leave the natives alone!!

[okaminess]

There are still younger people who speak with a Navajo accent. I dig that because it's still part of our modern culture.

[StigmataBOB1]

I was trained by Native North American spirits. Know that spirits communicate not with words, but by sending a picture into our minds, or sending us a feeling. We get this feeling and experience it as if it were our own. Example: Sometimes a woman may start to weep for no apparent reason. It is a spirit sending her that feeling of sorrow, or strong emotion.

[Muas707]

i love you youtube, thanks uploader. i missed this documentary in class so im watching it now. omg, fcuk the politicians.

[MattNatural]

@Tawny236 Word

[Tawny236]

@MattNatural What he said between 8:20 - 8:40 deserves him a nomination for biggest douche.

[tabaaha92]

i just replay 7:07 to 7:09 over again and again because it's awesome to hear children speak Navajo instead of English... I wish it was still like that today

[MattNatural]

Man.. F*** that dumb A** politician at 8:20

[interestinglyethnic]

Such a wonderful family devoted culture of warmth and respect to elders.