Broken Rainbow - Part 5 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 gor on-line.

Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[kirttsosie]

if this is really known quiet as a melting pot for the U.S. ... they really should put in a native in Washingdonn.....

[renthal971]

RED POWER!!!!!>>>>

[mlkworld]

Stand up my people lets repair the broken rainbow say all stop against the capitalisme what not cares about the people

[SweetPassionLove]

Maybe this is answer to the Federal Government to "live up" to treaties with all native people. A weapon derived of our "mother earth" to get our way to gain our status in this stupid society

[SweetPassionLove]

I think with the high uranium that is embedded in our lands, we should "bomb" white society with it and see how they deal with the effects

[Scum71succer]

Wow so the US gov. used terrorism before as an excuse......anyone see the parallels

[dubmetal69]

@8757kathy what goes around come around, mother earth bleeds everywhere!!

[Ljuuroku]

@ 7:59 ahh good ol units 1,2,&3 on the right side amd Unit 4&5 on the left. looks like way before they put in the Baghouses and SO2 Units for 4&5. aw APS four corners i used to work there.

[Unpromoted]

Song at 4:02 is incredible.

People, please stop frothing at the mouth about things such as jews and mormons and stuff. It's less about them, and more about Uranium and Coal and greed and imbalance.

I would like you to appear less ignorant to your friends and associates when you discuss these things.

[eveningstar1982]

@mariotttttttt It IS still going on . . . . :o( Try and look up some of their sacred places they have today, you'll see the trouble they have with being allowed to keep it, even though these places were given back to them. What makes our culture and believes so right, when we can do this to others??

[eveningstar1982]

We develop and develop our technology and other rescources? For what purpose? We will never be satisfied anyway. Instead we are causing misery and disaster at other peoples cultures and believes. Open your eyes and help these people!