Posted on 10/30/2010 3:33:30 PM PDT by george76
The Hopi Tribe has a message for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups: Keep out!
That is the response of the Hopi Tribal Council on Monday to what it says has been continuous concerted attacks from local and national environmental groups "bent on advancing their interests and agenda at the expense of the Hopi Tribe and its sovereign interest."
The council wants the Sierra Club and other environmental groups and on-reservation organizations affiliated with these groups to know they are not welcome on the Hopi Reservation, declaring them persona non grata - no longer favored or welcome.
By a resolution approved 12-0, the council said environmentalists have deprived the tribe "of markets for its coal resources" and coal revenues needed to sustain governmental services, provide jobs for tribal members and safeguard Hopi culture and tradition.
In 2005, environmental groups played a significant role in the shutdown of the Mohave Generating Station, which the Hopi Council contends "deprived the Hopi Tribe of many millions of dollars of annual operating revenues," according to the resolution.
Revenue losses from the Mohave power plant range from an estimated $6.5 million to $8.5 million annually.
The council feels that the economic viability of the Navajo Generating Station - the tribe's only remaining coal customer - is also being threatened, and that environmentalists' actions could lead to "total economic collapse of the tribe."
The resolution encourages all Indian nations across the country to evaluate their relationships with environmental groups and possibly reconsider those alliances in order to protect tribal sovereignty.
Besides the Sierra Club, the resolution has also banned The Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Grand Canyon Trust from the Hopi Reservation.
(Excerpt) Read more at navajohopiobserver.com ...
The Hopi’s get it.
City councils could do that and pass zoning and building codes making illegal aliens NOT WELCOME...
Way to go! P.S. See my tagline.
In his latest ad, Paul Gosar (R) AZ-1 is beating Kirkpatrick (CR) over the head with the potential shutdown of Navajo Generating Station by the loonies. They’ve been trying to shutdown all of the generating stations and coalmines in NE Arizona for years.
“Theres hopi after all!”
But is it hopi-changi?
Hopi Elders Alert!
Hopi Changes!! GO HOPI!!
Hear! HEAR! ! !
The Hopi have made a good start.
Time for all the Indians to declare all of GangGreen persona non grata.
Oh, one more thing - time for all of America to vote out all Democrats and RINOs. Democrats, RINOs and such socialist trash are who voted in the GangGreen agenda.
Time to repeal the Great UnNatural Acts - Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, ad nauseam.
Indians, more than any other group should know man managed America for thousands of years, thus rendering GangGreen’s attempts to recreate Wilderness a myth.
Lastly, GangGreen is really commie - now at least the Hopi see this.
Did you know the Governor of Idaho is telling the fed where they can stick their wolf program? 2010, October
Good for the Hopi! Thanks for the ping!
That’s pretty funny, actually! I had just finished posting this a minute or so ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2617292/posts?page=80#80
...on another thread.
...’Great minds’ ...and all that. ...grin
Not to sound snarky, but why would they get to vote in US elections, since they are sovereign nations? Makes no sense. Don’t blame them for 86ing the “environmental” groups though.
Treaty.
“I believe that the tribal system should be abolished. No more tribes, treaties or government support, no Indian Affairs, no reservations. They can keep what they have, but no more trusts.”
The Blue Kachina will take off his mask in the square before that happens.
Take that white eye...
Oklahoma has only one Indian reservation, the Osage reservation.The rest of the tribes don't have reservations. They own their land like everyone else.
I wonder if this is still their current stance, since this article was published in September 2009, and the date is now October 2010.
I hope so, but lack the data to conclude either way.
Well that’s “how”, but not why. (no pun intended) :)
Time to repeal the Great UnNatural Acts - Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, ad nauseam.
8-)
Thank you.
...Great minds ...and all that. ...grin
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