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Travelogue 5

This message I received from Amel who was present when the gathering moved to Hopiland.
This is to make the story complete. 
Harriet
 

”We witnessed a sand storm in Tuba City, situated in the Navaho reserve, in the desert
between the Mesas. Here are the Hopi Indians living, in a pretty lifeless and dry area.
There we met with the Navaho or Dine People.
We shared a fire ceremony that night with the young people.
At one point a women of their tribe arrived and talked during 2 hours explaining
their battle with the authorities in the past 100 years.
It all started with the fact that the plutonium and uranium which was used by the authorities to build the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was dug on their land. This went on until enormous holes were created filled with radioactive water just left behind by the mining companies after they stole what they needed.
 The Dine People had managed the country with much care for hundreds of years. Now all their sheep and cows were poisoned and shot before their eyes and piled up around their Hogan’s (ceremonial houses). They are suffering now from degenerations, bad drinking water, eating the worst food, and have zero rights, for a long time already ...
I could continue this but instead of enumerate what is missing in their lives I will rather say that these people stand up and fight for their existence and they will survive, I just know .... 

The next morning we were told that Hopi Elders did not want us on their land, which also showed the conflict between the people of Hopi, Navahos and their governments who apparently hadn’t represented the interest of their own people.
Strangely enough, I heard later from Drunvalo’s  that group of Hopi Elders had been waiting for us somewhere else but they were overlooked by all this organizational turmoil.
So that again is a story by itself and not for now”.  

Harriet Algra

Total Health Clinic Foundation President