Environmental Justice: Black Mesa Indigenous People

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that were, “advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes” (Dawes). This issue wasn’t settled or close to being over at this point either. Then in 1974 Congress passed a Land Settlement Act initiated by the so-called Hopi Tribal Council who advocated this partition. Since then the remaining Navajo’s who refused the Act have been fighting for the land they remain on.
“To relocate is to disappear and never be seen again,” said Pauline Whitesinger, a once Navajo spokesperson (Parlow). In the 1980 film “Broken Rainbow,” about the forced relocation of the Navajo people near the four corners area, the narrator describes that the act of relocating is referred to by the Navajo people as “disappearing." The 1974 Congressional Land Settlement Act ordered 10,000 Navajo off of joint Hopi-Navajo lands. Lands which had been classified as Joint Use Area’s by a previous 1936 Bureau of Indian Affairs case. Nonetheless, nearly 1,200 Navajo’s relocated into government-sanctioned ...

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And lastly, the city of Phoenix who needs an ever-increasing amount or resources that are not easily attained. The primary stakeholder in this environmental justice issue would be the tribes being forced to relocate continuously, century after century. I would say that Peabody and the City of Phoenix are also primary stakeholders, however their existence is quite minimal in comparison to the Navajo-Hopi tribes that have been occupying the land before Spanish influence on the soils.
According to Blauner in Bullards article, “Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement” people of color are subject to five principal colonizing processes. One, the oppressed ...

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