She Was A Mountain

Описание: Ya'at'eeh, 

In honor and support for ongoing resistance to forced relocation on Black Mesa. This is for the original matriarchs who would not be moved such as Katherine Smith, Roberta Blackgoat, Pauline Whitesinger, Mae Tso, Alice Benally, Ruth Benally, and so many more.

I highly recommend checking out Malcolm Benally’s book Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
https://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Water-N...

You can also watch the documentary Broken Rainbow here:    • Broken Rainbow  

"This land is a sacred land. The man's law is not our law. Nature, food and the way we live is our law. The plans to disrupt and dig out sacred sites are against the Creator's law. Our great ancestors are buried all over, they have become sand, they have become the mountains and their spiritual presence is still here to guide us… We resist in order to keep this sacred land in place. We are doing this for our children. ” - Roberta Blackgoat.

"We've reached the point where now we have to fight for our land, I will never leave this land. If they come to move me, they can shoot me right here." - Pauline Whitesinger.

"It is here that I have made offerings to the Holy beings all my life; it is here that they have blessed me and my family. It is here that my umbilical cord dissolved, as did the umbilical cords of my children and my parents. My family is connected to the land here. Take us away from this, dissolve the connection to this place, and perhaps we will still be awake and walking – but we will be dead.” - Katherine Smith.

“I would rather stay here and die than suffer somewhere else.” Mae Tso.

#freebigmountain #relocationisgenocide

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Ahe' hee’, Klee


she was a mountain

it was the words she didn’t say
she sang the sun down, everyday
into the silence, shouting
and when they came to move her
she was a mountain

It was compromise she wouldn’t make
sowing resistance, everyday
with every seed planted,
they couldn't move her
because she was a mountain

oh, Katherine get your gun
oh, Roberta sing your song
oh, Pauline cut the wire
oh, Mae start the fire

in this earth we are made
so we never really go, away
its part of us that is buried, so we always return
back to our mother earth

oh, Katherine get your gun
oh, Roberta sing your song
oh, Pauline cut the wire
oh, Alice will keep the fire
and we will keep the fire

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