Protest at Chaco Canyon

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced new federal protections for the sacred site called Chaco Canyon in early June.
The UNESCO world heritage site is located in New Mexico near the four-corners area and is a sacred place to many pueblos and the Navajo Nation.
For the next 20 years, the government will not allow any new oil and gas leases on federal lands around a 10-mile buffer zone of the park.
Even though the decision does not affect already existing leases, it was not welcomed by local Navajo people in the area. ICT's Aliyah Chavez reports.
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[@rmf9567]

Protect the land.. what happened to that motto

[@5373NSMAG]

The individuals own the land, thus they can do what they see fit with it.

[@rmf9567]

@@5373NSMAG no they don’t the US government does..

[@freeirishmexicanamericangi9199]

Protect the land while the people live in extreme poverty is that the motto?

[@rmf9567]

@@freeirishmexicanamericangi9199 they live in extreme poverty because the leaders in the community are stealing money from them. The United States government has given them billions and they all get money every month they are normal Americans just like everyone else.

[@hopisino]

So much for walk in beauty now it's walk with money

[@DChee-zb8qq]

LOL

[@LYepa]

Money eyes🤑🤑🤑 thts all thy want. 🤣

[@5373NSMAG]

Keep it 💯. We all want money don’t get it twisted.

[@scarletred1497]

well said 👏

[@chinookvalley]

Once you accept payment for mineral rights, you give the petro companies carte blanche to do whatever they want on YOUR land. If you don't want them there, tell them to keep their money. You have a hard choice to make. My dad, a Cherokee, would never take money from the evil companies who destroyed OUR land.

[@5373NSMAG]

A lot of those people are elderly and have no other form of income. Their lifeline is the mineral rights.

[@truthseekermissile]

That whole region is so beautiful. It was one of the qualities I found so great in the Chaco region. It is the stillness of life, the remoteness and the simple living that make that area so precious. Money should never be the reason you turn over your rights... and it should NEVER be the reason you turn over your land! I'd rather die broke, hungry and proud, than die rich, full and ashamed.

[@guichozuniga7385]

Our Native American People are suffering all in this continent. In Mexico you have the cartels and corruption. South and central America are almost the SAME

[@gihankanishka]

oh my god, they are willing to let their lands destroyed just for a shorter monotony gains

[@c.m.redhouse7667]

What is your solution for these folks living in a very remote undeveloped region. If you never been to the Chaco Canyon region...there are no high paying jobs within a 120 mile radius. Closest major city is Farmington, NM....123 miles by rough roads. What is your solution...besides moving away? Navajos are very stubborn. Navajos are not moving away...just to accommodate Liberal, Environmentalists, and Pueblos (who no longer been living in the area for over 300 years). This is Navajoland now and has been for over 150 years. Destroying land...that ship has sailed the moment Christopher Columbus set foot on America's shores.

[@delmertoribio9520]

Hell yea they all know who kept that land secret is Pueblo people not Navajo you guys jus got drivin out from the north and settled in Pueblo native lands here in the south

[@Thunderchild505]

💯 exactly

[@AccDeleted1]

Driven out by who? interesting how people from the south know so much about people that came from the north in these kinds of details.

[@davidhagerman7165]

I agree with them that this has been a blessing to the Indians. I have toured through oil fields around Chaco canyon and the sites a clean and operated responsibility. This band is ridicules. This region is very dry, no river run through it, no lake either and very dry. All the tank batteries are inside enclosure where and spillage is contained. Pipeline are monitored by aircraft and truck travel pipeline for surveillance of ant issues.

[@gfunk2036]

It adout money it wrong

[@NoirHammer]

I'm not native but this division between indigenous peoples didn't work when Europeans invaded this land and it won't work now. It's your weakness; it's not a strength. Just an observation from the outside. I wish you peace and prosperity.

[@johnregan1843]

👍☀️👍

[@jackieschroeder3737]

Blessings to you all💞🙏🌌

[@user-wi5vi9cs4d]

Because of the protest,is this company coming onto the land of these people going too have the manpower too operate?

[@post13]

Native Americans and protesting - name a better combo; I’ll wait.

[@jamesn.economou9922]

The oil companies will destroy Chaco canyon.

[@brettmorris9387]

Ughummmm! Yew whoo! Yall want a repeat of Standing Rock!? Get yalls crap together!!! Like what in the actual crap is this? Get up with your people, stop relying on politicians. #WeAreOne

[@drizzant23]

Most Navajos are just extremely greedy for land. A lot of Navajos do a lot of inter-fighting with each other across the Navajo reservation. This has to do with grazing permits and land use area permits. Navajos tend to get very territorial against each other and expand their imaginary claims to the land with these permits. These Navajo grazing permittees have too much veto power and they prevent economic development. This is why there is poverty on the Navajo reservation. This problem is the tribe's alone. I don't understand what colonization has to do with this when it is the native people who are radical and doing the inter-fighting among each other. The federal government continues to subsidize the Navajo Nation - in which Navajo Nation continues to corrupt the money that is given to them. Therefore, I disagree with the young lady's premise about internalized colonization and the larger Dine' grassroots. Colonization has allowed us Native Americans to have a better livelihood with technology and advancement. Otherwise, we would still be living in the wild with buckskin. It's these Navajo grassroots people who dictate the land across the Navajo reservation with their permits. Maybe she should look at the Navajo Nation objectively? Best.

[@RSKLove]

Colonization took us to the brink of extinction. The treaty signers saved us. The land is not ours. You’re correct. The feds created the in-fighting through it’s tyrant practices involved with owning land. Not us. Better to just ride the waves instead of make them. Plenty of our families would not be here without the foreigners, but at the same time, they’re wrong on so many levels and we just refuse to mobilize seriously.

[@theflagstaffkid]

Wait...."colonization has allowed us native Americans to have a better livelihood with technology and advancements. Otherwise we would still be living in the wild with buckskin." Supposedly your native....and you believe the narrative that your ancestors were primitive "wild" people, who were saved from their savagery and elevated into civilization by the billegana colonization?!?!? No wonder you don't understand, your as colonized as it gets. Your ancestors weep at your complacency and neglect for K’é.

[@brianalanreed5766]

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[@joeycastillo3408]

Bruhhh!!! 😂

[@jodi9290]

J Yazzie speaks very well on the subject.

[@c.m.redhouse7667]

J Yazzie, a sellout. J Yazzie bought into the "Liberal" agenda. J Yazzie bought into the "environmentalist" agenda. Attention Navajos, Attention Natives...Liberals and Environmentalists are the enemy of the people.

[@drizzant23]

No she doesn't. It is all just antigovernmental propaganda!

[@5373NSMAG]

She has no idea what she’s talking about. She probably doesn’t even realize the majority of oil field workers are native. Foh

[@user-wy5fo9mu5t]

Blood money

[@kevinbaileyjr9433]

I do understand averyone ok sorry

[@Venice666]

GET A JOB !!! 😂

[@5373NSMAG]

That is a place of evil. Drill it up.

[@scarletred1497]

If that place is evil, why do navajos live there & why do they want "evil" oil & gas money? Make it Make sense 🤦‍♀

[@5373NSMAG]

Chaco ruins are evil. Navajos there could care less about the ruins.

[@scarletred1497]

@@5373NSMAG that's very obvious einstein, so why do they need the oil & gas money that comes from the land? Navajos are greedy for money & nothing more. which i agree with you that they could care less about anything other than monetary gains.

[@lowelljohnson2082]

Remember trump loves Andrew Jackson !!!!!!!!!!! Show s what he thinks of natives .