DoomsdaysCW<p>Dine' tell Navajo Council 'NO COAL!'</p><p>The Monster has returned, and it is even more grotesque than the one before. Dine' remember forced relocation, the loss of water and medicine plants, and the loss of loved ones. Navajos say 'No!; to Trump and Navajo President Nygren's push for coal.</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> June 1, 2025</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestLake</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> -- "Dine' told the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNationCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNationCouncil</span></a> that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalIndustry</span></a> has cost them their aquifer water, and their health. Combined with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a>, they have lost their loved ones to widespread <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackLungDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLungDisease</span></a> killing their people. </p><p>"Dine' remembered <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a> and the stripping of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a>, during a hearing on Friday. The Navajo Council was told to stand up for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FutureGenerations</span></a>, or step aside.<br> <br>" 'The Navajo Nation has provided coal to the big cities for decades, while the people of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesa</span></a> have nothing to show for it," Dine' from Black Mesa told the Council.<br> <br>" 'We are supposed to be the Protectors of the Earth.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LouiseBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouiseBenally</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s aunt] of Big Mountain told the hearing that you can't trust what <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is telling you because he'll change whatever he says in the next sentence. Louise said he has no concept of what being a human is. </p><p>" 'Keep your prayers and your language, those are the things that really matter for us <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a>,' said Louise. She and her family spent their lives resisting forced relocation brought by Peabody Coal's mining on Black Mesa. </p><p>" 'Everyone was opposed to another <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalMining</span></a>, it's not good for anything, and it is causing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGases</span></a> to continue to rise,' Louise told Censored News.</p><p>" 'Doctor Nygren doesn't know that. He needs a hogan level of education.'</p><p>" '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> is so, important to every living thing, we need to be finding solutions not making things worse.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/live-navajo-hearing-on-revitalizing.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/live-navajo-hearing-on-revitalizing.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EO14241" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EO14241</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dineh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineteh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dineteh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirtyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirtyCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCoalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoCoalMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RememberKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RememberKleeBenally</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople</span></a></p>