Wampum

Some of us know there is a Wheeler-Howard Act issue at Hopi. Chris Clarke writes about the momentary Hopi Tribal Council vs Sierra Club thing here.

Yes, there is the Burns National Parks thing on PBS, and as a personal note, in 1969 the NPS burned down the cabins of the Ahwahnee still living on 10 acres of unsectioned land in Yosemite Valley, a half mile west of Yosemite Village, and told the Ahwahnee families to relocate outside of the National Park. That village was built during the NRA, and as a kid I played there under the eye of an Auntie when my mom was off walking. The NPS plan of record was that area from then on would be protected as an environmental restoration area.

Fundamentally, its about Crown Trees, and Dorothy van der Peet's $50 of fish (footnote to Crown Trees post).

Its about European pastoralism and the rediscovery of using fire to manage common land, for deer and agriculture.

Those with copies of Emily Benedek's The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute are encouraged to open the hymn book to where the book breaks first.