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OPERATION: STOVE READY FOR THE HOPI PEOPLE
My name is Charlie Lewis, I am from the village of Shungopavi and belong to the Cloud/Water clan. I, and my mother, Carol James, are the founders of a family grassroots organization called Pikunivi Wood Haulers. Our mission is to ensure that families and elders in need, in our Hopi villages and communities are able to keep their homes warm and, therefore, safe this winter season. Please check out this video to learn more as well! FB Link https://www.facebook.com/Pikunivi-Wood-Haulers-106779485507321/

Please join us in this mission to provide Hopi families with "stove ready" wood. In the past, generations of Hopi families used coal to heat their homes which was free and readily available at the Peabody Coal Mine site. However, since the closure of the mine in 2019, families have had to quickly adjust from coal to burning wood to heat their homes. Wood has now become a necessary yet expensive resource.

Gathering and hauling wood requires that families have able-bodied individuals to cut, chop and lift large quantities of wood, have access to a truck and chainsaw(s), and have the financial resources to purchase gas for both a truck and chainsaw(s). The price of gas has made it even more challenging for financially stressed families to haul from wooded areas that are more than 100 miles away.

Due to these challenges, we, Pikunivi Wood Haulers, have taken the responsibility to provide families in need with "stove ready" wood to keep their homes warm. Last year, our grassroots family organization with the assistance of Chizh for Cheii and Red Feather was able to provide 183 loads of wood to families. This year Black Mesa Trust, an environmental non-profit, is supporting our efforts.

Despite our limited financial resources this year, we continue to gather wood for our Hopi community. Your donation will support us with the financial resources to continue to haul more wood for our families.
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Save an Ancient Living Civilization

Saving an Ancient Civilization

The Hopi Sinom people are descendants of ones who settled in Northern Arizona over 1,000 years ago. Oraibi, one of the 12 pueblos, located in the Black Mesa Region settled around 1100 A.D., according to archaeologists.

Ancient Oraibi is a thriving village where over 500 people still live and farm today.

Their once vibrant culture is at a crisis, caused by the world’s largest coal strip-mining organization, The Peabody Energy Company and it’s subsidiary, Peabody Western Coal. The company is using a questionable mining lease approved by a modern Hopi Tribal Council under pressure from the U.S. Secretary of Interior in 1966. Peabody was given rights to mine approximately 670 million tons of coal on 68,000 acres of land.

During the last 45 years, Peabody has mined over 40 billion gallons of pristine water stored deep under Black Mesa, contaminating precious aquifers and destroying sacred burial sites. The coal lease with the Hopi Tribe will end in 2025. However Peabody Western Coal has filed an application with the Secretary of Interior to extend coal and water mining up to the year 2044.

We, along with Hopi traditional and religious practitioners are vehemently opposing the lease extension and are preparing to challenge both The Peabody Energy Company and the U.S. Secretary of Interior in Federal Court.

Your donations will help fund our operations, assist us in travel expenses so our leaders can attend important Indigenous and Human Rights forums, and help to prepare us for litigation.

Donations will also help us design and prepare our plan to transition from outdated dirty coal plants to clean solar energy.

Please consider giving $25.00 or more to Black Mesa Trust. Every dollar makes a difference and will give us the support we need to move forward.

Donate here today or Send your tax deductible donation to Black Mesa Trust, P.O. Box 33, Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039

Black Mesa Trust is a 501 (c) 3 non profit, tax exempt environmental organization.

Your donations will help to keep our ancient culture alive so that we may continue to uphold our covenant to be good stewards of Mother Earth and protect the sacred land and waters of our homeland, for the Hopi people and future generations.
Remember, our history is your history.

Thank you for your continued support,
Vernon Masayesva
Executive Director, Black Mesa Trust

Please visit our web site to learn more about our cause
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Follw us on facebook and twitter and help spread the word. We are grateful for your support.

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About Black Mesa Trust (Masayesva Vernon Ttee)

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PO Box 33Kykotsmovi Village, AZ 86039

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Causes

Ethnic and racial minority rights, Natural resources

Established

2000

Tax ID

86-0985865

NTEE code

Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

Black Mesa Trust (Masayesva Vernon Ttee) is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 86-0985865. Donations are tax-deductible. Select content is provided by GuideStar.

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