This year marks 50 years of ongoing resistance since the relocation law PL 93_531, so-called Navajo-Hopi Resettlement Act, was passed in 1974.

Big Mountain / Black Mesa Dineh resistance communities continue to lead the way forward. These resisters have outlasted the world's largest coal company, Peabody Energy; countered every colonial intention to remove them and force them to join the masses of displaced and dispossessed; and continued to carry out their lifeways, holding onto 900,000 acres of their ancestral lands in defiance of US law. It is from the direction and example of the people on the land, who continue to maintain their ways of life, that we, the international solidarity community, humbly continue to support.

Black Mesa Solidarity Network is a decentralized volunteer network from around Turtle Island. We work directly with Dineh living in the territories resisting relocation laws. To learn more about the struggle for the land and get involved, visit their linktree.

You can also support the network through their go fund me for the 2024 Winter Resiliency and Firewood Camp.