Dineh removal postponed, but harassment continues but harassment continues
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dispute by removing 10,000 to 14,000 Dineh people from lands they have lived on Public Law 93-531 was passed by the for centuries. If necessary, the National U.S. government in 1974. The alleged Guard is to be used. About 1.8 million purpose of the law is to settle a land acres of coal-rich land will be affected. The dispute between the tribal councils of the law also calls for opening up the land to Hopi and Dineh (Navajo) tribes in North - Standard Oil and Peabody Coal for stripeastern Arizona. These councils are not elected by the people but are appointed by The Hopi Council's attorney, John Boyden, began suing the Dineh Council for P.L. 93-531 calls for resolving the land mineral rights to Big Mountain in the late 1960s, while he was still employed by Peabody Coal. Traditional Hopi leadership refuses to recognize this council and has expressed its solidarity with the Dineh Recent events have pushed back the July 7, 1986, removal deadline, but the problem remains. On May 20, 1986, Ross Swimmer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs asked that the Department of the Interior push the relocation back 18 months. He also requested $20 million in tax money in order to continue relocation measures. The Swimmer acknowledges that BIArelocation measures include "harassment" of the Dineh people—but he promised that this would stop. Roberta Blackgoat, a Dineh elder, and Big Mountain support groups, however, claim the harassment individual purchases. mining.
the Department of the Interior.
Mounter against relocation.