Letters

This letter is in response to the proposed helium development in the Sanostee, New Mexico, and surrounding areas.

When I was a little girl, younger than 10 years old, my Diné cousins and my sister and I would scramble up the red rocks in Bááháálí to a beautiful remote setting we thought of as our secret stream.

One, two, three, four weeks — where’s the Hardship checks of $432 for the senior citizens?

Sexual child abuse is part of the list in the Major Crimes Act and prosecuted by federal prosecutors. The problem I have with this scenario is that, since 2011, the FBI “administratively closed” 1,900 cases because they “fail to meet evidentiary or statutory requirements.”

If it weren’t so dangerous to Mother Earth and harmful to Navajo and Pueblo people around Prewitt, it might almost be funny.