This month's Monday Mayhem discussion is titled Navajo Resistance to Forced Relocation: A Report Back from Black Mesa, Arizona.

In 1974, Congress redrew the lines of the Hopi and Navajo Reservations in Arizona and overnight 10,000 Navajo and 300 Hopis were on the wrong side of the line and slated for forced relocation in order to make way massive coal strip-mining. For over 40 years Navajo families have been resisting relocation in the Black Mesa/Big Mountain region. As part of a Black Mesa Indigenous Support program, local land and housing justice organizer Ryan Acuff from Take Back the Land Rochester provided direct-on land support in December 2015/January 2016. Ryan will share their experiences with the struggle of the largest indigenous struggle against relocation in the U.S. and how we can learn from and support it.

[source: Rochester Indymedia website, 2016-Jan-25]