NGOs MEET WITH TRADITIONAL 
 DINE' AND HOPI ELDERS 

On February 3, 1998,  Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, the Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, visited Black Mesa. This was the only on-site visit with Indigenous peoples during his trip to the United States where, for the first time, the United States is being formally investigated by the United Nations for alleged Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief. This historic event was organized in cooperation with a circle of Dineh people, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the Office of the Special Rapporteur in Geneva, Switzerland and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, coordinating all the necessary protocols for NGO participation and media coverage.

NGO INTERFAITH DELEGATION that traveled to Black Mesa

Reverend Dr. Thom White Wolf Fasset:

General Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church;

Publisher of Christian Social Action; lead of the NGO delegation

Liberato C. Bautista:

Assistant General Secretary of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church,

Main Representative to the United Nations

"A Counterinsurgency of a Different Kind: The Hopes and Struggles..." (Please link ..)

Gail Lerner:

World Council of Churches (WCC), Commission of the Churches on International Affairs

Representative to the United Nations

Marsha Monestersky:

Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation; Co-Chair, NGO Human Rights Caucus and Member

Organizing Committee of the International Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and the Environment

Roberto Borrero:

Vice-Chairperson, NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Support Letters

Lee Ranck:

Assistant General Secretary, General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church

Editor of Christian Social Action

"United Methodists among interfaith delegation supporting Dineh (Navajo) human rights claims"

Sammy Toineeta:

Racial Justice Division, National Council of Churches of USA

Betsy Stang:

Wittenberg Center, NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples

NGO Values Caucus and organizer of the "Cry of the Earth" Prophecy Session held at the UN in 1993

Thank You Letter to the Dineh and Hopi Peoples

Pamela Kraft:

Tribal Link Foundation and Vice-Chairperson

NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Dr. Delois Blakely:

NGO Peace Caucus; National Council of Women; Harlem Women International

Chairperson, National African American Delegation and Community Mayor, Harlem, NY

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

Bishop William Dew:

Head of United Methodist Church's Phoenix Area

Reverend Thomas Butcher:

Director, Council On Ministries of the Desert Southwest Annual Conference

Audrey Martinez:

Observer, Council of Churches of New York

Council of Churches of New York Support Letter

Pamela Ax:

Sierra Club, Executive Committee New York City Group

Sierra Club, New York City Group Executive Committee Resolution

Sierra Club, Atlantic Chapter, Board of Governance Resolution

Mohave Resolution

Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group

Ed Marquez:

Representative, Humanist Movement

Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group

The Humanist Movement Resolution

Rita Sebastion:

Press Outreach

Sovereign Dineh Nation (SDN) New York Support Group

CONTRIBUTING ADVISORS

David Brugge:

Anthropologist and Author

Submission to Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance

Thayer Scudder:

Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology

Letter to Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance