Word: blackgoat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oblivious to the thunderheads that gather above her, Roberta Blackgoat, 69, an elder of the Navajo tribe, stoops with a stick to scratch a rectangle in the northern Arizona desert. Beneath this sandy soil her ancestors for five generations have buried the umbilical cords of their newborn, a ritual affirmation of their link to this harsh and haunting land. Today, however, a land dispute with a neighboring tribe threatens to uproot Blackgoat and more than 10,000 other Navajo in a U.S. Government eviction unrivaled since the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World...
...example is Roberta Blackgoat's son Danny, a strapping, college-educated 34-year-old who abandoned the reservation in exchange for a $40,000 house and $5,000 in cash. Like some other Indians pushed into white society, Blackgoat slipped into drug and alcohol abuse. He longed for the security of his tribal home on Big Mountain. "I remembered the land," he says. "I remembered home...
...force any of the Navajo to move until new houses can be built for them. Yet a cloud of paranoia darkens Big Mountain. Many Navajo believe their relocation is the result of a conspiracy between the Government and energy companies eager to mine the reservation's riches. Meanwhile, Danny Blackgoat has decided to move back to Big Mountain. He wants to be near his mother and rebuild an abandoned hogan, the traditional Navajo dwelling of juniper logs and mud. His mother, stoic and unyielding, welcomes the support. "The Creator," she vows, "is the only one that's going to relocate...
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