Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
...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...
...evacuation was originally planned to begin this month, but the Government will not 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...
...Much. If not up to that highest caliber of architectural film settings, the glass dome does provide a nice backdrop for the flying bullets, which shatter the ubiquitous glass windows, the bodies, which fall down escalators and the adventurous heros, who scall the walls of the building with mountain-climbing gear galore...
...farmers would not purposefully destroy good crops or hide them in warehouses like nuclear arsenals; employees in the brown and gold polyester would not have to waste the movement of hand to bun with slime in hand; and lastly, new condominiums would not be resting upon a mountain of pickles that have made their run through the sanitation system...