In Defense of a Hopi Sacred Landscape: The Arizona Snowbowl Controversy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Director Emeritus, Hopi Cultural Preservation office, The Hopi Tribe, Hotevilla, Arizona.
Mr. Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Director Emeritus with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, is Tepwungwa (Greasewood Clan) from the village of Paaqavi. Mr. Kuwanwisiwma attained a Bachelors of Science degree in Business from Northern Arizona University. He formerly served as the Hopi Tribal Treasurer and Assistant Director of the Hopi Health Department. He established the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office and served as director for 30 years until retirement in 2017. Under his leadership, programs were created to maintain the Hopi culture such as the Hopi Lavayi program, establishing a Cultural Resources Advisory Task Team (CRATT), Glen Canyon Environmental Assessment program and the Navajo/Hopi Intergovernmental Compact.
As a longtime advocate for Traditional Cultural Places and sacred site protection, Mr. Kuwanwisiwma represented the Hopi Tribe in major court cases such as the Little Colorado River water rights litigation, United States Forest Service and the City of Flagstaff regarding artificial snow making at the Arizona Snowbowl. Mr. Kuwanwisiwma collaboratively helped shape the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Archives with Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with Northern Arizona University Anthropology departments, NAU Cline Library Special Collections and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He set high standards in addressing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). In 2012 and 2013 he was recognized and awarded the Public Archeology Award by Arizona Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission (GAAC).
Mr. Kuwanwisiwma’s most recent publications are Footprints of Hopi History Hipihiniwtiput Kukveni’at, (2018); co-author for Hisat’sinom- Ancient Peoples in the Land without Water (2012), co-author of Hopi People and Moquis and Kastilam: Hopis, Spaniards and the Trauma of History.
I remember 2001 kykotsmovi youth we went n protested for the peaks.. I made the paper that said katsinas make snow ..
Ome' relative we must never relent to them that seek to destroy our culture. kwa kwai.
Gosh I love and respect our elders but I'm a bit disappointed that uncle Leigh is not elaborating about the fact that the wastewater is coming from the hospital including spent pharmaceuticals.
The whole of TURTLE ISLAND is TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY and therein remains the colonial intrusion and dilema, sa ho'chifu' ut' HILOHA'HOMA. Naholo go back to your own DNA landscape NOW.
So reclaimed water that is used in Golf courses and agriculture is bad for the environment? I think it conserves water that Arizona don't have. How could a religion that champions environmental stewardship be against ANY water?
After my experiences with the Gila River Tribes backed with millions of dollars from Environmental Groups, I'm convinced they are worried about their bottom line as well.
You need to look at this from a different perspective. If I sprayed treated sewage water in your church you'd be upset, correct? Do you now understand why the Hopi are upset?
Secondly, from what I understand reclaimed water in agriculture is highly restricted to woody plants due to the contamination issues. If that has changed it is news to me. Wouldn't it be better to use infiltration basins to not only replenish ground water, but to passively filter it of possible bacterial pathogens. So that not only is the water made even cleaner it would also serve a far greater number of people than a ski resort ever could. Shouldn't a local government try and use its resources for the greatest number of LOCAL inhabitants rather than a rather frivolous use aimed at a limited number of tourists?
After primary treatment and infiltration into groundwater aquifers it could be used instead of and/or in addition to expensive imported highly salted drinking water.
Has this company instituted any sort of rainwater harvesting on site? Do they collect runoff from hard surfaces and use any sort of reclamation of their own?
I am not an expert of any sort, but it seems to me that using reclaimed water that has through evaporation losses that are part of the treatment process would further increase the amount of salts and would invariably cause degradation in the long term.
The water is from the Flagstaff Med center and only partially treated out for waste and pharmaceuticals you dipshit. Go back tp your own DNA lands.
@@hilohahoma1547 coming from people that wants to ban ANY water being used (I.E. tap water or rain water from anywhere, including on site)
enjoy your bottled water that's now BPA free.
Well come on an volunteer to give us clean water. Filter out the uranium for us. Until then just stay on your high horse and giddy up onto the next "social cause".
@@kaoskewenvoyouma2712 If you can't measure it you can't manage it.
At least the tap water that everyone drinks is measured and that wouldn't even allowed. But we'll allow Nez have his ocean of junk cars as far as the eye can see leak on the ground and rust away.