1978_03 The Daily Collegian March 1978

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by Gilbert Shelton
March 16, 1978
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energy, naming terrorism, political   sabotage  and  "Just  plain
insanity that could cause anlght-
"The go/ernment and the Industry don't have the slightest
idea how to deal with it. It
could be used for an atom bomb
If It got Into the wrong hands."
JleUeito.
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Dear Friends,
The Iranian Students Association in Fresno cordially Invites
you to attend its annual Norooz
celebration on Saturday March
25, at 6:00 p.m. in Sheraton Inn
(Clinton-Highway 99).
Norooz (new-day) Is the first
day of the spring and the first
day of the new year In the Iranian calender year of 1357. Norooz
is more than a day. It Is a
celebration that has deep roots
In the Iranian peoples culture.
It is marked with joy as it brings
with it spring and the new planting season.
Despite the poverty and oppression prevailing In our
country, our people try their
best with meager means to celebrate Norooz. We In solidarity
with tbe Iranian people are celebrating Norooz In hope that some
day along with tbem we will celebrate Norooz In a free and liberated Iran.
Program: Dinner 6 to 7 p.m.,
chorus, plays, folk dances, Persian music and group dancing.
In order to make our celebra.v
Uon an even happier occasion we"
ask all our friends to take part.
-• Iranian Student Association
in Fresno
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_PO«*E
Unique Arizona Indians reveal secret prophecies
"Do not let them take what is underneath your houses.
For by that time, man will have learned to make another man.
Seasons will change. And man will go into space on platforms."
W"
may be tbe biggest news of.
1978, and beyond, remains a virtual secret, tbe property not of
tbe media mavens of the metropolitan
centers, but of a little-known inman
people in northeastern Arizona who call
themselves the Hopt
Tbe Hopi --their name means "to
re peaceful and have faith tn the Great
Spirit"— have lived in the same rug-
rec, arid place for centuries. They
tare never taken up arms against tbe
United States, nor have tbey ever signed
i treaty. They consider themselves
imlcrue, and are so considered by other
a live North American people, who generally accept the Hop! as the spiritual
finroians of tins continent, tbe great
Turtle Island of Indian tradition.
Today, tbe Hopi, through their tra-
iitlonal elders, are trying to ten us
something. Namely that if we don't
end our ways of warfare and ecological
suicide, this world will soon self-destruct. Maybe this year. Maybe next
last year's Western drought and bitter
Eastern winter were, tbey warn, only
Now, predicting the end of the world
Is not new. Ouija board wirards and
folks claiming exclusive visiting rights
with Venustan saucer people have been
doing it for years. But the Hopi are
not publicity seekers, not dlletantes.
They are an Inbred, intensely reUgidus
people with a detailed checklist for the
apocalypse in prophecies that are to
psychic dabbling what a lightning bolt
Is to a .0-watt bulb.
The Hopi prophecies are derived from
i cosmology that holds there have been
several worlds before this one, worlds
several worlds before this one, worlds
tbat followed a pattern of growth, decay
id- destruction brought on by human
failures. Each world left a few sur-
riTors, who carried tbe seeds of civ-
lliiatlon with them into the next world.
According to the Hopi woridvlew,
they are the seed-people of this
world, and their land, to which
they migrated In antiquity, is the center,
tb? spiritual heart, of this part of the
Planet. The Hopi role, according to
-idltior-j Is to protect the integrity of
the heartland and to nourish the earth
through ritual and right Uvelihood.
The Hop! further believe that a tam-
lh* away from this delicate human ecol-
"O -both by humanity as a whole and
»me  Hopi themselves- has brought
tbe present world to tbe edge of destruction. The prophecies are signposts by which to mark this cyclical
slippage.
Richard Kastl Is a young Osage-Creek
Indian from Oklahoma, a friend of tbe
Hopi who often represents tbem to the
media and on speaking tours around the
Speaking in Eugene, Ore. recently,
Kastl explained. "Long before tbewbite
man came to this land, it was known
that men with white skins would come
from the East"
"The prophecy said they would come
In a box drawn by animals, and tbe
box would later run by itself. There
would be long lines of these boxes,
and -here would be people living inside them; tbey would go across the
land like snakes. Great roads would
then pour across the bnd like rivers;
and man would begin to talk to man
through cobwebs in the sky. It was
said that one man would be able to
see and bear another man over the
mountains through a box.
"Tbe Hopi people said that there would
be three earth-shaking events that would
take place if we started going in the
wrong dtrectioa," Kasticc«tlnued. "The
first warning would come when a man
bearing tbe swastika would come to j
shake the world. Andaman from the
land of the rising sun would come and
shake the world some more."
Then would come "a gourd of ashes
from the sky that would boll the rivers
and the land for many years to come
and bring new sickness."
The leaders of 17 Hopi clans, meeting in 1946, identified the "gourd
of ashes"  as the atomic bomb.
This so concerned tbem, tbey decided
to make the heretofore secret teachings public.
Since then, the Hopi have revealed
other signs of impending doom. Tbey
see genetic engineering as the fulfillment ot the "man making another man"
prophecy, while another vision of "two-
brothers building a ladder to the moon"
appears to be tbe Joint UA-Sovtet orbiting space station planned for 1979.
The final factor in the prophecies,
however, figures to happen not in the
skies, but under the earth. This Is
an assault on tbe Hopi themselves, on
their traditions and land. This assault
led by multinatioual corporations and
abetted by Washington and Hopi who have
given up the o'.dways, is proceeding apace
with devastation results.
Striprnining of Hopi land began in
1967, when the Peabody Coal Co. signed
a long-term tease with tbe elected tribal council. It accelerated in the early
Seventies, when Peabody began flaying
Black Mesa, a place sacred to the old
religion, shipping its coal to the inam-
mothe Four Corners power plant nearby.
Now tbe assault may take a quantum
leap, tbe result, of a lease granted
to a uranium company and 13 oil companies for 1.5 million acres of land -
nearly half the Hopi holdings-- for exploitation of minerals and oil.
the lease was approved In 1976 in
an election in winch only 229 of the
6,000 Hopi voted In favor. Traditional
Hopi don't vote, nor do they, recognize
the U.S. government-sponsored tribal
council as their own.
The Hopi win be getting $5 million
lf the still-pending deal goes through,
but it wiH be small recompense for the
loss of tbelr tend and tbe loss of life
tbey believe tbe drilling and digging
will cause.
Already, tbe considerable amounts of
water taken for the Four Corners
plant has lowered tbe desert water
table, endangering the unique system or
dry farming the Hopi have.perfected.
If tbe land itself Is taken, If its heart
Is gouged out, this world- will end, for
the Hopi will have failed In their stewardship.
Tbe only matter now at Issue among
tbe elders seems to be whether all
.Ufe win be lost, or only most of It
if wo change course right away, they
seem to suggest, we can at least avoid
the worst.
Wrote Dan Katchongva, who died just
after completing his book, A MESSAGE
FOR ALL PEOPLE, In 1972; "People
everywhere must give tbe Hopi their
most serious consideration. Our prophecies, our teachings and our ceremonial duties must continue, for if Hopi
falls, it win trigger the destruction o!
tbe world and all mankind."
(For further Information, contact'
Friends of the Hopi, Box 1852, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002.)
...bafferecf husbands
(Cont'd on pg.l)
Children are also given a negative
view of males in tbe borne. Men working In the agency provide a positive
role model for children.
"We try to tell them that violence
is not a normal type of family interaction," Uyesaka said.
SAFE services are not only available
to women, but to abused men as well,
she said, adding that tbe hotline has
received a few calls from battered bus-
bands. No matter how isolated tbe
cases are, SAFE considers helping male
victims as another aspect of community
outreach.
Tbe staff of SAFE is made up of counselors, administrators and community
educators. As a community educator,
Uyesaka visits small health clinics and
outlying areas to tell the community
about the services offered in Fresno.
SAFE evolved from a Fresno self-
help group known as BASH —the Battered and Abased Seeking Help, which
Is still In existence.
It is funded by the Fresno Employment Training Commission.
The SAFE hotline number is 268-6377.
Tbelr offices are located at 1334 E.
Belmont In Fresno.
Crim department offers study
trip to netherlands for credit
CSUF's Extension Division and
Department of Criminology will
offer a  two-weak spring study
'Star P. Plncu. associate pro-
The study trip Is from May 28
to June 12, Including stops at
the Hague and Amsterdam.
Tuition for the package Is $898.
This   Includes air travel from
fast, three units of academic
credit, and transportation to and
from the Hague. A $150 deposit
Is required with the application,
and the balance Is due April 14.
Conducting the program  will
professor   of   criminology;  Dr.
Qulnn said the Dutch legal,
corrections, and socio-political
systems will he studied In depth.
Visits to youth and adult Institutions, and relevant political
agencies will be Included In the
course. Participants will also
visit the Rljkmuseum, Van Gogh
and take bus trips to
ntwerp, Marken, and
Contact the criminology department at 487-2305 or the Extension Division office at 487-
2549 for further Information.