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Show Kolhu/wala:wa boundaries. 181 As the pilgrimage approached in 1985 there were fears of a confrontation with Mr. Earl Piatt. Officials at Zuni feared that when fences were cut by the pilgrims it would precipitate a confrontation. In June, a week before the quadrennial pilgrimage was to take place, under the ultimate direction of the Zuni Tribal Council, Henry Yawakia led a party that built seven or eight gates, including one that may have been on Mr. Piatt's land and another that was definitely constructed in one of Mr. Piatt's fences, located at compass location #30 (as shown on the accompanying map). They did not contact Mr. Piatt and put the gate in the week before the pilgrimage. Mr. Yawakia's gate-building party met two of Mrs. Mabel Hinkson's cowboys when they were putting up gates in her fences and these ranchhands said it was fine, "then you won't have to cut them" (one was "Spanish" and the other a Salt River Indian). The Zuni party had been forced to "remove" (destroy) padlocks on locked gates. The cowboys said they would give them a key, but Mr. Yawakia said they must have forgotten and never did. The Zuni gate-building party told the rancher in the trailer house near where trail reaches 666 that they were putting up gates on Barth's property for the pilgrimage in a couple of weeks and he said to go ahead and put gates wherever 181. Public Law 98-408. Sutton, Imre (ed.) Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims, University of New Mexico Press; Albuquerque; 1985, pp.121, 130n and 229-230n, reviews some of this congressional activity. - 125 - |
