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Show . . . The pathway cannot be deviated from what it's been originally set forth. . . . It's going to hurt both of us-the living and the deceased-because ... once our life ends, that's our pilgrimage road.... If that actually happens, our life will be destroyed, our living people here because it's our journey where we started to the finish, and we don't want anybody, even Piatt, whoever-we don't want anybody to put interruption to that journey-the pilgrimage road. . . . Our life will be shortened if something happens. The religious leaders do not want a fence closing out the easement. They do ask for a mile wide easement, so they will not be bothered during their religious practices. They also ask that gates be maintained in fences they must pass through so that damage will not have to be inflicted on the fences. Zuni religious leaders have been making this request for more than fifty years. High posts should be put in where the gates are so that they can be easily discerned by the pilgrims from a distance. Roadblocks on Highway 666 should continue during the pilgrimage, in order to prevent unauthorized observation of the pilgrimage.260 The religious leaders also expressed a militant posture in regard to potential impediments to their taking any future pilgrimage, and towards anyone who might attempt to hinder them. All evidence supports the Zuni tribe's claims in regard to Kolhu/wala:wa as well as their claim for permanent access to their "Heaven," their shrines and 260. Ibid. 261. Kallestewa, Ben; Jack Peynetsa, Ralph Quam, Alvin Nastacio, John (Niiha) Collier (religious leaders); Sefferino Eriacho, Rita Enote Lorenzo, Lowell Panteah, Charles Hustito, Ken Wato (tribal council members). Interview by E. Richard Hart, February 4, 1986, Zuni, New Mexico, pp. 9-10. "Well take him up the mountain to Kolhu/wala:wa and he'll see what's going to happen to him." - 190 - |
