Navajos Resist Relocation.

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Black Mesa, Arizona

On Big Mountain, about 100 families say they won't leave their land. But the U.S. government says they must go by February.

The Navajo (or Dineh) families are also resisting their own tribal government. The Navajo nation went against the will of its members, say the protesters, in making a deal with Peabody Coal Company, the largest coal company in the United States, back in the 1970s. The deal gave the Navajo royalty payments of about $40 million a year in exchange for their promise to leave their ancestral land and allow Peabody to...