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One of Roberta's famous slogans
Roberta Blackgoat became friends of the Piscataway when she would travel to protest and do speaking engagements in DC. She was protesting an executive order to remove Dine’ & Hopi residents from black mesa in Arizona. The force removal forced 14,000 Navajo and several hundred Hopi to move, however along with several hundred Roberta stayed and fought for her right to live out her life on her ancestral land. The removal was to expand the Peabody coal mining operation. Under Black Mesa 20 billion tons of low sulfur coal was discovered. Activist like Roberta Blackgoat were highly influential to the Piscataway and their activism in Washington DC. |