Skiing on a sacred mountain: Indigenous Americans stand against a resort’s expansion

Hopi farmer Bucky Preston talks to the clouds that form atop Arizona’s tallest mountain. And they talk back. But last fall, the sacred conversation fell silent. “I did not have a harvest,” says Preston, 72. “It was the first time in my life that happen…

Hopi farmer Bucky Preston talks to the clouds that form atop Arizona’s tallest mountain. And they talk back. But last fall, the sacred conversation fell silent. “I did not have a harvest,” says Preston, 72. “It was the first time in my life that happened.” He says other farmers, who grow without chemical fertilizer or irrigation, experienced the same. While the climate crisis and historic drought in the south-west may be factors, Preston blames another, human-made force for the disruptions: a ski resort carved into Nuva’tukya’ovi.

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