Thomas Banyacya

Thomas Banyacya (June 2, 1909 – 1999) was a Hopi Native American traditional leader. One of four Hopis, including David Monongye, Dan Evehema, and Dan Katchongva, who decided or were appointed to reveal Hopi traditional wisdom and teachings, including the Hopi prophecies for the future, to the general public in 1946, after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.^[1] Banyacya was a member of the Wolf, Fox, and Coyote clans.

Background

Banyacya grew up in the village of Moenkopi, Arizona and first attended Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California and then Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He lived in Kykotsmovi, Arizona on the Hopi Reservation. During World War II, Banyacya was a draft resiter, who spent time in prison over seven years each time he refused to register for the draft.^[1]

Death

Banyacya died on February 6, 1999 in Keams Canyon, Arizona.^[1]

See also

• Janet McCloud
• Hibakusha
• Uranium in the environment
• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
• Manuel Pino

References

1. Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. "Thomas Banyacya, 89, Teller Of Hopi Prophecy to World." New York Times. Feb 15, 1999 (retrieved Jan 28, 2011)

• http://banyacya.indigenousnative.org/preun92.html Banyaca's letter to Perez de Cuellar

External links

• "Voice of Indigenous People - Native People Address the United Nations" Edited by Alexander Ewen, Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe New Mexico, 1994, 176 pages. Thomas Banyacya et al. at the United Nations
• Native Americans in the twentieth century By James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson,VNR AG, 1984
• Remembering Thomas Banyacya
• Testimony/ Thomas Banyacya Sr., World Uranium Hearings, 14 September 1992, Salzburg
• Thomas Banyacya Hopi Traditional Elder
• Uranium Mining and Indigenous People