History

This section contains documents that chronical the resistance to telescopes on Mount Graham, including newspaper articles and statements of solidarity.

• Regents Face Tests on Mount Graham
  Editorial by Dwight Metzger of the Mount Graham Coalition urging the University of Minnesota's Regents to review their involvement with the telescope project. From the University of Minnesota Daily, June 15, 2005.
• White Mountain Apache Chairman Urges UofM Regents to Divest
  On June 8, 2005, the Chairman of the White Mountain Apache tribe, Dallas Massey Sr., sent a letter to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. In the letter, Chairman Massey takes a University vice president to task for writing a memo that completely misrepresented the issue and calls upon the regents to divest from the telescope.
• Star Struck: the Astronomical Abuse of Indigenous Sacred Sites
  Original version of an article written by Joel Helfrich (MGPA), Dwight Metzger (MGC), and Michael Nixon (MGC's Lawyer) on the occasion of the biannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Minneapolis. An edited version appears as the cover article in the June 1, 2005 Pulse of the Twin Cities.
• San Carlos Apache Oppose Microwave Towers on Mt. Graham
  January 31, 2005 letter from the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council to the Supervisor of Coronado National Forest
• Yavapai-Apache Nation Stance On Dzil Nchaa Si'An
  January 26, 2005 letter to the Supervisor of Coronado National Forest
• University Should Divest from Observatory
  The Minnesota Daily published a letter by Mount Graham Coalition Lawyer Michael Nixon on October 25, 2004.
• White Mountain Apache Oppose Microwave Towers
  September 30, 2004 letter from the White Mountain Apache Tribal Council to the Supervisor of Coronado National Forest
• San Carlos Rejects UA Proposal
  On April 13, 2004, the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council rejected $120,000 of education assistance from the Univerisities of Minnesota and Virginia offered as "compensation" for the telescope. From the April 18, 2004 Eastern Arizona Courier.
• Resolution of the U of M Senate Social Concerns Committee
  On Mount Graham Telescope, May 5, 2003
  The University of Minnesota Regents voted to join the telescope project on October 11, 2002. The next semester, the U of M Student/Faculty Senate Social Concerns Committee made this resolution strongly opposing the project and seeking to get the U of M withdraw its participation from the project.
• U.S. environmental groups ask Universities of Minnesota and Virginia not to participate in Mt. Graham telescope project.
  On May 6, 2002, four major U.S. environmental groups and several smaller ones sent a letter to the Presidents of the Universities of Minnesota and Virginia asking them not to join the project.
• Park Service Determines Mt. Graham to be an Apache Traditional Cultural Property
  April 30, 2002.
• Mt. Graham Telescope Project and the U of M:
  Social Concerns Committee Position Report, March 2002
  As the University of Minnesota was preparing to join the telescope project in 2002, the U of M Student/Faculty Senate Social Concerns Committee issued this report advising the Regents not to join the project.
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Urges the University of Minnesota Not Join the Mount Graham Telescope Project
  Adopted January 15, 2002.
• National Congress of American Indians:
  Resolution in Support of Mount Graham's Eligibility to be a Traditional Cultural Property and Against Further Astronomy
  Adopted November 25-30, 2001.
• Record of Apache Opposition to the Desecration of Mt. Graham by the University of Arizona and their Astronomer Collaborators
  Extensive documentation of Apache opposition to the telescope from 1989 to 2001. Compiled by Apaches for Cultural Preservation, the Apache Survival Coalition, and the Mt. Graham Coalition.
  
• Chronology of the University of Arizona, Vatican, German and Italian Campaign Against Apache Religious Beliefs 1985-1998
  Older timeline of telescope project and Apache resistance. Missing footnotes.
• Over 100 U.S. and International Organizations Urge NASA to Comply with U.S. Environmental and Cultural Protection laws
  After Clinton vetoed NASA funding in 1997, the Senate passed the funding again in 1998. In response, these organizations urged NASA to withhold funding from the telescopes. Mount Graham Coalition News Advisory, May 27, 1998.
• Italian Parliment Motion Against LBT on Mt. Graham
  Motion signed by 83 Italian parlimentary deputies on March 26, 1998 opposing Italian government funding for the LBT on Mt. Graham.
• U of A loses 10 Million in Funding
  In 1997, Clinton vetoed $10 million in NASA funds for the LBT project.
• Scarlet Letters
  University of Arizona PR firm caught making up letter opposing Telescopes and presents it as being authored by a student. From Tucson Weekly, May 22, 1997.
• Second Rider Slips through Congress.
  News item in the May 13, 1996 High Country News about a second congressional rider exempting the project form environmental laws.
• Making a Mountain into a Starbase:
  The Long, Bitter Battle Over Mount Graham
  Cover article of the July 24, 1995 High Country News by John Dougherty, twice named the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year.
• Mount Graham Time Line
  History of Mount Graham included in the High Country News article.