{"id":4862,"date":"2012-06-09T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2012-06-09T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:50:08","slug":"from-eastcountymagazine-tribal-members-hold-vigil-at-ocotillo-wind-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/from-eastcountymagazine-tribal-members-hold-vigil-at-ocotillo-wind-site\/","title":{"rendered":"(from EastCountyMagazine)  &#8216;TRIBAL MEMBERS HOLD VIGIL AT OCOTILLO WIND SITE&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 7, 2012 (Ocotillo)\u2014Neither blistering heat nor blowing dust dissuaded Native Americans from at least four different tribes from taking part in a five-day occupation in Ocotillo last week.<\/p>\n<p>They came to be with the spirits of their ancestors.\u00a0 They also aim to show that desert devastation occurring with construction of the Ocotillo Express wind facility is wrong and must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>A mystical element seemed to permeate the site, where tribal members built a ramada of tree branches, willow and arrow weeds to shade them from the scorching sun.\u00a0 After a sidewinder rattlesnake entered the Ramada, it was gently relocated, but returned later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe snake was moved, but kept coming back, just like our people. We will continue to keep coming back,\u201d said Preston Arrowweed, a Quechan elder who considers unusual animal visitations at the site to be signs from the Indian spirits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eastcountymagazine.org\/node\/9956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4863\" title=\"Ocotillo vigil-birdsingers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ocotillo-vigil-birdsingers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ocotillo-vigil-birdsingers.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ocotillo-vigil-birdsingers-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>http:\/\/eastcountymagazine.org\/node\/9956<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE JUNE\/JULY Z, CLICK THE COVER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4865\" title=\"COV-JU12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JU123-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JU123-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/COV-JU123.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 June 7, 2012 (Ocotillo)\u2014Neither blistering heat nor blowing dust dissuaded Native Americans from at least four different tribes from taking part in a five-day occupation in Ocotillo last week. They came to be with the spirits of their ancestors.\u00a0 They also aim to show that desert devastation occurring with construction of the Ocotillo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}