Thomas Banyacya
{{Short description|Hopi Native American leader (1909–1999)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Thomas Banyacya, Sr.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|06|02}}
| birth_place = Moenkopi, Arizona, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|02|06|1909|06|02}}
| death_place = Keams Canyon, Arizona, U.S.
| education = Bacone College
| occupation = Hopi traditionalist leader, public figure, interpreter and spokesman for Hopi traditional spiritual and religious leaders
| spouse = Fermina (nee Jenkins)
}}
Thomas Banyacya, Sr. (June 2, 1909 – February 6, 1999) was a Hopi Native American traditionalist leader.{{Cite book |last=Griffin-Pierce |first=Trudy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdrmWsXR7poC |title=The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest |date=2010-06-08 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-52010-2 |pages=97 |language=en |author-link=Trudy Griffin-Pierce}}Roads in the Sky: The Hopi Indians in a Century of
Change, by Richard O. Clemmer. Boulder: West-
view Press, 1995. xiv, 377 pp.Voice of Indigenous People, Clearlight Publishers, 1994, Santa Fe, New Mexico; {{ISBN|0-940666-31-6}}Unser Ende ist Euer Untergang - Die Botschaft der Hopi an die Welt, Alexander Buschenreiter, 1991, Lamuv Verlag {{ISBN|3-88977-566-7}}; Our end is your downfall - The Message of the Hopi to the World, Alexander Buschenreiter, 1991, Lamuv Verlag Publishers, Gottingen, Germany {{ISBN|3-88977-566-7}}
Biography
Thomas Banyacya was born on June 2, 1909, and grew up in the village of Moenkopi, Arizona. He was a member of the Wolf, Fox, and Coyote clans. He first attended Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California and then Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
Thomas Banyacya lived in Kykotsmovi, Arizona, on Hopi Tutskwa,{{cite web |url=https://www.hopi-nsn.gov/tribal-services/department-natural-resources-2/ |title=Department of Natural Resources - The Hopi Tribe |access-date=2024-07-05}} the Hopi Reservation. During World War II, Banyacya was a draft resister, who spent time in prison over seven years each time he refused to register for the draft. In 1948, he was one of four Hopis (the other were David Monongye, Dan Evehema, and Dan Katchongva) who were named by elders to communicate Hopi traditional wisdom and teachings, including the Hopi prophecies for the future, to the general public, after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/us/thomas-banyacya-89-teller-of-hopi-prophecy-to-world.html "Thomas Banyacya, 89, Teller Of Hopi Prophecy to World."] New York Times. Feb 15, 1999 (retrieved Jan 28, 2011)
Banyacya died on February 6, 1999, in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He was married to Fermina (née Jenkins).{{Cite book |last=Oda |first=Mayumi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD_oDwAAQBAJ |title=Sarasvati's Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda—Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary |date=2020-11-10 |publisher=Shambhala Publications |isbn=978-0-8348-4325-7 |pages=76 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=February 7, 1968 |title=Rites Held For Samuel Jenkins |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/516077003/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Arizona Daily Sun |page=2 |language=en}}
See also
References
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- http://banyacya.indigenousnative.org/preun92.html Banyaca's letter to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
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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
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=disBZ6hgSrMC&dq=%22rolling+thunder%22+banyacya&pg=PA166 Native Americans in the twentieth century By James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson, VNR AG, 1984]
- [http://www.sonic.net/~kerry/banyacya/thomas.htm Remembering Thomas Banyacya]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110703114218/http://nuclear-free.com/english/banyacya.htm Testimony/ Thomas Banyacya Sr., World Uranium Hearings, 14 September 1992, Salzburg]
- [http://banyacya.indigenousnative.org Thomas Banyacya Hopi Traditional Elder]
- [http://www.wise-uranium.org/uip.html Uranium Mining and Indigenous People]
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