White Eyes' lies and the battle for dzil nchaa si'an. (big seated mountain)(To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality, Part 3, Historical Reflections)

Apache objections to the construction of a mountaintop observatory are based in cultural and historical ties to the site. Known to non-natives as Mt. Graham and to the Apaches as dzil nchaa si'an, or big seated mountain, the site is religiously significant as a source of divine power. Apaches are also mountain dwellers, and have occupied the region in question for many centuries.

The things of our minds have for us a greater toughness than external reality.... in some ways so strong as to blot out the external things completely.

Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

A lie can make it ...

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