Spying on Activists -- Dine' Klee Benally, Vicam Yaqui, and Zapatistas were Targeted

Spying on Activists -- Dine' Klee Benally, Vicam Yaqui, and Zapatistas were Targeted by Tucson and Phoenix police, Tohono O'odham government, and Mexican military

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 7, 2024

Democracy Now reports on Pegasus spyware in cell phones. It is a reminder of how our friend Klee Benally, Dine', was spied on by the Tohono O'odham Nation government as he protested the US Border Patrol, and the Salt River Project, and its role in poisoning Dine' with its coal-fired power plant.

The Tohono O'odham Nation government was the first tribal government to become part of a secretive inter-agency tribal/state/federal law enforcement Fusion Center that shared data.

Mohawk Nation News 'Kahnawake Longhouse Opposes Akwesasne Land Settlement'

New at Mohawk Nation News: Read article at MNN:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/12/19/kahnawake-longhouse-opposes-akwesasne-land-settlement/

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Identified that Murdered Raymond Mattia

 

U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Identified

Tucson Sentinel, reporter Paul Ingram, reports:

"Three Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of a Tohono O'odham man in front of his home in 2023 were identified in legal filings on Friday.

"Earlier this year, the family of 58-year-old Raymond Mattia filed a lawsuit, accusing Border Patrol of excessive force and demanding the names of the agents who killed him.

"Attorneys Ryan Stitt and Marcus Bourassa filed an amended complaint, and on Friday issued a summons for Border Patrol Agents Scott Whitehouse, Dan Sifuentes, and Ivan Torralva, who they said "shot and killed Raymond for no reason."

Choking with grief, Myron Dewey's family described their loss, as court hands down minimal sentence

Update: The driver of the truck that killed Paiute journalist Myron Dewey is an engineer with the same Reno, Nevada, mining company that did the initial testing for lithium mining at Hualapai's ceremonial spring in Arizona. The Hualapai Nation filed a federal lawsuit against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland for the mining permit issued to Hawkstone Mining, an Australian company.

"Kappes, Cassidy and Associates (KCA) was selected for the test work in May 2018," states NS Energy Business, reporting on the lithium testing at the Big Sandy lithium project.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/big-sandy-lithium-project/

The Reno company, which has contracts and mining sites around the world on Indigenous lands, was forced out of Guatemala after Indigenous mining protesters were attacked and beaten. https://earthworks.org/blog/guatemalans-demand-right-to-say-no-to-a-nevada-owned-gold-mine/

Choking with grief, Myron Dewey's family described their loss, as the court handed down a minimal sentence for the driver of the truck who killed Myron

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

June 6, 2023

PAHRUMP, Nevada -- Choking with grief and shaken from trauma, Myron Dewey's family described the horrific loss and life-threatening depression that now follows the death of the one they loved so deeply. Myron's daughter, sons, and wife described their unbearable grief, and his sister described the agony of watching Myron die, crushed inside his car.

After describing the agonizing loss of the one they loved so deeply, the driver of the truck that killed Myron in a head-on collision, John Walsh, a mining engineer who lives in Reno, received a minimal sentence. 

Honoring Courage During A Year of Genocide -- Solidarity with Palestine in Indian Country

Honoring Courage During A Year of Genocide -- Solidarity with Palestine in Indian Country

Image by Censored News

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 19, 2024

Censored News honors the courage of Native People who stood in solidarity with Palestine and spoke out against genocide. During a year of genocide, most of the media in the United States published distractions and false narratives, aiding and abetting in war crimes and genocide.

Laveen Village, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived. As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: "There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! Land Back." Calling out to Biden, an O'odham woman yelled, "What about the people in Gaza! What about the people in Palestine!"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html