Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 9, 2026

Live Flight: US Drone Surveillance over Tohono O'odham Nation and Southern Border

Update November 10, 2026

This military drone continued surveillance over the Arizona border Tuesday evening. It uses various fake identifications and appears on radar as a helicopter. The military says it uses drone to search for enemy drones of the cartels and eliminates these with directed energy lasers. Flight Radar shows these drones leaving the Arizona border and then above Mexico and other countries.

An army helicopter from Tucson circled the Tohono O'odham Nation at the border Tuesday evening, while a military drone was above carrying out surveillance all along the entire Arizona border. A federal hearing is scheduled Dec. 1 as the Tohono O'odham Nation continues to fight the takeover of its land by the federal government and build a double border wall, dividing O'odham who live on both sides of this imposed line on their ancestral land. O'odham have been here since time immemorial. The National Congress of American Indians have joined this fight to uphold tribal sovereignty.

Update November 9, 2026 
(Below) This military surveillance drone is quickly passing over the Tohono O'odham Nation at the border tonight. The U.S. military drone is zipping all along the Arizona border and shows numerous trips to areas north of the tourist area of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. The military says its drones are searching for "enemy drones" of the Mexican cartels and eliminating those with directed energy lasers. The ACLU questions what type surveillance is being collected in U.S. communities.

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Above: The drone was above this area in Mexico today, north of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on Nov. 9, passing back and forth from the Arizona border.


Above: The military drone over Tohono O'odham Nation tonight and the entire Arizona border, Nov. 9, 2026.

Previously at Censored News:

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 29, 2026

LIVE FLIGHT Thursday at 6 am: This drone is now quickly going back and forth over the Tohono O'odham Nation and southern border. It comes after a day of disturbing helicopter surveillance by the army and US Border Patrol out of Tucson circling above the area of the prayer camp near San Miguel Gate on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

November 7, 2026

In the Language of Food, Apache Chef Nephi Craig


The long journey home in the language of food.

Apache Chef Nephi Craig's new book, 'Our Knives Will Save Us'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 7, 2026

A judge changed his life. Instead of going to jail, he went to culinary school. He was facing a felony charge, and instead of going to jail, he was given probation on the condition he work or go to school.

Nephi Craig chose culinary school and the quest for the profound revelations within  Indigenous foods, tomato, cocoa, and amaranth, were among them. This took him around the world.