Christine Prat, Friend and Translator, Passes to Spirit World
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 9, 2026 Updated
It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news of the passing of Christine Prat, our friend and translator. Christine translated Censored News into French. We met through our mutual friend Klee Benally, more than a decade ago. She translated Klee's book, No Spiritual Surrender, into French, and struggled till the end with cancer to translate our stories and share them with the world.
Christine never compromised, supported Palestine and the fight against Elbit's Israeli spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
After the U.S. denied her a visa to enter the United States in later years, she never backed down, and continued her work in France. She began the translations with the Hopi Nation's struggle to protect sacred San Francisco Peaks 14 years ago.
Christine's translations were among the most censored at Censored News, including the water rights struggle of Yaqui in Sonora. Many were assassinated after blocking the highway in defense of the water.
In French and English, her stories were read around the world, stories with the voices from Big Mountain, Standing Rock, Oak Flat, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Peehee Mu'hah, and the desert borderlands. She wrote of Angela Davis in Paris, the struggle for Peltier's release, and the Native women's delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and those who testified in Jamaica.
We remember her courage, her boldness, and send our condolences to her husband Theo and their family.
Christine struggled until the end. This is the last message I received from her in April. as she was dying of cancer.
"Sorry for not answering and doing nothing, I am very ill and it is difficult to do anything. However, I do want to go on. At the moment, I am collecting articles about lithium mines projects. We are threatened in France, as well as many other countries. As I have translated quite a lot of articles about PeeHee Mu'hu, I would like to translate or write more articles about lithium mines, all in two languages, trying to make a link between all victims of mining. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish, as there are also lithium mines projects in South America.
Electric cars, lithium, cobalt, AI, etc., we got a general attack on the world.
Hope I'll manage to at least start something before I pass to the other world."'
.jpg)
