Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 8, 2026

Mohawk Nation News 'Akwesasne Mohawks Oppose US Senate Bill 3475 to Claim NYS'


AKWESASNE MOHAWKS OPPOSE US SENATE BILL 3475 TO CLAIM NYS
Posted on September 7, 2026 by Shé:kon
Mohawk Nation News


MNN. SEP. 7, 2026. U.S. SENATE BILL 3475 IS A PIECE OF LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN THE 119TH CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE, RATIFY, AND CONFIRM THE AGREEMENT OF SETTLEMENT AND COMPROMISE RATIFYING THE AKWESASNE MOHAWK LAND CLAIM IN NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE.



Press Release Statement Opposing S.3475 Published July 28, 2026 Modified July 28, 2026

We are here today in the spirit of the Two Row Wampum, a concept that predates European settlement on this continent, but is the first treaty made by our ancestors with yours. We are not to interfere with one another’s affairs. Therefore our presence with you today is not to interfere with your affairs, it is to ensure that Bill S.3475 does not interfere with ours. We are here on behalf of Kanien’kehá:ka-Mohawk / Haudenosaunee Governance and Our Future Generations due to our responsibility for the land. Honourable Senators, representatives, officials, relatives, and all those gathered here today: We come before you with respect, humility, and a heavy responsibility; not as your constituents – as Kanien’kehá:ka-Mohawk Nation title holders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. We are here today to oppose the proposed Land Claim Settlement Agreement that would have adverse effects on our Indigenous system of governance, which predates the formation of both the U.S. and Canada. We speak today for the land, the water, the people, the women, the children, for the families, the hereditary leaders, the clans, the ancestors, and for the generations not yet born. We ask you to listen not only with your legal minds, but with your conscience. Because the matter before you is not only a bill before your legislature, this settlement would have long-reaching detrimental impacts.

September 4, 2026

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- While Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- while Federal Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Photo by Tucson Border Patrol

An Epstein survivor describes the child sex trafficking of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson, where she was a victim. She said detainees are being tortured to death during "trafficking tourism." At the same time, Tucson Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall contractors. Meanwhile, the media has ignored a cartel witness from Sinaloa, Mexico, who described the trafficking of young girls in the Epstein files.

Updates: Epstein, the Sinaloa Cartel, and more were at a golf course party in Los Angeles where a Hollywood producer is accused of strangling a girl to death, Mexico's media reports. link Update: Cryptocurrency, how it is used to launder money, scroll down.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 4, 2026

TUCSON -- It is one of the best kept secrets in the Epstein files.
Only one newspaper, in Mexico, reported it.

An FBI protected witness called TS-47, a former cartel operative in Sinaloa, Mexico, said the cartel provided Epstein with girls, 14 to 16 years old, who were trafficked through Laredo, Texas. The cartel operative said he provided girls to Epstein in the U.S. and Caribbean. The arrangements for the girls for "marketing parties" for investors were made at a New Jersey golf course. The current president of the U.S. is implicated, Excelsior reports.

This week, an Epstein survivor described how U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson were sex trafficking children as young as 9 years old.

"I am a survivor of presidential-level political blackmail and sexual espionage, blackmail trafficking," Heather said during a series of videos.

Heather was kidnapped and forced into Epstein's sex trafficking operations in Tucson, Arizona, from the time she was nine until she was thirteen years old.

She described how children in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson were trained and used for sex espionage of high profile people, for the purpose of blackmail.

Epstein's partner Ghislaine Maxwell would come to Tucson for the purpose of child sex espionage training in border patrol facilities, which was also carried out at a "dude ranch," Heather said.

She said she will soon release videos of people who were "un-alived."

She said she was brought in, with other children, because Customs and Border Protection did not have enough children for "trafficking tourism" in Tucson. She was also trafficked in Virginia as an adult. She was trafficked by the largest Christian organization in Washington DC at the time.

The most extreme, brutal and horrific content is worth the most to those who pay for trafficking tourism, she said.

That is why we hear about such extreme experiences coming out of some of these blackmail operations.

She said the best place to get away with really extreme violence is always going to be within a prison or a military black site or an ICE detention facility.

"This entire criminal underworld is so invisible to so many people," she said.

So far, the media has not reported this.

Tucson Border Patrol Seizes Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

The survivor's testimony comes at the same time that Tucson's Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own sovereign land, to issue citations to border wall construction crews.

Masked and armed federal agents swarmed onto the sovereign nation protecting border wall construction crews last week.

The crews immediately began drilling.

The federal agents were from the Border Patrol's special ops SWAT team based in El Paso; Tucson Border Patrol and BIA police.

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed a federal appeal of its case, after a federal judge ruled against the tribe. However, if the appeal isn't fast-tracked, the wall will be built before the case is heard. The border wall will block O'odham in their ancestral territory south of the border from their families in the U.S. The border wall construction will blow up six mountain peaks and destroy burial places and ceremonial places.

The armed intrusion of the Tohono O'odham Nation violates a federal judge's order for the U.S. to consult with the tribe before proceeding.

Further the media reports are misleading. Federal Judge Richard Leon did not decide ownership of the land along the border in his ruling. Judge Leon said it is "likely" Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-feet-wide strip along the border declared by presidential proclamation in 1907.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said it has been O'odham land since time immemorial and is now officially the tribal nation's land.

The Tohono O'odham Nation's federal lawsuit to halt construction of the border wall names the officials at US Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, and US Border Patrol, by name, as the defendants.

The head of US Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, is an enrolled Cherokee.

Epstein's Shadow in Mexico: Trafficking and the US Ambassador

Epstein was also in Mexico. Minors were trafficked from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and South Africa for Epstein, El Pais reports.
It reveals the alleged crime of the U.S. Ambassador with an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant, at the U.S. consulate building in Juarez, south of El Paso, Texas.

Mexican federal police found a vault of videos and offered those to U.S. authorities, El Pais reports.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been arrested all along the southern border for drug running, spotting for the cartels to bring their loads across, assault, kidnapping, serial rape and murder. The media has failed to report most of the crimes.

Extreme Violence of Victims in Border Patrol and ICE Facilities and Prisons

Heather, describing the violence in sex trafficking and tracking tourism in government facilities, said the most extreme -- brutal and horrific content -- is worth the most money.

"That is why we hear about such extreme experiences coming out of some of these blackmail operations."

She said the best place to get away with really extreme violence is always going to be within a prison or a military black site or an ICE detention facility.

"They already have a framework in place where torture is justified. It is possible."

She said it is not going to be seen by the public.

"They already have in place, they have all of these rooms that are walled off from each other, they have the physical facility. They have the detained, you know, imprisoned population."

She said they have guards, especially within ICE, that are hired intentionally who got kicked out of other police departments, or other places, for using excessive force and being really, really violent people.

"They're intentionally hiring people who are really really scary folks and they are grooming the guards to be increasingly violent. This is a grooming process just all around to create a culture where this is possible."

"And then you have all of these detained, you know, imprisoned people who have very very little access to attorneys or to phone calls or to any kind of ability to get those stories out into the outside world, it's just kind of a black box."

She said they created a situation where people don't seem to be as up in arms as we would hope when people go missing.

"There are a very large number of people missing from 'Alligator Alcatraz.' A very very large number. And why are there not riots in the street right now over where are these people?"

"There are missing humans, a very very large number of missing people from these facilities. There are dead people from these facilities where their deaths are not being investigated."

Speaking of the dead and disappeared in the 'Alligator Alcatraz,' she said, "I witnessed what's happening there. It hurts my brain so much. I kind of like panic and shut down. And I know that happens to a lot of us when we see these really upsetting things on the news."

"But now is not a time to."

"Check out, look at what happened to the Uyghur in China. What is happening right now to the Palestinians?"

Speaking on genocide, she then said, "That is coming for all of us. That was a mass grooming process to make us look away to explode our brains so that the horror was so extreme we would just like, cover our eyes and look away. They're doing to that to us to us now."

"They are grooming us to look away. We need to stand up and protest now before it is
too late over these missing people.

"There are missing humans. There are humans missing out of detention. There are dozens and dozens of of dead people who were murdered in detention. Many of whom are known to have been tortured to death. This is not the time for silence. This is not the time for complacency."

"There is genocide going on within ICE detention. I witnessed it going as far back as 1995."

Cryptocurrency: How it is used to launder money

Cryptocurrency was promoted by Epstein in Arizona, along with genetics and A.I. using non-profits to funnel money to promote this agenda.

There has been little, if any, media coverage in the U.S. of Epstein's involvement with the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.

Mexico's media has a few articles on it. These include Epstein's parties using trafficked girls, with cartel members, at a golf course in Los Angeles.

How does cryptocurrency work? This case, although apparently unrelated, shows how cryptocurrency is used for money laundering, to 'wash' and disappear it. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mexican-national-pleads-guilty-laundering-more-19m-drug-trafficking-proceeds

Epstein funded MIT, which was involved with numerous projects at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation. Further, MIT also carried out health screening for Navajo preschoolers on the western Navajo Nation, which included drawing blood. MIT also was involved with a Navajo individual in an enterprise that was promoted as a non-profit, but actually used cyber currency in a for-profit enterprise.

References

Witness TS-47 told the FBI that the Sinaloa cartel provided Epstein with girls in the U.S. and at Epstein's homes in the Caribbean. Excelsior reports.
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/fluia-trafico-ninas-mexico-epstein-cartel-sinaloa-detras

Epstein’s shadow in Mexico: A diplomat under scrutiny, thousands of videos and alleged ties to drug trafficking

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/epsteins-shadow-in-mexico-a-diplomat-under-scrutiny-thousands-of-videos-and-alleged-ties-to-drug-trafficking.html

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson's Customs and Border Protection in Tucson. Statements on videos :https://www.facebook.com/reel/909047761917053


On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfSHJCo5tQ


Censored News 2026




September 2, 2026

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs


Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is being bulldozed for a second border wall. Bulldozers are 0.7 miles from Quitobaquito Springs. Photo from video by Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity.

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 2, 2026

Bulldozers are now crushing the life of the natural world on Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, 0.7 miles from the sacred ceremonial place of O'odham, Quitobaquito Springs. It is home to three endangered species, a pupfish, a snail, and a mud turtle.

One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona


One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona

One land defender turned around a bunch of military, National Guard, today, with a cop rented helicopter coming to the rescue. At the end of the day, the land defenders are still there. Great work KPFA Radio on the ground. O'odham are with land defenders at the tree sit in Lochiel, Arizona, where they don't back down. 'No border wall.' -- Censored News.

By KPFA, Sept. 2, 2026

Tribal members and activists are continuing to occupy tree sits, blockades and a prayer camp at several points along the U.S. / Mexico border in Arizona to resist the expansion of the Trump administration’s border wall, which they say amounts to ecocide and violates Tribal sovereignty.

In Lochiel, Arizona, tensions escalated this morning, with additional federal law enforcement entering areas near the encampment.