Apache Stronghold Oak Flat Run, Feb. 15 -- 18, 2024

The Apache Stronghold invites you and your family to next weekend's 10th Annual Oak Flat March and Run, February 15-18th. More details about the 45-mile march are included below. If you have questions about attending and participating, you can respond to this email. Please share this flyer with your communities. All are welcome!

10th Annual Chi'chil Bildagoteel
Oak Flat March/Run
February 15-18, 2024
Thursday, Feb 15th, 4 pm Holy Ground Blessing and Dinner at Old San Carlos Monument, Run will follow after blessing.
Friday, Feb 16, 8 am March and Run will begin at the New Skate Park (Sports Complex) and will end in Miami, Arizona, at the Shrine.
Saturday, Feb 17, 8am March and Run will begin at the Shrine in Miami, Arizona, to Oak Flat
1 pm -- Pomo Blessing
1:20 pm -- Tohono O'odham Blessing
1:40 pm -- Red Mountain Thacker Pass
2 pm -- Common Defense
2:20 pm -- Prayer Rising
2:40 pm -- Song and Prayer
4 pm -- Gaan Blessing

If camping, please bring warm clothes, camping gear, chairs and sanitation supplies. Meals will be provided.

Visit www.apache-stronghold.com to find out more about the fight for Oak Flat and how you can support the Apache Stronghold.

Celebrating Water -- 'Rumble on the Mountain' Powerful Music to Halt Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon

Hopi singer and composer Ryon Polequaptewa, spoke on the sacred cedar which lends itself to make the Hopi flute, and of the sacred space of Hopi, where there is "very little rain, but an abundance of life." Listen to his performance at Rumble on the Mountain. Screenshot by Censored News. Watch  https://www.facebook.com/edkabotie

Songs from the Water

Rumble on the Mountain 10: Native Voices of the Colorado Plateau in opposition to uranium mining in the Grand Canyon

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, February 3, 2024

Translation into French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8346

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona -- In a beautiful tribute, Ed Kabotie, Hopi, performed "The Trail," honoring those who have passed, making their journey among the stars, during the seven-hour Rumble on the Mountain at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.

Kabotie remembered Dine' artist Baje Whitethorne, Sr., Rainy Ortiz, daughter of Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo, and Dine' Klee Benally. Kabotie said Icy Whisper, the band, had a death in the family and was not able to be at Rumble.

Carletta Tilouisi, Havasupai said, "Our Havasupai youth danced and sang for the earth people, animals, and waters. We have been participating in “Rumble on the Mountain” for 10 years. Thank you to Ed Kabotie and to all the talented musicians for all your support and advocacy! Hangyu!" Photo courtesy Carletta Tilousi, Censored News

During the extraordinary lineup of stars during the 10th Rumble on the Mountain, Kabotie spoke of war, a war of the paradigms and philosophies, and of industrial mining which has no respect for the people or value of the land.

Mohawk Nation News 'Discovering Dead Children Fed to Pigs Under Quebec Liquor Board Warehouse'

 Read the article at Mohawk Nation News https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/02/07/discovering-dead-children-fed-to-pigs-under-quebec-liquor-board-warehouse/

Native Children Starved, Victims of Medical Experiments, in Boarding and Residential Schools

Fort Albany Sisters of Charity of Ottawa National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

Native Children Starved, Victims of Medical Experiments, in Boarding and Residential Schools

By Brenda Norrell

Research by Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine'

Censored News, Feb. 6, 2024

Native children were starved during food experiments in residential schools in Canada, and left sick and untreated during medical experiments in boarding schools in the United States. Native women were sterilized without their consent by Indian Health Service. In IHS hospitals, the medical experiments range from controversial radioactive infusions to experimental vaccines.

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', said, "It is critical that Navajo people and boarding school survivors, including but not limited to Tuba City, are aware of the medical experimentations that were carried out on Indigenous children during these years."

Trachoma research was carried out on Native American children in three boarding schools: Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada; Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah; and Tuba City Boarding School in Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, 1967 -- 68 and 1972 --73.

"The central question of the report focused on whether the Proctor Foundation obtained informed consent from these children’s parents before conducting its research," writes Samantha Williams. "Because Proctor viewed the IHS as the acting legal guardian of boarding school students, its researchers reasoned there was no need for parental consent."

Mohawk Mothers are now in court to secure the search for unmarked graves at the hospital site of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The U.S. CIA's MK-Ultra mind control experiments used drugs, electroshock, and torture at Allan Memorial Hospital. A survivor, who was a teen at the time, said Native children were among her fellow victims. She saw the hospital staff digging graves at night with red shovels.

Mohawk Nation News 'Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Waste to be Dumped into St. Lawrence River'

 Read the article at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/02/05/air-products-chemicals-inc-waste-to-be-dumped-into-st-lawrence-ri/