Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 1, 2026

OAK FLAT: SACRED CHI’CHIL BIł’DAGOTEEL MARCH/RUN FEBUARY 5-8, 2026


12TH ANNUAL SACRED CHI’CHIL BIł’DAGOTEEL OAK FLAT MARCH/RUN FEBUARY 5-8, 2026

12th ANNUAL SACRED
CHI’CHIL BIł’DAGOTEEL OAK FLAT MARCH/RUN
February 5-8 pm, 2026

Thursday, Feb 5th - 4 pm Holy Ground Blessing and Dinner at Old San Carlos Monument. Run will follow after blessing

Friday, Feb 6th- 8 am March/Run will begin at the New Skate Park (Sport Complex) and will end in Miami, Arizona, at the Shrine

Saturday, Feb 7th - 8 am Run will begin at the Shrine in Miami, Arizona, to Oak Flat

Sunday, Feb 8th - 9 am Holy Ground Blessing at Oak Flat and then departure

Jingle Dance for Healing in Minneapolis



Jingle Dance for Healing in Minneapolis


January 31, 2026

Bizarre Message from Demoted U.S. Border Patrol Czar at Mount Rushmore on Lakotas Sacred Black Hills


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U.S. Border Patrol's Greg Bovino at Mount Rushmore. Video by Nick Sortor

Bizarre Message from Demoted U.S. Border Patrol Czar at Mount Rushmore on Lakotas Sacred Black Hills

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 31, 2026

UPDATE: The two Border Patrol agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been identified by ProPublica. Both are from South Texas. Link

The demoted head of the U.S. Border Patrol operations in Minneapolis delivered a bizarre message at Mount Rushmore, as his caravan snaked its way back across the west. Lakotas said the presence of Greg Bovino on their ancestral lands in the Black Hills was a violation of the sacred.

Bovino's message comes after the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol in Minneapolis, and the illegal arrests and assaults of Native people there.

At Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Bovino referred to the chiseled rock heads of the four U.S. presidents behind him, as the original 'turn and burn' -- the folks that helped make America.

Bovino said he's proud of what the "mean green machine" is doing in Minneapolis and calls them the 'modern day equivalent' of the original turn and burn presidents.

January 28, 2026

Oglala President Bans ICE and U.S. Border Patrol from Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota

 

Lakota roadblock in 2020

Oglala President Bans ICE and U.S. Border Patrol from Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 28, 2026

Oglala Lakota President Frank Star Comes Out issued a Presidential Proclamation today banning both ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol from the Oglala Lakota Nation. The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council banned ICE, and rejected an agreement to work with immigration officials, on January 21.

President Star Comes Out points out in the Proclamation today that the U.S. Border Patrol is working with ICE in its "unlawful conduct against Native people in Minneapolis" -- which is within the Aboriginal Territory of the Great Sioux Nation.

Calling it "egregious conduct," the President's Proclamation states that ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are targeting minorities throughout the United States, and Native people are being detained and injured, in violation of Treaties and civil rights.

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION AND OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE ORDINANCE

Navajos Warn of Secretive Tribal Government Reform


Dine' Grassroots Coalition members read a statement of opposition to a secretive tribal government reform proposal, in front of the Navajo Nation Council's winter session on Tuesday. Screenshot by Censored News.

Navajos Warn of Secretive Tribal Government Reform 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 27, 2026

Navajos warned of a secretive Navajo government reform that is underway that would change Diné life, and silence the voices of the people for generations to come.

Chili Yazzie, former Shiprock Council Delegate and Chapter President, said proposing the government reform as a "yes or no" question for the Dine' voters on the ballot in 2026 is "an abuse of our people."

Speaking during the press conference at the Navajo Nation Council chambers on Tuesday morning, Herb Yazzie, retired Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation, pointed out the harm that could come.