Blackfire, sounding out strength and resistance!

Special thanks to Jeneda, Klee and Clayson Benally and their father Jones Benally for driving all those miles to perform in San Xavier for the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas! Thanks for your good words to protect San Francisco Peaks from wastewater and support for Navajos resisting the power plant at Desert Rock, the self-determination movement of the Maori who were arrested recently, the struggle of Apaches for Mount Graham, the Zapatistas movement for Indigenous autonomy and justice and all the of the struggles for dignity and humanity for the sake of the Seven Generations to come.

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Photos: Jones Benally, who sang traditional Dine' songs with the family band, with KXCI Radio News Director Amanda Shauger. (2)Rockin' out sounds. (3)Jeneda with her 15-month-0ld daughter. Photos Brenda Norrell

Yaqui delegation detained enroute to Indigenous Border Summit

A delegation of Yaquis from Sonora, Mexico, were detained at the US/Mexico border for 11 hours without food or water, enroute to the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007. The delegation persevered and arrived to share their critical information on how pesticides banned in the United States are killing Yaqui in Rio Sonora, six hours drive south of the border. "Jelly babies," babies born without bones, have been born in the Yaqui Pueblos. The other place the "jelly babies" are found is in the Pacific Islands, where mothers are the victims of extensive nuclear testing. (Photo: Members of the Yaqui delegation from Sonora interviewed on earthcycles.net for summit webcast. Photo Brenda Norrell) Article coming ...