By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo: Kahentinetha Horn holds the Haudenosaunee passport at the Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas on Tohono O'odham land in 2007, as a Mohawk warrior holds the sacred Two Row belt. Photo Brenda Norrell.
Haudenosaunee resistance and Kahentinetha Horn, 71, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was the top story this week at Censored News. Kahentinetha suffered a heart attack from a stresshold applied by Canadian border guards, and now is being charged by the Border Guards. She recalls her history of resistance, from the Civil Rights Movement and Oka to the border.
Navajos resisting uranium mining protested at this week's inauguration of newly elected leaders. The Navajo elected leaders accepted funding for the inauguration from URI, the uranium mining company targeting Navajos in Church Rock, N.M. the site of the nation's worst uranium spill.
This week, the largest number of readers were from the United States, Canada, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom. Welcome to our readers in Jersey in the Channel Islands, among more than 500 new visitors to Censored News yesterday.
Here’s this week’s top five stories from Censored News for the week ending Jan. 14, 2011:
Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn: Resistance: The publisher of Mohawk Nation News now faces charges after suffering a heart attack induced by Canadian Border Guards
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/mohawk-kahentinetha-horn-resistance.html
Censored: Navajos protest uranium mining at inauguration
Bracing against the cold, Navajos protested the inauguration of newly-elected leaders who accepted funding for URI, targeting Navajos with more uranium mining:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/censored-navajos-protest-uranium-funded.html
Los Angeles: Halt removal of Tongva remains: American Indians are calling for a halt to the digging up of American Indian human remains at a Los Angeles cemetery:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/los-angeles-halt-removal-of-tongva.html
Also, listen to a broadcast from American Indian Airwaves on the desecration of Tongva remains (Jan. 11 archive):
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive
Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council gathering
Chief Oliver Red Cloud: ‘As Itancan of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, I am calling for a Wolakota Omniciye for the Tiospaye/Bands of the Oceti Sakowin. The gathering will be held on January 28 and 29, 2011.’
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/black-hills-sioux-nation-treaty-council.html
An Akwesasne film crew was back in court after racist attack by Virginia State Police. Leadhorse Choctaw is to be released today, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, after serving 10 days in jail following racist attack that was videotaped by the Indigenous film crew promoting Indigenous games to be held in Akwesasne:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/akwesasne-film-crew-in-court-after.html
Finally, the top Censored News story for the past six months was Canada's illegal wiretap of Mohawks, as exposed by Wikileaks:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/wikileaks-canadas-unauthorized-wiretaps.html
SUNDAY: Read the new articles on the radio broadcast from Lakotas' Bring Back the Way on Pine Ridge, S.D., and how a Wiki Spoof, satire, on Canada's Indian Minister took on a life of its own. The latest article is "Law Firm apologizes for insulting Yaqui prayer."
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contact: brendanorrell@gmail.com
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