Legacies in Film: Zapatistas and Dineh Bennie Klain Inspiring Generations

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Marcos in Comandantes

Legacies in Film: Zapatistas and Dineh Bennie Klain Inspiring Generations

By Brenda Norrell

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Subcomandante Marcos tells the story of "why we walk, and "why we die to live." Dineh filmmaker Bennie Klain's films exposed racism and gave voice to the survivors of both uranium mining and John Wayne at Monument Valley.

“We have nothing and that is what causes the movement of our resistance,” says Subcomandante Marcos, in “Caminantes." The documentary tells the story of Indigenous people walking to their homes, villages, and fields.

Where the Desert Meets the Sea: Termination as a Reporter and a New Beginning

Where the Desert Meets the Sea: Termination as a Reporter and a New Beginning

By Brenda Norrell

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We're winding up our 16th year at Censored News. It wasn't planned. It began with a simple website, showing what was censored by Indian Country Today before editors fired me in 2006. There were the censored words of Buffy Sainte Marie, Louise Benally of Big Mountain, and many more.

The telephone call, firing me as a longtime ICT staff reporter, came just hours before the border summit began. A large delegation of Mohawk Warriors had just arrived in Tucson from the north and I was on my way over to San Xavier to cover it. Mohawks joined Tohono O'odham and those who live on the border.