Paddle to Muckleshoot: Honoring the Beauty

 Paddle to Muckleshoot: Honoring the Beauty

By Northwest Treaty Tribes, Censored News, July 31, 2023

"We've been expecting you," said Jason Elkins, Chair of the Muckleshoot Tribal Council.

Elkins was greeting one of the many canoes that approached Alki Beach on Sunday, the celebratory landing day of the Muckleshoot Canoe Journey. Under sunny skies, tribes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond celebrated participating in the culturally important journey once again after several years off because of COVID.

Prior to arriving at Alki, the canoes had departed from Suquamish that morning, where they had a day of rest before the final push.

United Nations: Black Hills Under Threat from Mining: Water is Defining Issue

United Nations: Black Hills Under Threat from Mining: Water is Defining Issue

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 31, 2023

GENEVA -- The sacred Black Hills are under threat from mining companies, threatening the water sources, Wakinyan LaPointe, Lakota, told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"Our sacred Black Hills are under threat of destruction by multinational mining corporations and lack of state preventative measures," LaPointe told the United Nations EMRIP, which reports to the UN Human Rights Council.

"The sacred Black Hills located within Lakota homelands are protected under the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties, ratified by the United States and the Lakota Nation and proclaimed the Supreme Law of the Land."

DOWNWIND Wins Prize at Cordillera Film Fest -- Western Shoshone Never Consented to Atomic Bomb Detonations

Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte at Cordillera Film Festival. Courtesy Photo

Downwind tells Western Shoshone story left untold by Oppenheimer's film

Native Community Action Council, July 29, 2023, Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat

On Saturday, July 29, 2023, the documentary DOWNWIND won the jury prize at the Cordillera International Film Festival after the Nevada premiere in Reno. DOWNWIND features the victims exposed to radiation in the fallout from the testing of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and their patriotic response to bring attention to the 928 secret tests conducted between 1951-1992.

The US Atomic Energy Commission, now the Department of Energy, called the people living DOWNWIND, “a low-use segment of the population” and therefore, Americans not worthy of protection from the adverse consequences of radiation in the fallout from nuclear weapons testing.

“We are Americans, and deserve equal protection under the law,” said Principal Man Ian Zabarte of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation. Further, he said, “Native American land binds this great nation together. The Shoshone people were never informed and never consented to the occupation and use of our sacred Mother Earth for nuclear weapons testing.”

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, murder with impunity

United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Human Rights Council

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, Murder with Impunity

Native Hawaiians and Indigenous in Guam want the US military out; Russian youths want an end to war


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

July 17, updated July 29, 2023

GENEVA -- Native Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the Pacific shut down. An aquifer has been poisoned in Honolulu, and unexploded ordinances left behind make lands inaccessible.

Christopher Edward said the U.S. military installation in Hawaii is the largest in the world, 200,000 acres, and has resulted in the displacement of Native Hawaiians from their traditional lands. Edward testified before the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Edward joined Indigenous from around the world in reporting human rights abuses, during the session, "The Impact of Militarization on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Russia's Indigenous Share Struggle with Paiute Shoshone: Battling Fake Green

 

Siberian Times reported, "Shocking pictures reveal colour of Daldykan River with locals claiming the waste from a nickel plant is to blame. The Polar Division of Norilsk Nickel does not confirm a leak of emergency discharge of industrial waste into the Daldykan River which could have affected its state.' Picture: Vkontakte

Russia's Arctic Indigenous Share Common Struggle with Paiute Shoshone in Nevada: Battling the Fake Green Monster

Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 28, 2023

Indigenous in Russia's Arctic share a common struggle with Paiute Shoshone in Nevada. They have been fighting the green hype proclaiming disastrous mining as the new green. In Nevada, Paiute Shoshone are battling Lithium Americas, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site for lithium.

In Russia's far north some of the world's worst environmental disasters have occurred from nickel mining, chasing the dollars for metals for electric car batteries.

We seldom hear about this in the U.S. The testimony at the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, in July, opened a door, sharing the common struggles, and how corporations target remote Indigenous lands for destructive mining, and then destroy the land and water, while politicians promote it all, and could care less about carcinogens in the rivers and the desecration of sacred places.

Peru Approves US Soldiers as Indigenous Women Plead for Help at United Nations

Photo: Today in Peru, Indigenous Women Lead Protests Photo credit TeleSur

Peru Approves US Soldiers as Indigenous Women Plead for Help at United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 28, 2023

There was an enormous amount of testimony before the United Nations and much of it we never hear about. Mothers in Peru, desperate for help, said children are being murdered, as those who marched against the current coup are being stalked and killed. Between December and March, Peru's police and army killed 77 people during protests.

Peru voted to bring in the US military, from June until December 2023. The US soldiers in Peru are from US special forces, the US air force, and the US space force, according to Merco Press.

In the jungles of Peru, Indigenous women have no way to battle US special forces and US satellites. Indigenous in the Amazon testified to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

US Troops Deployed in Peru https://en.mercopress.com/2023/06/26/us-troops-deployed-in-peru-for-joint-exercises 

Censored News original series: Testimony at UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Part I: U.N. Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples, and Stories of Hope

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-hears-of-devastation-for.html

Part II: Impact of Militarization on Indigenous Peoples: Murder with Impunity from Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html

Part III: Defending Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/defending-sacred-places-and-sacred.html

MNN: 'McGill Security 'Mama' Tries to Attack Mohawks'

Posted on July 27, 2023

McGill Security 'Mama' Tries to Attack Mohawks



Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2023/07/27/mcgill-security-mama-tries-to-attack-mohawks/

MNN. July 27, 2023. Work to uncover human remains has stopped. Search dogs detected human remains on June 9th in front of the Hersey Pavilion of the old Royal Victoria Hospital RVH in Montreal. On July 25th 2023 Indigenous elders and cultural monitors were aggressed by security guards. At approximately 15:30 the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) and Indigenous cultural monitors were preparing to leave work. The cultural monitors observe work being done to uncover human remains at the RVH, as provided by a Settlement Agreement between the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) and a slew of Defendants, including the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) and McGill University. An injunction was obtained on October 2022 to halt excavation work for the New Vic project to search for unmarked graves of children killed by medical experiments in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Cultural monitors were present when Historic Human Remains Detection Dogs (HHRDD) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) were used on the site earlier in July, with no incident. A good working relationship had been reached with the archaeologists of Ethnoscop who were now charged with excavating the soil in a 10-meter radius around the target identified by the dogs HHRDD. At 3:30 the work day came to an end. Suddenly three individuals presented themselves at the top of the hill as security personnel. They wore no identification and refused to disclose their names so It was impossible to verify whether they were accredited security guards or vigilantes. They also refused to name their clients.

One Mohawk Mother went to talk with them while the other cultural monitors were finishing a meeting and preparing to leave. One of the security guards, a female, presented herself as the “boss” of SQI security. She immediately threatened to call the police to usher the Mohawk Mothers and cultural monitors off the site. The Mohawk Mother was shocked by the aggressive tone of the women and her haste to throw out kanienkehaka Mohawk observers when office hours were not even over yet. She reminded the security guards that Mohawk monitors were present as part of a court order and a settlement agreement to make sure excavation work was consistent with Indigenous protocols regarding burial sites and to conduct ceremonies. The woman said she knew nothing about it and aggressively insisted that everyone vacate the site immediately. She dialed the police. The Mohawk Mother then informed the rest of the group about what was happening. They had not been directly notified to immediately leave. One person opened his telephone to record the incident. When the “boss” saw that she was being filmed by someone, she brutally jumped on him, grabbed the telephone from his hands and gave it to her colleague, who erased it. Another person present then realized the gravity of the situation and turned on his camera from afar. The video, available here – https://ufile.io/v27xu0al – shows some of the outrageous insults that the SQI security used against the Indigenous elders and cultural monitors as they were leaving the site, to avoid being subjected to violence. They were told that the police would “squish you out”, that they should “go and have some kids” and “go and get a life because I don’t think you have a life”, and to “go back to your kids if you have any, I don’t think you have any”.

Mohawk Mother Kahentinetha responded “what about our kids that were murdered and that you’re benefiting from?” The security lady said “That’s right, we’re benefiting from it. That’s exactly right”. This violent incident was highly traumatic for the Indigenous elders, survivors and cultural monitors present, reminding them of brutality being used by security personnel against Indigenous people, especially women. Indigenous observers do not feel safe going at the site to carry out their duties under the eye of a security firm which aggressed them verbally and physically.: grabbing their telephone and erasing evidence, yelling and insulting blasphemous and offensive language and refusing to disclose their identity as a security guard which is illegal according to S-3.5, r. 3 – Regulation respecting standards of conduct of agent licence holders carrying on a private security activity. A complaint is being filed by the Mohawk Mothers with the Bureau de la Securité Privée. The SQI has refused to disclose the identity of the security guards, what their instructions were and whether they had received cultural competency training.

In view of the the threat posed by the personnel hired by the SQI the Indigenous elders and cultural monitors, the latter cannot come to the site anymore. The SQI insists that work must continue, and that the particular security guard will no longer be present. SQI failed to respond to basic questions about the instructions that were given to their security guards and their identity. Because of the threat continuation of excavation work would breach the Settlement Agreement. All parties except the SQI – including the Panel of archaeologists overseeing the work, as well as Ethnoscop – have agreed to halt the work until the situation is resolved. The Mohawk Mothers have been voicing concerns about security issues on the site for several months, and failed to get a response from the Defendants. They requested a security expert be on the Panel overseeing the work.

84 year old Mohawk Mother Kahentinetha, reacted to the events by explaining that “our law and our culture forbids us from exposing our people to elder abuse, mental stress and physical threats. We. cannot carry out our duties as cultural monitors under duress and the threat of violence. We devoted all our energies to investigating the truth about what was being done to our children at this hospital so we want to continue the work immediately. Our people need answers to our questions about what happened with those security guards and whether they were instructed to use such aggression with us”.

Mohawk Mother Kwetiio added: “It’s common decency to secure the site with a firm that doesn’t end up attacking our elders, alleging that they are unaware of who we are and why we are present on the site. If we had not been there McGill and SQI would already be constructing their vast project on our land, ignoring the human remains that were detected thanks to our efforts and that of our allies and experts. An investigation must be immediately conducted on whether the security guards were instructed to assault us”. For more information, contact ka***********@ri****.net or 514-463-8835. O:nen Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera

This situation reminds us of Woodstock when the Clowns of the Hog Farm were in charge of security. The McGill attacker[s] claimed to be security for McGill and pretended they had authority over everyone.

Here’s some relief from Joni Mitchell singing about “Woodstock”.
Music video: https://youtu.be/cRjQCvfcXn0

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, “Where are you going?”
And this he told me
“I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m gonna join in a rock ‘n’ roll band
I’m gonna camp out on the land
I’m gonna try an’ get my soul free”
We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden. . .

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U.N. Australian Aboriginals Battle Genocide, Inuit Fight for Fishing Rights, as Indigenous Lands Seized Worldwide

Inuit in Pangnirtung, Canada/Photo Doug Struck

Australian Aboriginals, Inuit, and Original Inhabitants of Nigeria and Bangladesh tell of Genocide, Fishing Rights Loss and Land Seizures

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 27, 2023

GENEVA -- Australian Aboriginals told the United Nations that Australia continues its ongoing genocide. After 14 years, the Australian government has not implemented the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The United Nations was asked to investigate Australia and why the U.N. Declaration has been merely "aspirational" over the past 14 years.

Jayne Christian, Baramadagal of Dharug, told the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that Australia continues its genocide as it fails to investigate deaths in custody and continues inaction on murdered and missing Indigenous women. Aboriginal children are seized from their homes. Aboriginal sacred places are being destroyed.

Free Victor: Imprisoned Water and Land Protector in Georgia: In Defense of Tortuguita

 "It was not a crime to join my voice with the voices of many asking for justice for a mother grieving her child — Tortuguita."

By Victor

Censored News

“After three months of incarceration in one of the most dilapidated jails in the South — a place famous for its violence and for multiple cases of human rights abuse — I wish to speak out as the carceral state that took my freedom away continues its oppression. After finally being released on bond from DeKalb County, I was immediately detained by ICE and driven to Stewart Detention Center, a jail for migrants and refugee people. Georgia has not criminally indicted me at any point, but I still sit in a cage. Although it’s a new cell I’m in, the conditions are the same. The degradation, the 23 hours of lockdown, the complete lack of freedom and agency, the constant surveillance, and in this place, the perpetual threat of deportation from my home and my family hanging over my head.

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Mohawk Nation News 'Remembering the Arguments of Deskaheh'

REMEMBERING THE ARGUMENTS OF DESKAHEH [Posted Feb. 10, 2021]

Posted on July 23, 2023

Mohawk Nation News

MNN. July 23, 2023. This speech was delivered on Nov. 10th, 2002, to the YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND Conference at McGill University 

A REMINDER TO THOSE WHO FORGOT WHY DESKAHE WENT TO GENEVA. READ THE REAL FACTS!

IERA’KWAH DIPLOMACY.

1.OPENING. Canada’s Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples now admits that the relationship between the indigenous people and the uninvited Europeans began with the teio’hateh, Two Row Wampum agreement. Two entities agree to live separately according to the kaianerekowa, the great peace, or leave. We allowed them to live here temporarily – with us in our canoe and they in their ships. We would share only the river. The indigenous peoples and the newcomers belonged to different families with different languages, culture, laws and ways of life. Europe’s monarchs acknowledged we were not their subjects and they could not interfere with our laws and customs. As turtle island is all indigenous land, we provided to the European “social groups” the use of land the depth of a plow to grow food. They could never own it or form a political party. They needed our permission to do anything on our land.  

Philippines Labeling Indigenous 'Terrorists' to Silence Them -- United Nations Told

"We urgently call for the support of EMRIP and member states to ensure justice, peace, and the protection of our rights through an independent investigation into the human rights situation, particularly concerning Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines." -- Bevery L. Longid

Study and advice on the impact of militarization on the rights of Indigenous Peoples 

Presented by: Beverly L. Longid, Katribu, National Convener

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) Sixteenth Session, Agenda Item 3, July 17-21, 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

We, the Katribu National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines, the Sandugo Alliance of Indigenous and Moro Peoples, the Bai Philippine Network of Indigenous Women, Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), Defend Panay Network, TUMANDUK, and the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL), submit this statement on the impact of militarization on our rights, culture, and existence.

Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations

Deskaheh Steve Jacobs https://twitter.com/i/status/1680910453554159616

Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 22, 2023

Breaking news, article in progress

GENEVA -- Deskaheh Steve Jacobs provided the opening prayer but said he will not address the United  Nations until the Haudenosaunee is recognized as a government. Jacob's prayer began the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this week in Geneva, with weeklong global testimony focused on militarization, protecting the sacred, and violations of human rights.

Earlier this week, the City of Geneva installed 30 large double-sided photo panels along Lake Geneva telling the story of Deskaheh's journey and the development of relations between the City of Geneva and Indigenous Peoples worldwide.

Deskaheh – Levi General, is considered the first Indigenous Person to have raised the issue of loss of autonomy and dispossession of First Nations – Indigenous peoples by colonizing states at the international level. https://www.indiantime.net/story/2023/07/20/news/haudenosaunee-delegation-in-geneva-for-100th-anniversary-of-deskahehs-arrival/42727.html

"In 1923 Deskaheh, Chief of the Iroquois League, representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, leaves Canada to go on a mission to Geneva, Switzerland. He hopes to attend the League of Nations (now the United Nations) in order to have it recognize the sovereignty of the Iroquois.

MNN 'Child Rejected from Indigenous Games for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination'

CHILD REJECTED FROM INDIGENOUS GAMES FOR REFUSING COVID-19 VACCINATION

Posted on July 22, 2023

 

Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2023/07/22/child-rejected-from-indigenous-games-for-refusing-covet19-vaccination/ 

 

MNN. July 22, 2023. Kahionhatatie Cree 13, an Onkwehonwe from the Kanienkehaka territory of Kahnawake, was denied access to play with her soccer team “Eastern Door and the North”, at the North American Indigenous Games in Halifax this week. She trained all year, then a provision was made that athletes required a COVID19 vaccination upon registration in December. I submitted a letter for exemption based on our traditional standing. At 10 pm on July 22, six hours before her bus was to depart to Halifax, Jessie Messier, phoned me informing me that my daughter could not go to the games and if she did she would be given a bus ticket and sent home. She then apologized.

United Nations Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples -- And Stories of Hope

Lisa White Pipe, Sicangu Lakota, testifies before the U.N. Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo courtesy Coalition Large Tribes.

United Nations Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples -- And Stories of Hope

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 18, 2023

GENEVA -- The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world today, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and a story of hope from Alaska about a young French boy who helped save the Eyak language.

"There is no greater offender of tribal rights than the U.S. Justice Department," said Lisa White Pipe, Lakota, Sicangu Rosebud council member, representing the Coalition of Large Tribes, chaired by the Blackfeet Nation.

White Pipe's testimony was before the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the U.N. Human Rights Council, during the second day of the five-day session.

Mount Graham Sacred Run July 20 -- 23, 2023

 

Everyone Welcome to the 32nd Annual Mount Graham Sacred Run July 20-23, 2023
July 20, Thursday, 5 p.m. Holy Ground Blessing and dinner at Old San Carlos Momument. The run will follow after the blessing, ending at Noline's Country Store.
July 21, Friday - Run begins at Nolines Country Store and end at Treasure Park West on Mount Graham.
July 22, Saturday: At sunrise, we will hike to retrieve the holy water and Blessing Ceremony.
July 23, Sunday: 9 a.m. Holy Ground Blessing and Departure.
Food will be provided. Please bring all camping gear, Warm clothes, chairs, and sanitation supplies. Prepare for rain.
Contact: Wendsler Nose 928-200-7762
Vanessa Nosie 928-215-1476

Native Leaders Urge Designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument

Carletta Tilousi, Dianna Uqualla, and Stuart Chavez. Photo by Raymond Chee

Native Leaders Urge Protection of Grand Canyon with the Designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument

Courtesy Anna Peterson

Conservation Communications

Censored News

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona -- Speaking out for their sacred homelands and precious water, Native leaders urged the protection of the Grand Canyon, and the designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument, during a public listening session with the Department of Interior and U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday.

Havasupai Vice Chairman Edmund Tilousi said, “Red Butte, our sacred mountain, needs to be protected and preserved for future generations to come.”

“The threat of contaminating our water is real and current.”

Supporting the need to protect the water, Hualapai Vice Chair Scott Crozier said, “This land, this water means a lot to us.”

Hopi Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma said it is Hopi's place of emergence.

“For Hopi and many tribal nations, there’s an intimate connection that we have with this. For Hopi, it’s our place of emergence, a place where we still hold pilgrimages and offerings. It’s what we consider the heartbeat. Much like a human being, the waterways are arteries and veins carrying that lifeblood, not only to Arizona, but the entire world. It keeps life going. And if we poison that blood, life dies.”

Congressmen Pushing Destructive Mining at Apaches Oak Flat

Apache Stronghold caravan to federal court in March. Photo courtesy Apache Stronghold

Politicians head to Arizona to tout destructive mining projects

House Republicans come to Arizona to promote mining that will violate religious freedom and destroy the environment

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, July 19, 2023

SAN CARLOS, Arizona – A group of House Republicans will be in Arizona this week promoting destructive mining projects over the wellbeing of Arizonans, the environment, and sacred native land.

Representative Paul Gossar and four other Republicans are set to advocate for a series of projects—including Resolution Copper’s proposed mine at Oak Flat—and push for copper to be placed on the list of critical minerals in the U.S. This is the latest in a string of efforts by Republican leadership in Washington D.C. to put corporate mining interests over the good of everyday Arizonans.

“House Republicans and their lobbyists are coming here to destroy Arizona, not save it,” said Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold. “They will try to convince people that these mines will be good for our region and the rest of the county. In reality, they will ruin the Earth by polluting the land, waters, and natural habitats.”

Navajos on Black Mesa Oppose New Development Targeting Aquifers

 18 Navajo Chapters Oppose Huge Pumped Storage Projects Threatening Arizona’s Black Mesa

Coalition Statement, Censored News, July 19, 2023

BLACK MESA, Arizona — Tó Nizhóní Ání, Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment and the Center for Biological Diversity submitted resolutions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today from Navajo chapters and agencies opposing three pumped storage projects on the Navajo Nation’s Black Mesa, southeast of Kayenta. A total of 18 chapters and agencies have passed resolutions opposing the projects.

“People who live here don’t want these projects, and we don’t want more damage from industrial energy development to the land and aquifers that we depend on,” said Adrian Herder of Tó Nizhóní Ání. “Asking for federal approvals before the consent of Black Mesa’s communities is the height of arrogance. It tells us the developer is not interested in engaging the communities that would be impacted by this project.”

Winnipeg: Canada's Systematic Genocide at the Brady Landfill: Police Expected at Barricade

Winnipeg police removed the Brady landfill road barricade today, Tuesday, after delivering an injunction on Friday. A second camp is being set up at the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.

Live on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/100088727987413/videos/991870601815137/

Update: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Police took down the road barricade at Brady landfill today. So far, Camp Morgan, Longhouse and Sacred Fire are safe. "They want to continue dumping on our children and women who are in that landfill. How would they feel if it was their women and children in that landfill," said Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa. "CampMorgan is still Stronger than ever. Police only took the barricade down, but they didn't take the camp. In response, a new MMIW camp is being established at the Human Rights Museum down at the Winnipeg Forks. It's in support to have Both Landfill dumps Searched."

Update Tuesday afternoon: "Barricades were removed, but that doesn't mean it's over. New encampment called 'Camp Mercedes Myran,' who is another woman is believed to be in the same landfill dump with Morgan Harris. This camp will also be established at the Human Rights Museum," Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa said. In a live video stream, he said the families of victims asked the Warriors to be present.

 Friday https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=104070

The City of Winnipeg served the injunction. Police can arrest those at the barricade at 6 pm. Native protectors are demanding a search of landfills for murdered Indigenous women.

Update Saturday: Native Protectors Remain at Barricade after Injunction Served

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/come-help-us-find-them-blockade-remains-at-brady-road-landfill-despite-injunction-1.6481483

Sgt. Brian Chrupalo, Metis, Winnipeg Police Service police liaison arrives shortly after 6 pm. Warriors say they are here to defend the women. The police liaison told Native defenders that the injunction had been delivered at 6 pm on Friday and all those present, listed as "John Does" on the injunction faced arrest, not just those listed by name on the injunction. Native defenders stood firm, with more arriving in the evening to enforce the road barricade to Brady landfill. They refused to leave until The City of Winnipeg searched the landfills for murdered Indigenous women. Family members of murdered Native women were among those standing firm at the road barricade.

Bear Clan Patrol makes it clear that this is a police officer, shown above, and is not representing Bear Clan.

Live coverage by CTV News. Screenshots live by Censored News. July 14, 2023

Saturday morning update: Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa said, "If something happens to the camp, from police aggression. All railways, highways, and bridges will be blocked."

Pope Francis: It was a genocide against indigenous peoples

Pope Francis confirmed that the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide against Indigenous Peoples. The government of Canada is equally responsible, it mandated that Native children be seized by the churches, kidnapped from their families, and institutionalized in schools, resulting in an era of abuse, torture, and murder of Native children. Today, the remains of Indigenous women have been found in a landfill in Winnipeg. The City refuses to search a second landfill for other murdered Indigenous women who are believed to be there. On Friday, the City of Winnipeg delivered an injunction for Native protectors to remove a road barricade to Brady landfill. Police are expected to enforce the injunction, continuing this white supremacy and systematic genocide. -- Censored News.

Vatican News: Pope confirms the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-07/pope-francis-apostolic-journey-inflight-press-conference-canada.html

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Mohawk Mothers: In Defense of the Children -- Unmarked Graves at CIA torture site in Montreal

Mohawk Mothers represented themselves in court using The Great Law to ensure the search of McGill University hospital grounds for the unmarked graves of Native children. The CIA used the hospital for MK Ultra torture and mind control experiments in Montreal, Canada. A survivor of her incarceration at the hospital remembers seeing hospital staff digging graves on the grounds at night, and remembers Indigenous children as fellow victims. -- Censored News.

Mohawk Nation News ongoing coverage:

https://www.mohawknationnews.com/

Canada's Unmarked Graves of Native Children -- 15 Years Ago, Russell Means Exposed 28 Sites

Fifteen years ago, Russell Means, Lakota, released information on 28 sites of unmarked graves at residential schools in Canada. Today, the search is ongoing, as thousands of possible graves have been located using ground-penetrating radar. Widely censored, Russell Means' documentation was published by Mohawk Nation News and Censored News in 2008.

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Yaqui Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the Gas Pipeline in Sonora

Indigenous Yaqui leader Fidencio Aldama is free after 7 years in prison and 
has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the company IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company Sempra Energy. -- Voices in Movement

INDIGENOUS YAQUI LAND DEFENDER

Fidencio Aldama Perez is an Indigenous Yaqui land defender and political prisoner from the northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community of Loma de Bácum, Sonora.

Read more: https://fidencioaldama.org/en/news/

La Jornada San Luis reports

Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondent

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Canada's Non-Response to Wet'suwet'en Testimony to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Chief Na'Mooks, center, testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Photo Jason Franson/Canadian Press

Canada fails to respond to Wet’suwet’en Nation’s claims in hearing at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

“Canada’s unwillingness to explain its actions shows an embarrassing disrespect for our Nation’s rights and the rights of all Indigenous Peoples in so-called Canada,” said Chief Na’moks, of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs.

By Amnesty International

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The Government of Canada’s remarks to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in response to allegations of serious human rights abuses show an “embarrassing disrespect” towards the rights and experiences of Indigenous Peoples, the Wet’suwet’en Nation and Amnesty International Canada said this week.

On Monday, representatives with the Wet’suwet’en Nation testified virtually to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) about the unjust criminalization of land defenders opposing the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) liquified natural gas pipeline on the Nation’s unceded ancestral territory. They also decried Canada’s and British Columbia’s decision to construct the pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Nation — a violation of the Nation’s rights under Wet’suwet’en law, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.