Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 13, 2023

The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

 
The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat
April 14, 2023
Updated April 16, 2023

The Intercept and Grist began releasing new TigerSwan spy documents in new coverage of the mercenaries hired by the Dakota Access Pipeline. They now have 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, and another 9,000 are held up in the court battle for now. The documents reveal TigerSwan spying on Water Protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, Bold Iowa, and at other locations.

Reporters  and  expose the new spy documents in their article, After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies.

The University of Minnesota Committed Genocide


Ojibwe and Dakota were Targets of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by the University of Minnesota

By Dan Kraker and Melissa Olson
Minnesota Public Radio
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A massive new report details the University of Minnesota’s long history of mistreating the state’s Native people and lays out recommendations, including “perpetual reparations,” to improve relations between the university and Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations.

Among its troubling findings, the report by the TRUTH (Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing) Project concludes:

-- The U’s founding board of regents “committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain, using the institution as a shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources.”