Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 30, 2024

In His Own Words -- Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson


Mike Wilson at his water station on Tohono O'odham Nation 2006. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

In His Own Words: Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 1, 2024

Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson, in his new book, says the liberal left have failed to hold the Tohono O'odham Nation responsible for the death of migrants in the desert by depriving them of water.

Wilson's words come as millions of dollars flow into tribal governments with a long history of leasing tribal lands to mining, and who are signing away the peoples water rights. At the same time, millions of dollars are quietly pouring into non-profits in Indian country, and few, if any, are holding tribal governments responsible for irreparable harm.

In his new book, What Side Are You On? Wilson describes how Tohono O'odham Nation police smashed his life-saving water stations, and one district forbid him from leaving water for migrants. Wilson also describes how
the Presbyterian Church, where he served as a lay pastor on the Tohono O'odham Nation, forbid him from putting out life-saving water.

Wilson, in the broader picture, paints a portrait of this society, in the United States, as one that has lost its sense of humanity.

September 28, 2024

Standing Rock -- Police gang broke hip of Comanche water protector: Bismarck officer will face justice


Comanche water protector Eric Poemoceah being chased before he was pounced on and law enforcement broke his hip at Standing Rock, Feb. 22, 2017. Censored News live coverage.

Standing Rock -- Police gang broke hip of Comanche water protector, now Bismarck officer facing justice

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 28, 2024

BISMARCK, North Dakota -- When a gang of thirty law enforcement chased and pounced on Comanche water protector Eric Poemoceah  -- Eric cried out in pain and  told them they had broken his hip, but they laughed at him, and made him walk to an  ambulance.

Now, an appeals court has returned the case to the district court, as Eric seeks justice. It has been more than seven years after the Standing Rock camps were brutally cleared by law enforcement on Feb. 22, 2017.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday that Eric “plausibly alleges a Fourth Amendment excessive force claim against Bismarck Officer Benjamin Swenson" and sent that claim back to the district court for further proceedings.

The Red Nation with John Redhouse: Resource Extraction Brought Hate Crimes to Bordertown




The Red Nation with John Redhouse: Resource Extraction Brought Hate Culture to Bordertown of Farmington

The Red Nation Video, Censored News, September 28, 2024

Resource extraction and racism escalated in the bordertown of Farmington during times of boom, Dine' John Redhouse tells Melanie Yazzie, Dine', of The Red Nation.

"In Farmington they both escalated during times of boom energy, first it was oil and gas and uranium in the 50's and 60's, and in the 70's through the early 80's, it was primarily coal -- but there was a good level of oil and gas extraction and processing as well," Redhouse said.

September 26, 2024

Muscogee Candlelight Vigil for Ancestors

Candlelight Vigil photo courtesy Mvskoke Media

Muscogee Creek remembered their ancestors dug up for a casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

By Mvskoke Media, Censored News, Sept. 25, 2024

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

Ceremonial members of Hickory Ground and other Mvskoke supporters gathered at Woodruff park in Atlanta, Georgia where they held a remembrance for their ancestors Sept. 24. A total of 57 candles were lit for each Hickory Ground ancestor believed to have been dug up by the Poarch Band Creeks.

September 23, 2024

'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended' Live on Saturday


'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended'

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News



Live: Chili Yazzie thanked everyone for coming today to honor the victims and their families of Dine' tortured and murdered in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico.
Lunch is being served, as the live broadcast ends. Workshops are planned for the afternoon, and tents are set up outside as healing centers, at the Totah Theater in downtown Farmington, now, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.


The Keeswood family, the Sun Eagle Singers, is now singing an honor song, "for everyone to heal today."

Remembering and honoring Dodge Benally, 34, John Earl Harvey, 39, and David Ignacio, 52, tortured and murdered by white teenagers in the Chokecherry Massacres in 1974.

Mohawk Nation News -- Indian Affairs Deep 'Record Keeping' System


New today! Read the full article at Mohawk Nation News
https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/09/23/indian-affairs-deep-record-keeping-system/

 

September 22, 2024

The Killing Fields in the Bordertown -- John Redhouse 'Hate Crimes Didn't Begin, or End, in Farmington in 1974'


John Redhouse, Dine', speaking at "Remembering 1974" in Farmington on Saturday.


The Killing Fields in the Bordertown

Hate Crimes Didn't Begin, or End, in Farmington in 1974

"It was a time of greatness. The long hot summer of 1974." John Redhouse

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 22, 2024

FARMINGTON, New Mexico -- John Redhouse, Dine', shared the history of the resistance to the torture and murder of Navajos in 1974, and made it clear that the racism, hate crimes and murders of Dine' in Farmington did not begin, or end, in 1974.

John joined Dine' to honor the victims and their families, and the resistance, during the "Remembering 1974: Paths to Healing," at the Totah Theater in downtown  Farmington on Saturday. 

Mohawk Nation News 'D.C. Scott's Final Solution -- October 25, 2024?'


 New today at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/09/22/d-c-scotts-final-solution-october-25-2024/

September 20, 2024

'We Will be Jaguars' Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani, Protecting Amazon Rainforest


We Will be Jaguars

Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani, Protecting the Amazon Rainforest 

By Water for Life, Censored News, Sept. 21, 2024

Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, “We Will Be Jaguars.” The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!

September 19, 2024

White Mesa Ute Community Spiritual Walk and Protest, Oct. 12, 2024



The Ute Mountain Ute community invites everyone to come out and a join in this spiritual walk!! Come out and support the community of White Mesa Saturday, October 12, 2024!!

Rally starts at 11AM MDT, followed by the spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

Protect Ha'Kamwe: Water is Life


Protect Ha'Kamwe

We are here at Camp Ha'kamwe standing for Ancestral Lands and Sacred Water. Come out support the cause for a day or camp out, if not share a nice kind thought or a prayer.

18570 Cholla Canyon Ranch Road Wikieup Arizona

No Lithium Mining in Wikieup Arizona

Water Is Sacred Water Is Life

'Images of Impossible Bridges: Yo A Radish' -- Zapatista Women's Sweet Memory of France


A sweet remembrance from the Zapatista women in France, on the Journey for Life.



Images of Impossible Bridges: Yo A Radish…

(Or an onion, depending on the case, or thing, depending)

By El Capitan, Marcos
August 2024

Espanol, German, Italian

No, I don't mean that I don't give a damn about what they say against me for defending their precious precious. Nor that, as "progressives", they are red on the outside and white on the inside. I'm talking about a radish. Of the vegetable, then, that they call "radish".

This little story begins in the Journey for Life, Europe chapter. Before they left, I asked some of my classmates to send me photos of what they saw and what caught their attention in the places they would be assigned to.

September 18, 2024

El Capitan, Marcos 'Images of Impossible Bridges: III A Letter'

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El Capitan, Marcos, in this new series of articles, writes of the struggle and journeys. "Along the way we learned that the voice that teaches is Uma Kiwe, our Mother Earth; She indicates the path and the strategies," but then in 2016 all these others began to arrive, with isms, environmentalism, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, Maoism, institutionalism, developmentalism -- all bearing the seal of Western rationality. 
"None contributed anything worthwhile. And of course, there were and will be people who only came to get what they could. And they left when they could get no more. They were not 'isms,' they were, and are, just scoundrels." 



Images of Impossible Bridges: III A Letter

By El Capitan, Marcos
August 2024
Espanol, German, Italian

Actually, the letter is very short. It arrived from Cauca, in the geography called Colombia, with a request from the brother Nasa indigenous people. I think it was at the end of 2022. Wait… yes, it arrived on October 31, 2022. The Nasa brothers asked that an article be spread on the Enlace Zapatista page, that is, that it be published there.

I read the text carefully, compared the data and thought: “if it is published on the page, no one will pay attention to it. And I think that what they want is not to have many “views”, but rather that what is said there is read and understood here, in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Then we are going to do something better than publish it on the Enlace Zapatista page: I am going to pass it on to the Zapatista political-organizational leadership. Let them be the ones who value it for what it is: an impossible bridge.” Why “impossible”? Now you will see:

El Capitan, Marcos 'A Marathon in the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast'




A MARATHON IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MEXICAN SOUTHEAST


By El Capitan, Marcos
September 2024
German and espanol

Weeks ago, groups of Zapatista youths had meetings to see how they could promote the issue of commonality among themselves and with youths from political parties.

Then they had the idea of ​​a marathon (23 kilometers) on dirt roads with steep slopes (that is, «hills» – as we call them here).

Their plan was that there would be no personal benefit prizes among those who won. Instead, the objective was for the award to be a productive base to start first with the groups in their towns. From there, the next step is to create common projects, where youths from political parties are involved.

Hopi Federal Judge First to Halt Desecration from Lithium Drilling



Federal Judge Diane Humetewa, Hopi, is First to Halt Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's Lithium Drilling Permits in Native Ceremonial Places

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 18, 2024

Federal Judge Diane Humetewa, Hopi, is the first federal judge to halt the lithium permits being given out by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland. Humetewa granted a temporary restraining order halting an Australian company's lithium drilling at Hualapai's Sacred Spring.

Now, U.S. District Judge Humetewa will rule on whether to make it permanent. Humetewa is the first to ask attorneys to submit arguments concerning the federal laws that protect historic and archaeological sites and the environment.

Judge Humetewa gave lawyers on both sides until next Tuesday to summarize their arguments and more specifically respond to questions she asked about the government’s compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Standing Rock Case: Judge won't recuse himself over stance on Gaza and Columbia University Attorneys



Standing Rock water protectors at a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. Photo Rob Wilson Photography

Standing Rock Case: Judge won't recuse himself over stance on Gaza and Columbia University Attorneys

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 18, 2024

BISMARCK, North Dakota -- A federal judge in North Dakota blasted criticisms at the pro-Palestine support at Columbia University, calling it an "incubator of bigotry." Now, attorneys at Columbia representing Standing Rock water protectors say the judge should recuse himself from a federal case, because he is unable to be fair. 

Federal Judge Daniel Traynor refused to do it.

September 17, 2024

Protect Ha'Kamwe' Stop Big Sandy Lithium Mine Phoenix Courthouse Sept. 17, 2024


Zoe Perry, left, and Loveena Watahomiegie, right, as they join other members of the Hualapai Tribe while marching in front of U.S. District Court as they gathered to try to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near tribal lands Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

US judge unlikely to rule until next week as Arizona tribe fights to extend ban on lithium drilling

PHOENIX (AP) — "Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge Tuesday to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries.

"The judge indicated she wouldn’t decide for more than a week whether to grant the tribe’s request or lift a temporary restraining order she issued last month."


September 16, 2024

Journey for Justice for Hickory Ground, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 25, 2024


By Justice for Hickory Ground

It’s been over two decades since our ancestors were dug up from Hickory Ground, and their remains are still kept in plastic bins and boxes on shelves.
On Tuesday, September 25, we are asking the Court to simply allow our claims to be heard in a court of law. We continue to fight for justice for the desecration of our sacred and ceremonial ground.


Defending the Ancestors, Censored News


Photo by Movement Rights

Defending the Ancestors

Phillip Deere Round House, Convening of Four Winds, Mvskoke, Oklahoma, Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/defending-ancestors-voices-from-phillip.html

September 14, 2024

Defending the Ancestors, Voices from Phillip Deere Round House

Movement Rights said, "We opened with the history of the Phillip Deere Round House from Bonnie Deere (Mvskoke). We are grateful to share this space for the Convening of the Four Winds and learn of what this space was created for and continues to be a place for the Mvskoke community. We gather here to be in ceremony, build strategy to protect indigenous lands, and defend the Rights of Nature."
Photo courtesy Movement Rights


Defending the Ancestors, Voices from Phillip Deere Round House


Update: March for Justice to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, at dawn, as oral arguments begin on Sept. 25, 2024

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 7, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- The ancestors who were left behind, fleeing for safety, were  buried in Alabama, when the Mvskoke were forced on the cruel Trail of Tears. Today, speaking at the Phillip Deere Round House in Oklahoma, Muscogee Creek described how it is all about the money these days for those who dug up the ancestors and handled them in a disrespectful way to build a casino.

Mvskoke Samuel 'Bonnie' Deere, son of Phillip Deere, spoke on the creation of the Phillip Deere Round House, and the devastation of 57 Mvskoke ancestors who were  dug up in Alabama for a casino.

Apache Stronghold Asks Supreme Court to Save Oak Flat


Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, at Supreme Court.

Apache Stronghold Asks Supreme Court to Save Oak Flat

By Becket Law, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

WASHINGTON – A coalition of Western Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies asked the Supreme Court today to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat from destruction by a multinational mining giant. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever (Watch this short video to learn more). The Apaches and their allies hosted a day of prayer outside the Court as they asked the Justices to save the spiritual lifeblood of their people.

Thousands Sign Support for Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society in Pipeline SLAPP


Standing Rock, Sept. 3, 2016. Defense of Standing Rock burial places from the construction of Dakota Access Pipeline, as pipeline brought in dogs to attack water protectors. Video screen capture by Censored News.


Thousands Sign Support for Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society in Pipeline SLAPP

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 13, 2024

Energy Transfer plans to bankrupt Greenpeace USA with its $300 million lawsuit, and rewrite history by diminishing the role of Native people leading the movement to protect the water at Standing Rock from Dakota Access Pipeline. More than 290 organizations, and tens of thousands of individuals, have signed a letter supporting Greenpeace.

The SLAPP lawsuit names Greenpeace, Red Warrior Society and individual water protectors. Water protectors are also being served with third party subpoenas, in a fishing expedition for information. The lawsuit is slated for North Dakota State Court in Morton County in February of 2025 -- eight years after militarized police tore down and ransacked the water protector camps.

Turkey Will Seek Arrest Warrants for Murder of Aysenur Eygi, Standing Rock Water Protector


Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, second from left, holds the sign, "I Stand With Standing Rock," at the Oceti Sakowin Camp, in the defense of water from the Dakota Access Pipeline. 

Turkey Will Seek Arrest Warrants in  Murder of Aysenur Eygi, Standing Rock Water Protector

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 13, 2024
Updated Sept. 14, 2024


"Turkey’s president, Mr. Erdogan, said on Monday that his country would seek to add her killing to a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. After Ms. Eygi’s body arrived in Turkey on Friday, Turkey performed an autopsy before transporting it to Didim," reports New York Times, from Aysenur Eygi's funeral in Turkey.

Friends and relatives recalled her as passionate about standing up for people she considered to be victims of injustice.

September 13, 2024

Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024

Tó Nizhóní Ání, Sacred Water Speaks, traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024. 

 

Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024


Black Mesa youth travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week to share the need to protect our water in the face of false solutions and climate change.

 

by Adrian Herder, Media/Community Organizer, Censored News

adrian@tonizhoniani.org


FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024, an international leading conference on global water issues organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute.

Earlier this year, Tó Nizhóní Ání was invited to attend World Water Week 2024 and asked to be on a panel on Green Colonialism. The Sámi national youth organization, Sáminuorra, organized this panel. Given this panel's Indigenous youth focus, Tó Nizhóní Ání took this opportunity to fund raise and send a delegation of Diné (Navajo) youth from the Black Mesa region to represent and speak on this topic.

September 11, 2024

Standing Rock Water Protector Shot in the Head by Israel in the West Bank


"I Stand with Standing Rock," Aysenur Eygi at Standing Rock in defense of the water from Dakota Access Pipeline at the age of 18. Aysenur was assassinated by an Israeli soldier after peace observers held a prayer gathering in the West Bank. As she fled from tear gas for safety, she was standing beneath an olive tree when she was executed.  Photo credit

"Happening Now: Hundreds of people are gathered along Alki Beach right now, calling for justice for Aysenur Eygi, the University of Washington alum killed in the West Bank last week by the Israel Defense Force. She was 26 and described as a lifelong activist." -- Ryan Simms, KOMO News reports on Wednesday evening at sunset.
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Seattle honors Standing Rock Water Protector shot in the head by Israel in the West Bank

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 11, 2024

SEATTLE -- Standing Rock Water Protector Aysenur Eygi was honored tonight on the banks of Alki Beach in Seattle. Aysenur, 26, was a life long activist, an American with dual citizenship in Turkey, and a recent graduate of the University of Washington.

Aysenur was among those who came to Standing Rock to defend the water from Dakota Access Pipeline. Aysenur was 18 years old when she came to Standing Rock.

"It was an intentional killing which can not be justified," said Jonathan Pollak, who tried to resuscitate Aysenur as she bled to death.

"It was quiet, there was nothing to justify the shot, the shot was taken to kill," Pollak said.

Apache Stronghold at U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Oak Flat

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Now at U.S. Supreme Court. Photo courtesy Gary McKinney, Shoshone Paiute



Speaking now at the rally outside the Supreme Court, Gary McKinney, Shoshone Paiute, said, "Within your communities, activate your communities, your peers, your relatives, bring them to the circle, normalize this," McKinney said, urging action by local governments. "Put them to work, please."

"Take these necessary steps to ensure that our Seven Generations have a chance at clean air and clean water, and to learn our culture and traditions and to keep those alive and well." Standing with a banner of "Life Over Lithium," and standing with the struggle against the lithium mining now ongoing at the Paiute Massacre Site, Peehee Mu'huh, in northern Nevada, McKinney urged staying in prayer today and throughout our lives. "We are with you in solidarity, there are many more like us all around the world, no matter what religion, religious denomination, you belong to, this is our thought for Mother Earth, and those things that help us, those medicines, the sage, the cedar, the water, the land." -- Censored News

Apache Stronghold plans to file case to protect Oak Flat from a devastating copper mine, today, at the U.S. Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The Apache Stronghold has arrived in Washington, DC after two months following in the footsteps of the Spirit from the West on this Journey of Prayer to deliver their appeal to the Supreme Court to protect their religion, their sacred land, but also to protect all of humanity’s spirituality and the earth that is Mother to us all whether we recognize it or not. Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. once told me that to really know how to fight for justice you must go to the places that are suffering to listen and learn. Mother Earth is crying everywhere, not just at Oak Flat, if you have ears to listen and eyes to see. And these cries of Mother Earth are at the same connected to the cries of the oppressed.

Seminole Evan Haney: Fighting the Right War, Bringing the Resistance Home

United Nations Delegation: Bill Wahpepah, Clyde Bellecourt, Russell Means, Greg Zephier, Joe Lafferty, Evan Haney, Juan Aguilar, in Geneva Switzerland, 1977. (Photo courtesy Evan Haney, shared with permission, Censored News.)

Seminole Evan Haney: Fighting the Right War and Bringing the Resistance Home

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 11, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- When Evan Haney, Seminole, was in the military in Vietnam, he suffered a trauma. He found a culture like his own, and found he was fighting the wrong war, Evan said during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering on Sunday.

Evan spent the rest of his life fighting the United States government.

September 10, 2024

Apache Stronghold Filing Case at Supreme Court, Wed., Sept. 11, 2024


Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold photo by Steve Pavey


Apache Stronghold Filing Case at Supreme Court, Wed., Sept. 11, 2024


Apache Stronghold, Censored News, Sept. 11
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Contact: apache.stronghold@gmail.com

Apache Stronghold Journey of Prayer to the Supreme Court to Stop the Shattering of Human Existence & to Protect Mother Earth

On July 11th, 2024, the Apache Stronghold started the journey of prayer to the Supreme Court to stop the shattering of human existence and to protect Mother Earth. We have traveled, held ceremonies, and gathered prayers from Tribes, Communities, Churches, and people in support of saving Oak Flat and religious freedom for the protection of all.

We began in the Northwest, West Coast, South, mid-west to the East. The Apache Stronghold has now made it to Washington DC where the people of this country from all backgrounds and religions will gather at the Supreme Court on September 11 for the case filing.

September 9, 2024

Bringing the Ancestors Home


Les Williston at Choctaw cultural gathering. Photo courtesy Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Bringing the Ancestors Home 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma --Les Williston, Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"Your ancestors are always around," Williston said, speaking of the sacred places along the rivers.

September 8, 2024

Convening of Four Winds at Phillip Deere Round House in Oklahoma, Day 2


Future leaders at Convening of Four Winds today at Phillip Deere Round House. Photo Movement Rights



Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, speaking today, Sunday.

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said this is a continuation of the Warrior Way, and she spoke of the joy of being with her family here, and remembering the AIM warriors, her family at Wounded Knee. "And yet my babies in Palestine are being murdered. I see the war in Ukraine. I see the United States government still inflicting genocide on my people, and trying to kill the river herself."
"At this time, we are one."


Convening of Four Winds at Phillip Deere Round House in Okemah, Oklahoma, Today, Sunday

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 8, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca, is speaking on adaptation in this time of change and trauma, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Casey is joined by her daughter Julia Horinek, and they are speaking on free, prior and informed consent as stated in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature.

September 7, 2024

Join Apache Stronghold on Prayer Journey to Supreme Court: Sept. 8 -- Sept. 11, 2024 in DC Area




Live from Phillip Deere Roundhouse in Okemah, Oklahoma: Third Convening of the Four Winds


“The Longest Walk is not over. We all have our Longest Walk. We all have our history of relocation and forced removals.” –Phillip Deere


Live from Phillip Deere Roundhouse in Okemah, Oklahoma: Third Convening of the Four Winds

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 7, 2024
Live radio broadcast by Govinda Dalton

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- The gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House began this morning with good words from Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, and traditional Traditional Mvskoke and Chahta (Choctaw) from Oklahoma and Mississippi.

Mvskoke Samuel 'Bonnie' Deere, son of Phillip Deere, spoke on the creation of the Phillip Deere Round House, and the devastation of 57 Mvskoke ancestors being dug up in Alabama for a casino.

September 5, 2024

Philadelphia: Apache Stronghold Prayer Journey to Supreme Court


TODAY! Philadelphia: Apache Stronghold Prayer Journey to Supreme Court


Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Apache, told the crowd,"As we continue our journey, heading east after hitting every stop in the West, we're bringing the spirit of the West with us. Let it be known-the spirits are coming." (Photo Apache Stronghold at Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, Berkeley, Calif., August 8, 2024, by Molly Peters)

Apache Stronghold Prayer Journey to Supreme Court: Oak Flat Mirrors National Struggle for Sacred

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, August 30, 2024

On July 11th, 2024, the Apache Stronghold started the journey of prayer to the Supreme Court to stop the shattering of human existence and to protect Mother Earth. We have traveled, held ceremonies and gathered prayers from Tribes, Communities, Churches, and people in support of saving Oak Flat and religious freedom and protections for all. We began in the Northwest, West Coast, South, Mid-west to the East to gather in Washington DC at the Supreme Court on September 11.