Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 1, 2024

Indigenous Spiritual Walk to White Mesa Uranium Mill -- Unicorn Riot's Four Part Video Series

White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk 2024 Photo Unicorn Riot

“I will always do this spiritual walk annually until I get my goal achieved of cleaning up the mill or closing the mill down.” -- Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Ute walk organizer. 

"This is about the human race. We are all one people," says Sylvia Clahchischilli, Dine'. 
"We need the natural world to survive."


Indigenous Spiritual Walk in Utah Protests Last Conventional Uranium Mill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

White Mesa, Utah — The White Mesa Mill was built in 1979 with plans to process uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrats Rally



Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrat's Rally

While standing in solidarity with Palestine, and in opposition to genocide, Diné women were manhandled and removed from the rally on their homeland, one Diné warrior remains jailed

By The Red Nation, Censored News, Oct. 27, 2024

WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- The Vice President candidate for the democratic party, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, campaigned at the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Arizona, where snipers lined the sacred monument and three Diné citizens were escorted out. Two of them being women who were manhandled and one Diné man being tackled and arrested.

Snipers on the roof. Red Nation video, Censored News

The women were repeatedly harassed by secret service in the crowd, and one woman was violently attacked by a Harris/Walz staffer.