Spotlight on Indigenous Youths at UN Permanent Forum: Katisha Paul

Katisha Paul speaking UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today. Screenshot by Censored News.

Spotlight on Indigenous Youths at UN Permanent Forum: Katisha Paul

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 20. 2024

NEW YORK -- "Our land is our future. Our Indigenous languages are derived from the land," Katisha Paul, Stʼatʼimc Nation, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today.

With eloquence and power, Katisha urged more opportunities for Indigenous youths at the United Nations, a greater voice in the solutions to climate change, and an international convention on Indigenous languages.

"We are coming for everything that our ancestors were denied."

"Long live Indigenous Peoples!"

Omaha Nathan Phillips: Prayer, Lithium, and an Ancient Language Lost, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Nathan Phillips, Omaha, speaking at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today. Screenshot by Censored News.

Omaha Nathan Phillips: Prayer, Lithium, and an Ancient Language Lost, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 19, 2024

NEW YORK -- Nathan Phillips, Deer Clan, Omaha, spoke of prayer, traditions and lithium mining at the United Nations today, and his words brought a welcome calm, in contrast to the fast-paced rhetoric of governments and agencies.

"I came to pray for the people and bring knowledge of what's happening on our reservations, of the lithium, the copper mining and the extraction industries, these things that are destroying our people."