Deadly Coal Mining is a Photo-Op for Navajo President and the Media is Part of the Game

Deadly Coal Mining is a Photo-Op for the Navajo President, and the Media is Part of the Game.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 12, 2025

The media covered up the true history of coal mining on Black Mesa. Now, Navajo President Buu Nygren is pushing and celebrating coal mining, and was in D.C. for photo ops doing it.

Peabody Coal didn't just dig up coal on Black Mesa -- they dug up Dine' from their burial places, and Dine' were put in museums. Dine' graves were dug up for 16 years. Dine' cultural items were looted by a team from Prescott College, and millions of items were taken to Southern Illinois University.

The Navajo government granted Peabody Coal its lease and knew about the robbing of graves of Dine' at the time.

Standing Ovations and Global Awards for the New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film

 

Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival. Photo courtesy Pickett Pictures, Censored News.

Standing Ovations and Global Awards for the New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 7, 2025

The new 'Free Leonard Peltier' film received a standing ovation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a special presentation by Leonard Peltier and Dino Butler. The film, which reveals the history of the movement, and exposes details previously unknown, was featured today in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and was shown at festivals in Australia and Greece, with an upcoming screening in Warsaw, Poland.

Peltier spoke to the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival from his home on Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation in North Dakota.

Peltier said he joined the American Indian Movement in 1970 in Denver, which was created and born here in Minneapolis.

Free Screenings of New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film on Rez Tour 2025

Free Screenings of the New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film on the Rez Tour 202

April 21 | Belcourt, ND, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
April 22 | Fargo, N.D.
April 23 | Fort Yates, ND, Standing Rock
April 24 | Eagle Butte, SD, Cheyenne River
Apirl 26 | Rapid City, S.D.
April 27 and 28 | Kyle, SD, Oglala5
April 29 | Valentine, NE, Rosebud
May 1 | Sioux Falls, S.D.
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED - no tickets necessary. Each screening will feature an in-person Q&A with the film team.

The new film shares deep history of the movement. 'Standing Ovations and Global Awards for New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film.

Read more at Censored News. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/free-leonard-peltier-film-shows-in.html

Solidarity: From Big Mountain to Palestine, Albuquerque, April 23, 2025

Solidarity: From Turtle Island to Palestine, From Big Mountain to Gaza in Albuquerque. 'The People United Can Never Be Defeated.'

HUALAPAI: La Paz Trail of Tears Run 2025

 

Window Rock: Saturday: Dine' Mass Mobilization Protest in Navajo Nation Capitol

Livestream by Marley Shebala. Screenshot by Censored News

Live on Facebook: Livestream by Dine' Zuni Pueblo journalist Marley Shebala

Watch recorded videos

https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala 

Chokecherry Massacre Remembrance March in Farmington: Photos by Turkeyboy Photography

Chokecherry Massacre Remembrance March in Farmington

Photos by Turkeyboy Photography

 

"Science is Real. Black and Brown Lives Matter. No Human Being is Illegal. Love is Love. Women's Rights are Human Rights. Kindness is Everything," the poster reads, as they marched in the rain on Saturday. "Stop Arresting My Brothers and Sisters."

 

Chokecherry Massacre Remembrance March in Farmington: Photos by Turkeyboy Photography

"Chokecherry Massacre Remembrance March by Diné Bikeyah Chapter of the American Indian Movement. Saturday, April 5, 2025. Farmington, New Mexico. Three Navajo men HERMAN BENALLY of Kirtland, JOHN EARL HARVEY of Fruitland, and DAVID IGNACIO of Blanco were beaten and killed in April 1974 by three Farmington High School students."

Turkeyboy Photography

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Native American Film Series, Lincoln Nebraska, 'Crying Earth Rise Up'

Debra White Plume in 'Crying Earth Rise Up' at home on Pine Ridge before her passing to the Spirit World.

Native American Film Series features films from the far north in Alaska, to Dine' College on the Navajo Nation and Oklahoma, and begins with 'Crying Earth Rise Up' on Pine Ridge

Native American Film Series

Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center are proud to present a series of free screenings featuring short Native American films and tv programs from the VMM public broadcasting archives, spanning nearly 50 years of programming.

Unless otherwise noted, screenings in this series will take place on the second Monday of each month and are admission free and open to the public. Tickets available at the Ross box office (online ticketing not available for free screenings).

Ross Media Arts Center

313 N 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68508

https://theross.org/events/native-american-film-series/

CRYING EARTH RISE UP (2014)
MONDAY, APRIL 14 – 7:25pm

Followed by a talk with Daniel Snow & Dr. Arindam Malakar, moderated by Vision Maker Media’s Alana Stone.

“Water is our first home. Water is our first medicine. Without water, there is no life.” -Debra White Plume (Oglala Lakota), Activist | A Lakota mother studying geology seeks the source of the water contamination that may have caused her daughter’s critical health problems. Meanwhile, a Lakota grandmother fights the regional expansion of uranium mining. Crying Earth Rise Up exposes the cost of uranium mining and its impact on Great Plains drinking water. (57 minutes)

'Demon Mineral' Featured in International Uranium Film Festival 2025

'Demon Mineral' co-written by Dine' Tommy Rock, in Dine' and English, is featured at the International Uranium Film Festival 2025, which begins its global journey in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in May. The festival returns to Window Rock on Nov. 13 and 14, 2025. https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/uranium-film-festival-rio-de-janeiro-may-2025

The Clandestine Operation by the United States Government Meant Death for Dine' in the Uranium Mines

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8228

"They didn't tell us the rock was dangerous. They said they would use it to make weapons, to use against the Asians. But it came back on us."

This is the voice of a Dine' grandmother, speaking in Dine'.

Ofelia Rivas 'O'odham Resistance: Human Rights Violations at the Border' April 6, 2025

 

O'ODHAM RESISTANCE: 

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AT THE BORDER 

12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6
Holland Sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson
4831 E. 22nd St., just east of Swan Rd.

Corporate greed, violence and human rights violations by the government are a national pandemic. Here in Southern Arizona, Tohono O'odham tribal elder and activist Ophelia Rivas, a founder of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, will be in Tucson to speak about the human rights violations, Border Patrol violence and the impact of the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation at the Arizona- Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol, separating them from their families and sacred tribal ceremonial grounds on the Mexico side of the border.

Co-sponsored by the O'odham VOICE Against the WALL and the Social Justice Council of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson. Free event, but donations will be gratefully accepted to buy groceries, medicine and toys for O'odham families.