Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 28, 2025

'We have to show the images' -- Amy Goodman remembers Standing Rock

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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was charged with criminal trespass for coverage of the pipeline's attack with dogs on Standing Rock Water Protectors on Sept. 3, 2016. While flying in to turn herself in, the charge was changed to "riot." During her court appearance, a Morton County judge dismissed the charge on October 17, 2016.


Dakota Access Pipeline brought in dogs to attack Standing Rock water protectors, while the pipeline bulldozed Lakota burial grounds.


June 26, 2025

Dine' Michelle Cook: Divestment in a Time of Monsters

Speaking on divestment and the oppression of Indigenous women, Michelle Cook, Dine', said, "Now is a time of Monsters -- but it is also a time of Monster Slayers." Screenshot Censored News.

Today's presentation featured a video of an Indigenous women's delegation to Europe, confronting Credit Suisse, during resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. Screenshot Censored News.

Dine' Michelle Cook Speaks on Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 26, 2025

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', founder of Divest Invest Protect, spoke on divestment and transitioning away from fossil fuels, during the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, featuring 125 women during six days.

Indigenous women are finally being brought to the center of these places of power, Cook said.

"We're still in this moment of crisis -- right now."

Speaking on the importance of divestment, she said, "We are on the brink of collapse."

June 25, 2025

'We Are Medicine People' Women of the World Speak on Climate Justice



'We Are Medicine People' 

Women of the World Speak on Climate Justice


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 25, 2025

"We are the medicine people," said Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa, Quechua in Bolivia, speaking on the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, among 125 women from 50 countries sharing knowledge and strength for six days.

"Diversity is the strength of our people, diversity is the strength of life."

Mohawk Nation News 'The Balance Sheet'


New today at Mohawk Nation News
Read at MNN

 

State of Nevada Issues 'Cease and Desist' to Lithium Nevada on Groundwateer Pumping for Thacker Pass Mine

Dean Barlese, Paiute, defending the Massacre Site from lithium drilling in 2023. Photo courtesy Protect Thacker Pass

State of Nevada rules against Canadian company's use of groundwater for drilling for lithium at Peehee Mu'huh Paiute Massacre Site

"Cattle rancher Edward Bartell waited patiently to take pictures of Lithium Nevada pumping water from a well the mining company had recently lost the right to use," the Nevada Current reports.

The state sent the mining company a cease and desist order Friday.

"The Nevada Division of Water Resources, which manages public waters in the state, said Lithium Nevada continued using the well despite being notified in April that their water permits were n longer valid." 
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June 23, 2025

Casey Camp-Horinek 'Our Legacy Demands that We Warrior Up'


Casey Camp-Horinek 'Our Legacy Demands that We Warrior Up'

"Our legacy demands that we warrior up -- that we warrior up for peace, that we warrior up for the future." -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 23, 2025

"Indigenous rights are a climate solution," Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said, as the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice began Monday, which is featuring the voices of 125 women.

U.S. Supreme Court Revisited: A Second Chance to Protect Oak Flat

Wendsler Nosie, Sr., at U.S. Supreme Court today. Photo courtesy Apache Stronghold



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Mohawk Nation News 'The Black Serpent Slithers'



New today at Mohawk Nation News

 

The Big 'Man Camp' of the Bordertown of Farmington

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Coalition for Navajo Liberation Protest in Farmington 1974. Photo by Bob Fitch.

The Big 'Man Camp' of the Bordertown of Farmington

Whether it is bordertown racism, or genocide, the media is largely responsible, as it neglects, side-steps, and manipulates the truth, by both failing to show up to cover the news, and bending to the powers that control the media.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 23, 2025

John Redhouse's new book documents the racism in the bordertown of Farmington, N.M., and the torture murders of Navajos by white teenagers in the 1970s. The intrinsic mix of racism continued in the decades that followed, and involved judges and their families, violence by police officers, and the heavy flow of oil, gas and coal mine workers -- producing a vile mix of one of the first huge man camps in the energy industry.

It didn't end there.

Under the banner of green, the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, a tribal enterprise, bought coal mines in Wyoming and Montana without consent from the tribal government, mines which continue to operate, and recently planned to dig into Hualapai's Ceremonial Big Spring for lithium, before a federal judge halted it.

The media tiptoes around Farmington as a base for exploitation, as it did when it failed to publish the facts of former Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's announcement here.

Flying under the banner of "green," Haaland announced that the atomic bomb industry would lead the so-called "energy transition." Haaland failed to point out that Los Alamos National Labs has already poisoned the air, water and land in the heart of the Pueblos in northern New Mexico, her mother's homeland. Another fact was missing: There is no safe way to store nuclear waste.

Haaland's announcement came with the new push for more nuclear energy, and transport and dumping of nuclear waste in Indian country. The Four Corners is now a new target for dumping and abuse, as radioactive trucks now cross the Navajo Navajo, Hopi Nation and region, and nuclear dumping continues in the White Mesa Ute community in Utah.

Now the Pinyon Plain mine is digging up uranium in the Grand Canyon and it  threatens the Havasupai aquifer. Radioactive dust spews on medicine plants and the world's tourists in the Grand Canyon.

Whether it is racism in the big man camp of Farmington, or genocide, the U.S. media is largely responsible for failing to report the truth.

The Nuremberg Trials reveal the role and responsibility of the media.

During the Nuremberg Tribunal, newspaper publisher Julius Streicher was found guilty of crimes against humanity for his role in inciting hatred and violence through his publications, which the Tribunal found contributed to the horrors of the Holocaust. His sustained and hateful rhetoric was deemed to have made such atrocities possible. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on October 16, 1946. 


Read more:

John Redhouse's new book: The Red Nation is launching a tour for the book in July.

Red Media is excited to announce our newest publication, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse. The book hits the shelves on July 1, 2025. 


Remembering 1974: The Racism never ended -- Fifty years later in Farmington


Energy Transition in Four Corners to be led by atomic bomb industry, says Deb Haaland


Australians rush to mine lithium in Hualapai's Ceremonial Place, a Navajo Nation enterprise is leading the desecration


The Red Nation with John Redhouse: Resource extraction brought hate crimes  to Farmington

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. "In the 50's and 60's, Farmington grew from a town of 3,500 to 35,000, there was construction all over we had to go to school half day, trailer parks all over the place ...


Copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Today: Apache Stronghold at U.S. Supreme Court -- Filing Re-appeal to Protect Oak Flat


Today the Apache Stronghold is in front of the Supreme Court laying down prayers as they file the Re-appeal to Protect Oak Flat and Mother Earth. Let us unite in prayer. Photos courtesy Apache Stronghold.


Wendsler Nosie, Sr., at U.S. Supreme Court today.


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Today at the U.S. Supreme Court. Photo Apache Stronghold

 

"Children in DC yesterday made creative prayers of art to protect Oak Flat. Mother Earth is suffering. We are all suffering. We need re-connection to our Mother, Gods greatest gift to us to heal us. We pray that the Supreme Court will accept the Apache Stronghold petition and then step outside this system of colonization against empire to return to a path of healing to protect our Mother Earth and all people and the generations to come." -- Photo courtesy Steve Pavey


Previously at Censored News: By Apache Stronghold

WASHINGTON -- On June 23, the Apache Stronghold will be filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to reconsider its refusal to hear our appeal. As you heard, two Justices voted to hear our case, calling it "vitally important," and criticizing the Ninth Circuit's ruling against us as "highly doubtful as a matter of law." 

June 22, 2025

Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice June 23 -- 28, 2025


Women and gender-diverse leaders worldwide are organizing at the virtual WECAN Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond! Join me to hear from 125+ frontline leaders & global advocates from 50+ countries who will convene for climate action. All are welcome to this powerful 6-day virtual gathering! Register now!
June 23-28, 2025
1:00 - 6:00 PM Eastern Time (ET)
Virtual – Free & Open to All!
Don’t miss this powerful convening—RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/CJ-2025
Learn more: https://www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assembly

Watch today's session on YouTube, June 23, 2025


The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is organizing the virtual Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond. The global convening will address solutions for the protection and defense of human rights and nature at this critical time. This event is a free, public forum to take place virtually from June 23 - 28, 2025, daily from 1:00 - 6:00pm ET. 

The Global Women’s Assembly will bring together grassroots and frontline women leaders in all of their diversity, global advocates, thought leaders, and policy-makers to showcase a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks, campaigns, and movement strategies with which we can accelerate a bold and transformative path to a healthy and just world. This collective work is paramount as we face a growing polycrisis. The challenges are ever-increasing, but so are our power, hearts, and leadership when we gather together.

The virtual Assembly also serves as a convening to support collective calls to action in the lead-up to COP30 and beyond, and is designed to generate ongoing networks of action regionally and by campaign focus for the years to come. We will tie these networks into existing women's and feminist formations as our collective movement for women’s climate leadership is growing. Everyone is welcome!

WECAN established our first Global Summit in 2013, where we organized a gathering of 100 global women and gender-diverse leaders from the Global South and Global North, including former Heads of State, Indigenous leaders, scientists, grassroots and frontline leaders, renewable energy experts, and policymakers. Since the first WECAN convening, we have conducted seven global assemblies, including in France, Morocco, Brazil, the United States, and Germany.  Please be welcome to learn more about the crucial role of women at the center of climate solutions here


https://www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assembly

June 21, 2025

Mohawk Nation News 'Hat In Hand and Racist Epithets'


New today at Mohawk Nation News
 

Dine' John Redhouse's new book: A rare history of bordertown racism

 

Photo The Red Nation 2016

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 20, 2025

John Redhouse's new book documents the horrific tragedies, and racism in the bordertown of Farmington, and it gives a detailed history of the resistance movement in the 1970s.

During the march against the Gallup Ceremonial, John writes, "NIYC Executive Director Gerald Wilkinson (Cherokee) spoke for all when he said, “We were not meant to be tourist attractions for the master race.”

It is rare history, seldom written or told, as in the days following the murder of Larry Casuse in Gallup. John writes, "On the other side, there were some poorly disguised agent provocateurs—posing as instant Indian revolutionaries—who tried to recruit us to 'avenge' the death of Larry Casuse. Although it had a certain appeal, we had never seen any of them before and we didn’t trust them. It was obviously a COINTELPRO styled setup and we weren’t going to play into their hands." 

And John shares the rich history of the KIVA Club at UNM in Albuquerque. "On a nomination from Zuni Pueblo-Navajo student activist Marley Shebala, I got elected to the Kiva Club Council (also known as Kiva Klub Kouncil or KKK) and began using the Native American Studies Center and its significant resources as a base for continuing my activist work."

Alongside John were so many who have passed to the Spirit World, like the soft-spoken Larry Emerson of Shiprock.

The Red Nation is launching a tour for the book in July.

Red Media is excited to announce our newest publication, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse. The book hits the shelves on July 1, 2025.

Red Media Press and Common Notions announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest during the 1970s.

“With extraordinary detail, precision, and humor, Redhouse testifies to the will and spirit of a movement at a pivotal time when there was no ‘I can’t,’ only ‘we must.’ Bordertown Clashes offers a roadmap for contemporary Red Power activists who must confront the present tense of struggle with the fortitude and versatility of their predecessors.”
– The Red Nation

July 1-5, 2025
Book Launch and Tour with author John Redhouse:

Join Red Media with author John Redhouse in person or online

July 1, 2025 – Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Book talk and livestream at the Pyramid Lake Tribe Museum

July 3, 2025 – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Books on the Bosque bookstore

July 4, 2025 – Farmington, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Inspired Moments Event Center

July 5, 2025 – Gallup, New Mexico
Book sale and author meet & greet at the Gallup Flea Market

The Red Nation Podcast is proud to provide live-streaming for the book launch tour.

Find links to the book, livestream, and event pages on the Red Media website:
https://www.redmedia.press/events/


Pre-order, ships in July


June 19, 2025

Apache Stronghold to file a petition with U.S. Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat on June 23, 2025




Breaking: Apache Stronghold will file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday June 23rd to Protect Oak Flat

Apache Stronghold vows to continue fighting to save sacred site from destruction


By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, June 19, 2025

WASHINGTON -- On June 23, the Apache Stronghold will be filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to reconsider its refusal to hear our appeal. As you heard, two Justices voted to hear our case, calling it "vitally important," and criticizing the Ninth Circuit's ruling against us as "highly doubtful as a matter of law." 

In addition, any day now, the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which is another case about government-imposed burdens on religious exercise. We think the Supreme Court's decision in Mahmoud will add further support to our case.

Mohawk Nation News 'New World Order'


 New today at Mohawk Nation News 'New World Order'

Navajo Council Hearing on Revitalizing Coal Industry at Nenahnezad Chapter


The hearing was live at Nenahnezad Chapter this morning, June 19, 2025. Now available on YouTube


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Tó Nizhóní Ání: Coal Mining Devastated the Water and Brought Black Lung Disease -- Forest Lake Hearing on Coal

Ed Silverhatband from the community of Forest Lake shares his experience working as a coal miner and the long-term impacts it has had on his health, such as black lung, which has required two lung transplants. 

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Navajos say 'No' to new coal at Forest Lake Chapter on Black Mesa

The Monster has returned, and it is even more grotesque than the one before. Dine' remember forced relocation, the loss of water and medicine plants, and the loss of loved ones. Navajos say 'No!; to Trump and Navajo President Nygren's push for coal.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 1, 2025

FOREST LAKE, Navajo Nation -- Dine' told the Navajo Nation Council that the coal industry has cost them their aquifer water, and their health. Combined with uranium mining, they have lost their loved ones to widespread cancer and black lung disease killing their people. Dine' remembered forced relocation and the stripping of the forest by Peabody Coal, during a hearing on Friday.

The Navajo Council was told to stand up for future generations, or step aside.

June 8, 2025

Madleen Freedom Flotilla Volunteers Released from Abusive Israeli Prisons, Three Remain

Update: The three remaining members of the Madleen Freedom Flotilla Mark van Rennes, Pascal Maureiras, and Yanis Mhamdi have been released by the occupation after being abducted on international waters. -- June 16, 2025

Madleen Flotilla volunteer Thiago Avila from Brazil was released from Israeli prison. Photo X @vinicios_betiol


Madleen Freedom Flotilla Volunteers Released from Abusive Prisons in Israel,  Three Remain

Censored News, Updated June 13, 2025

Update: Rima has arrived in Paris from the Israeli prisons and Thiago arrived home today. However, three more volunteers remain in Israeli prisons, their release halted by the shutdown of airports.

Freedom Flotilla said, "Now with Israel's attack on Iran, the airports are shut down, and our three remaining 'Madleen' team members, Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes may face an extra month, illegally detained in Israeli prison.

June 7, 2025

San Carlos Apache Tribe 'Federal Court Delays Trade of Sacred Oak Flat'


Site of proposed Resolution Copper mine, Oak Flat, Ariz. Photo credit: Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity



San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Federal Court ruling delaying trade of sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution Copper


By San Carlos Apache Tribe, Censored News, June 9, 2025

San Carlos Apache Nation, Arizona —The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Friday’s federal court ruling preventing the Trump Administration from trading sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution Copper Mining no sooner than 60 days after the government releases an environmental report expected to be published later this month.

June 6, 2025

Tó Nizhóní Ání: Coal Mining Devastated the Water and Brought Black Lung Disease -- Forest Lake Hearing on Coal


Ed Silverhatband from the community of Forest Lake shares his experience working as a coal miner and the long-term impacts it has had on his health, such as black lung, which has required two lung transplants. Photo courtesy Tó Nizhóní Ání.


Tó Nizhóní Ání executive director Nicole Horseherder provides her public comment before the Speaker of the Navajo Nation during the Public Hearing on Coal. Photo courtesy Tó Nizhóní Ání.

25th Navajo Nation Council Public Hearing on Coal

By Tó Nizhóní Ání
Sacred Water Speaks

On Friday, May 30, 2025, the Office of the Speaker held a public hearing on coal at the Forest Lake Chapter House in Forest Lake (Tsiiyi’ Be’ak’id), Arizona. This open forum allowed participants to share their input and comments regarding the Federal Executive Order 14241, “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” aimed at amending federal policies to boost the coal industry.

Book Launch for John Redhouse's 'Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s'


Red Media is excited to announce our newest publication, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse. The book hits the shelves on July 1, 2025. Save the date for our book launch events! Event details and spaces to be announced.

June 2, 2025

Navajos say 'NO!' to New Coal at Forest Lake


Louise Benally of Big Mountain speaks at hearing on revitalizing coal. Screenshot Censored News

Dine' tell Navajo Council 'NO COAL!'

The Monster has returned, and it is even more grotesque than the one before. Dine' remember forced relocation, the loss of water and medicine plants, and the loss of loved ones. Navajos say 'No!; to Trump and Navajo President Nygren's push for coal.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 1, 2025

FOREST LAKE, Navajo Nation -- Dine' told the Navajo Nation Council that the coal industry has cost them their aquifer water, and their health. Combined with uranium mining, they have lost their loved ones to widespread cancer and black lung disease killing their people. Dine' remembered forced relocation and the stripping of the forest by Peabody Coal, during a hearing on Friday.

The Navajo Council was told to stand up for future generations, or step aside.

Navajo Council "Being Heard is First Step to Justice" Coal Hearing at Forest Lake







25th Navajo Nation Council holds public hearing on President Trump’s initiative to revitalize the coal industry

Article and photos by Navajo Nation Council
Censored News, June 2, 2025

FOREST LAKE CHAPTER — On Friday, the 25th Navajo Nation Council held a public hearing at the Forest Lake Chapter House to solicit community feedback on President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 14241, “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” which seeks to expand coal development by revising existing federal regulations.

“This hearing was not just a forum, it was a long-overdue recognition of the voices that have too often been ignored,” said Speaker Crystalyne Curley. “For communities still living with the consequences of extraction, being heard is the first step toward justice.”