Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 4, 2025

Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest: Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham




The Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest is underway. Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas





Ute are battling Energy Fuels uranium dump, poisoning their community.
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas, Censored News


Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, and Dianna Uqualla, Havasupai, at today's walk.
Energy Fuels operates the Pinyon Plain mine in the Grand Canyon, the homeland of Havasupai. The  radioactive dust is poisoning the medicine plants and threatening the aquifer. Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas

The Energy Fuels uranium mill in the White Mesa Ute community in southeastern Utah is poisoning the air, land and water. There is no safe way to store radioactive waste. Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas


The march to Energy Fuels uranium mill and dump site is underway in the White Mesa Ute community, battling the legacy of cancer and death, and the United States and its corporations slow and toxic genocide.
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas

With flags flying, Native people say 'No' to uranium mining, radioactive haul trucks,
and deadly dumping on White Mesa Ute lands.
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas.


Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, has spent her life battling the human rights abuses on her homeland, the Tohono O'odham Nation. Please support her work on her website.
https://www.oodhamrights.org/



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