Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 30, 2025

'The Serpents are Trying to Return, says Kahentinetha Speaking on the Mohawk Peacemaker's Way

'The Serpents are Trying to Return, says Kahentinetha Speaking on the Mohawk Peacemaker's Way


by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 30, 2025

MONTREAL -- 'The serpents are trying to return," said Kahnetinetha, Mohawk. The search continues for their children who were murdered in residential schools and victims of the torture experiments at McGill University's hospital.

While the slick-talking politicians are among the serpents, the Peacemaker's Way of the Great Peace shows the way to Peace.

Speaking to law students at McGill University about the failing governments in the west, the collapsing economies and increased militarization, Kahentinetha points out, "The masks are coming off."

Speaking about artificial intelligence, she said, "They want to replace us with sub-humans."

There is healing through ceremonies, she said, and speaks on the effects of fear.

"We are the oldest living democracy on the planet."

"We ask for you to stand with us," she said, of the protection and caring for Mother Earth.

"We have been victims of genocide, but we are still here."

The Mohawk Mothers and supporters on the panel describe the search for graves of Native children who were victims of the U.S. CIA's MK-Ultra torture and drug experiments at McGill University's hospital.

Watch the video of the panel presentation, one hour and 50 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKtXrzAElNQ&feature=youtu.be 

November 28, 2025

Leonard Peltier on the National Day of Mourning, 'They Want to be the Super Race and Control the World'


Leonard Peltier on the Day of Mourning 2025, at home on Turtle Mountain in North Dakota. Screenshot by Censored News

Leonard Peltier on the National Day of Mourning,  'They Want to be the Super Race and Control the World'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 27, 2025

TURTLE MOUNTAIN CHIPPEWA NATION -- Speaking on the National Day of Mourning known as "Thanksgiving," freed political prisoner Leonard Peltier said Native people want the massacres of their people to be known.

Peltier said it is already happening again, as can be seen in the deaths of children in Palestine and the Ukraine and what they are trying to do in Iran.

"They're killing thousands and thousands of babies and young children and destroying homes.  And this is the same thing they did to us. This is why we got a day of mourning," Peltier said from his home on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation.

"We've got to fight to expose these atrocities, it is not over. It's not over for us or it's not over for the rest of the world -- because once they get done with Iran and Palestine and Ukraine, they're going to move to another area."

"They want to be the super race. They want to control the whole world. And we can't let them do that. We won't let them do that," Peltier said in a video address to the National Day of Mourning.

In a separate written statement to the Day of Mourning, Peltier said, "Every day has been a Day of Mourning for a few centuries now."

"Every day has also been a victory. Every one of us is a battle that has been won."

"Our ancestors have survived the slaughter of those who sought to end us. The Trail of Tears. The Wounded Knee Massacre. The endless brutal attacks. The corrupt Washington policy meant to erase us." 

November 26, 2025

'Thanksgiving: Discourse Concerning Western Planting' by American Indian Genocide Museum


Photo: National Day of Mourning in Plymouth 2025
https://www.tag24.com/justice/activism/indigenous-peoples-expose-thanksgiving-mythology-on-national-day-of-mourning-3443341



Thanksgiving – Discourse Concerning Western Planting

By Steve Melendez, Paiute, American Indian Genocide Museum
Censored News, Nov. 27, 2025

The English divide and conquer plan for America was written in 1578, twenty nine years before the founding of Jamestown in 1607. This was also long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620 and survived the winter with the help of Chief Massasoit and the Wampanoag Indians. Chief Massasoit had a son named, Metacom whose death best illustrates the guile behind the first Thanksgiving and the one celebrated 55 years later on Thursday, August 17, 1676. This is the one where Metacom’s head was brought to the Plymouth Colony entrance and displayed on a pole for over twenty years.

An Evening with Leonard Peltier and Angela Daivs -- Photos by Karen Rudolph and CURYJ

Photo copyright Karen Rudolph

An Evening with Leonard Peltier and Angela Davis

'Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Fascism' in Oakland, California

Photos by Karen Rudolph, Censored News, Nov. 25, 2025

"What a night. Thank you CURYJ and George Galvis for making this happen. Jimi Simmons, John Trudell, Raul Salinas, Steve Robideau, Nilak Butler, Lenny Weinglass -- would be so happy to see Leonard out of prison. Finally." -- Karen Rudolph

November 25, 2025

Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

 

Lakota Youths showed 'Spaces of Exception,' a film revealing the truths of the lands of Native people and Palestinians, Native lands, here in the Lakota community on the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, where the film series originated. Photo by Mato White Plume.


Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

In the Lakota community where the film series began, the film reveals the shared truths in the lands of Native People and Palestinians.

By Mato White Plume and Natalie Hand
Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Censored News, Nov. 23, 2025

Mato White Plume said, "A lasting impression this film left was the shared themes of systemic confinement, and the resistance against it. Seeing these two histories laid side by side like that, it clicks. It makes the regimes of control and displacement undeniable. It was for sure heavy, but the kind of heavy that fuels the flame for liberation."

"The most powerful was witnessing the raw acts of resistance," said
Mato White Plume, Organizer for Moccasins On The Move.

Mohawk Nation News 'The Serpents are Trying to Return'


THE SERPENTS ARE TRYING TO RETURN
Posted on November 25, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/11/25/the-serpents-are-trying-to-return/



MNN. THE SERPENTS ARE TRYING TO RETURN. WE ARE STOPPING THEM.  Nov. 24, 2025. McGill University Law School.

We are here on the land of the Kaniekehaka Mohawks at the foot of Mount Royal in tiotiakeh Montreal. The bear clan village of tekanontak stood right here and where we are told the serpents did away with our people and hid their outrageous actions from the world. Today we are looking for our babies. We, the “Keepers of the Eastern Door”, stood on this original Mohawk village watching for invasive species and slithering serpents.

November 23, 2025

'Fish War' Listen to Ramona Bennett, Puyallup


Ramona Bennett signs a copy of her new book on Friday, inspiring youths. Photo courtesy Puyallup Tribe.

Inspiring youths, Ramona Bennett talks with youths as she signs her new book, "Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe." Photo courtesy Puyallup Tribe
 

Puyallup Tribe Honors Ramona Bennett

(November 21, 2025) The Puyallup Tribe said former Tribal Council Chairwoman Ramona Bennett visited Tribal Administration on Friday to host a book signing event for her recently released memoir, "Fighting For The Puyallup Tribe."

Leonard Peltier and Angela Davis, 'Resistance and Fascism' Oakland, Nov. 25, 2025

Leonard Peltier and Angela Davis, 'Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Fascism' Oakland, Nov. 25, 2025

Update: Photos by Karen Rudolph

Monday: A change of agenda: The event is a private gathering, limited to 250 invited supporters.

'Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Fascism'

"The show will go on!" Tony Gonzales, AIM West, told Censored News on Sunday night.

Leonard Peltier and Angela Davis will speak in a panel discussion, "Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Fascism," at the Oakland Museum in Oakland, California on November 25, 2025. Wahpepah's Kitchen is providing dinner at 5 p.m.


November 22, 2025

Today in Las Vegas: 'The Long Fight' at the International Uranium Film Festival


Today at the International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, "The Long Fight"

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 23, 2025

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The radioactive uranium mill and dump has been poisoning the White Mesa Ute community for 40 years in southeastern Utah.

Now, the radioactive uranium haul trucks travel from the Havasupai's ancestral land in the Grand Canyon, from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine to the White Mesa mill, and endanger everyone on the haul route in Flagstaff and the Navajo and Hopi Nations. The deadly trucks are covered only with tarps.

Las Vegas 'Downwind' and More at the International Uranium Film Festival, Nov. 22, 2025


International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas.
Photos above and below, courtesy Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone Principal Man.


INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
LAS VEGAS
Downtown Cinemas
November 21, 22 & 23
Entry free! www.uraniumfilmfestival.org / PROGRAM STARTS TODAY NOVEMBER 22 AT 1:30 PM !


November 21, 2025

Hydropower Developer No-Show Leaves Navajos with More Questions than Answers




HYDROPOWER DEVELOPER NO-SHOW AT KAYENTA CHAPTER, LEAVES IMPACTED COMMUNITIES WITH MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

Chapter officials table hydropower resolution, ask for more community info sessions as FERC seeks to end a policy blocking permits on Tribal land absent Tribal support

by Herb Yazzie, Coal-Lease Area Resident, Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, Nov. 21, 2025

KAYENTA, Ariz— On a cloudy, rainy Wednesday afternoon, the Kayenta Chapter held its monthly meeting where a resolution by Nature and People First was first on the agenda. Impacted community members from the coal-lease area on Black Mesa (Dził Yíjiin) filled the chapter house to voice concern about the resolution. But before discussions could begin, Chapter officials tabled the resolution because the developers didn’t show up.

November 19, 2025

Honoring the True History of the Occupation of Alcatraz

Tipi on Alcatraz 1969. Photo courtesy Robert Free, Censored News

Honoring the True History of the Occupation of Alcatraz

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 19, 2025

Today, we are honoring the true history of the Occupation of Alcatraz. The tipi was brought here by Robert Free of Seattle, during the early days of the Occupation in 1969.

"The tipi was put up early during the Occupation of Alcatraz Island. It remained there until the U.S. government Marshals and the FBI removed everyone 19 months later," Robert told Censored News in an interview in 2019.

"It was a place most all visitors came to rest and enjoy. It had a sweat lodge, used as needed."

Remembering those times that are now a part of history, he said, "It was the only place on the island where prisoners were allowed to grow flowers and gardens, next to a cliff with seals at the bottom."

November 14, 2025

The Atomic Bomb and Resource Extraction: New Mexico Pueblos at Brazil Climate Summit Demand U.S. Reparations

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 The Atomic Bomb and Resource Extraction: New Mexico Pueblos at Brazil Climate Summit Demand U.S. Reparations

"New Mexico, the state that we come from, was the testing ground for the first atomic bomb and that reality is devastating knowing that the natural resources that come from our ancestral lands have devastated communities across the globe." -- Julia Bernal, Sandia Pueblo, Pueblo Action Alliance

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 14, 2025

BELEM, Brazil -- Julia Bernal, Sandia Pueblo, with the Pueblo Action Alliance, spoke of the devastation to her Pueblo homelands, and the debt owed to the both the global south, and Indigenous Peoples in the United States, during the U.N. climate summit COP30, now underway in Brazil.

"In New Mexico, we are experiencing devastation to our ancestral homeland because of oil and gas, and fracking, and uranium mining," Bernal said.

Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Can Stop War'

INDIGENOUS CAN STOP WAR

 

INDIGENOUS CAN STOP WAR [reprinted]

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/11/13/indigenous-can-stop-war/

 JAN. 17, 2013.  US & CANADA corporations merged on February 4, 2011.  They have the same shareholders, owners and business plans for illegal resource extraction. Canadians and Americans have not been informed. The EU Times in Europe made the announcement on January 17, 2013. In effect, this is Hitler’s 1938 “Anschluss”, the takeover of Austria by Germany.  Canada is now a substate of the US.North American Union in E.U. Times

November 10, 2025

Vic Camp Takes Flight to Spirit World



Victorio Carter Augustus Camp
April 20, 1975 ~ November 4, 2025

The sunrose for Victorio Carter Augustus Camp on April 20, 1975 in Los Angeles, CA to Carter Camp and Michelle Tyon. The sunset for Victorio to make his journey to the Spirit World on November 4, 2025 at the Avera McKennan Health Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Tatanka Inyan, Tatanka Inyan, Tatanka Inyan, Tatanka Inyan. We say his Lakota name four times to the four winds, his English name also the name of a Ponca War Chief came from exactly that and represented exactly that Strength and Love for His People. Victorio Carter Augustus Camp, our greatest leader who also knew how to be your friend, your leader, your relative, was a peoples person from the beginning. When his Ina, Michelle Richard Tyon, had him during a time when the movement was still very much active.

November 7, 2025

The Scorched Earth Campaign -- Native People Rush to Feed the People During Uncertain Times


Photo: Choctaw Nation food distribution in Oklahoma.


Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, today: Trump returned to the Supreme Court, now asking a second time to halt full SNAP benefits. Also today, Oregon and other states obtained a restraining order to keep in place the full benefits loaded on SNAP cards. news link

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, alongside a coalition of 22 attorneys general and three governors, successfully filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to ensure those who received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in November can keep them.

At the Akwesasne Mohawk Seed Hub: The Great Apple -- Food Sovereignty Photos by Jessica Shenandoah


At the Akwesasne Seed Hub: The Great Apple -- Food Sovereignty Photos by Jessica Shenandoah

Censored News, November 7, 2025

Jessica Shenandoah said, "Through my job at Thompson Island Cultural Camp, I partnered up with Ase Tsi Tewaton and Ionkwahronkha'onhátie' - We are becoming fluent to work on the elder care packages in a Kanienkeha immersed workshop. We canned apple sauce, made apple chips, canned grape jam and made apple pies. This morning we did an apple pie giveaway for elders. It was a great week Niawenkowa to everyone for helping!! Niawen to the Akwesasne Seed Hub for donating your space and to Nelson Jock for the produce!"


November 6, 2025

Gwich'in Caribou, Source of Food and Sacred Way of Life, Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

 

Photo courtesy Gwich'in Steering Committee

Gwich'in Caribou, Source of Food and Sacred Way of Life, Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

By Gwich'in Steering Committee, Censored News, Nov. 7, 2025


November 2, 2025

Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

 

'Small gifts from the cornfield' Photo copyright Kris Barney

Kris Barney 'Remembering the Great Diné Foodways'

By Kris Barney, Dine', Censored News, Oct. 29, 2025

My grandma used to make mutton and goat jerky, dry steamed corn, preserve corn for long-term storage, dry apricots and peaches, dry cantaloupe melons, dry herbs and bulbs collected in the springtime; wild parsley, greens like wáá, mariposa lily, wild onions, dry out strips of winter pumpkin/squash and used all kinds of food preservation techniques. She even collected wild grass seed from Ndn ricegrass to save later and she grounded that to make flour and small cakes.