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Protect Oak Flat! 11th Annual Sacred Oak Flat Marathon, Feb. 5, 2026

 

At Dinner With Hollywood's Elite, President Obama Failed Standing Rock Water Protectors and Cheyenne River Chairman Frazier

(Above and below) Now, nine years later, photos emerge from the roundtable that was kept secret in Beverly Hills: The protest by National Nurses United. "National Nurses protest outside Obama's Beverly Hills fundraiser yesterday. Their message: Stop #DAPL!"

The New York Times Fails Again: Standing Rock: 'We are Sitting Bull's People' -- Dakota Access Pipeline: A Snake in the Water

Photo courtesy Red Warrior Camp, Censored News

The New York Times Fails Again
Standing Rock: 'We are Sitting Bull's People'
Dakota Access Pipeline: A Snake in the Water

"We are Tatáŋka Íyotake’s Oyate — 'Sitting Bull’s People,' therefore our fight and resistance must continue for our future generations because we cannot drink oil." -- Standing Rock Nation

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 20, 2025

The New York Times is quick to publish a story on the latest ruling on the Dakota Access Pipeline, claiming it is a critical energy need -- but failed to report on the excessive force lawsuits filed against law enforcement by Marcus Mitchell and Sophia Wilansky. Both were critically injured at Standing Rock defending the water from the pipeline. Their cases were heard by the federal appeals court this week.

The New York Times is now known around the world for its failed reporting and bias which enabled the genocide in Palestine.

Federal Appeals Court Heard Case of Marcus Mitchell, Navajo, Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock

Photo by Erica Crazy Hawk, Crow Creek Lakota

Federal Appeals Court Heard Case of Marcus Mitchell, Navajo, Today Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 18, 2025

ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- A federal appeals court heard the excessive force case filed by Marcus Mitchell, Dine'/Navajo, today. Marcus was shot and blinded in his left eye, at Backwater Bridge at Standing Rock, while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline construction in 2017.

Mitchell's attorney Devi Rao argued that Mitchell was targeted with excessive force by officers and was not posing a threat. Rao said officers began firing without a warning. Mitchell was standing still and was not committing serious crimes when he was fired on.

Attorney Rao told the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that Mitchell continues to suffer after being shot by officers firing 12-gauge shotguns filled with lead-filled bean bags.

"Mr. Mitchell is blind in his left eye. His senses of hearing and smell are irreparably damaged, and he has chronic and debilitating pain on the left side of his face despite many medical procedures," said Rao, an attorney with MacArthur Justice Center.

Navajo Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock, Denied Justice: A Federal Court will Hear the Case

Diné Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock Denied Justice: A Federal Court will Hear the Case 

Tohono O'odham Ophelia Rivas: Honoring the Ha'shan in Spain: International Peace Building

 

Women Civil Rights Center, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, province of Barcelona, Spain
Ophelia and Carmen Uros, Director of Civics, Volunteering and International Cooperation of Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council. Photo courtesy Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham.

The Honorable Ha'shan International Peace Building

Courtesy Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, and Women's Civil Right Center, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain, Censored News, Dec. 16, 2025

The humble Ha'shan was honored as a part of a photograph exhibition by Ophelia Rivas, at the 2025 Build Peace Conference at the La CIBA, Women Civil Rights Center in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in the province of Barcelona, Spain.

Ophelia is from Ali Je'gk (Little Clearing) village on the Tohono O'odham reservation located in the state of Arizona, on the United States and Mexico border.

Listen: Sophia Wilansky's Case Before Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Sophia Wilansky. Nov. 21, 2016

Listen: Today Federal Appeals Court Hears the Excessive Force by Law Enforcement at Standing Rock

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 16, 202

ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case of Sophia Wilansky today in St. Paul, Minnesota. Wilansky's left arm was blown apart by an explosive fired by law enforcement at Backwater Bridge at Standing Rock on the night of Nov. 20, 2016. The MacArthur Justice Center filed the civil rights lawsuit, which names the law enforcement who fired at Wilansky, and those who gave the orders. 

Wilansky's attorney argued today whether she was fired on while obeying orders and dispersing. The argument focused on whether she was struck when she stopped to pick up a piece of plywood as a shield, or whether she was fired on before she stopped. Wilansky's attorney said law enforcement rapid-fired on her while she was running away. She was struck by a flash bang type explosive fired from a shotgun. Her attorney said law enforcement laughed at her after she was struck.

Sophia Wilansky's Case at Federal Appeals Court in St. Paul, Minnesota

Marcus Mitchell, Dine'/Navajo. Sophia Wilansky. Censored News.

Today: Sophia Wilansky's Case at Federal Appeals Court in St. Paul, Minnesota

The Back Story at Backwater Bridge: The Facts that the Pipeline and Courts Don't Want You to Know

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 10, 2025

Update: Audio and transcripts of Sophia Wilansky's case heard at federal appeals court, Dec. 16, 2025

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/12/listen-sophia-wilanskys-case-before.html

The cases of Marcus Mitchell, Dine'/Navajo, and Sophia Wilansky, both critically injured at Backwater Bridge in Standing Rock, will be heard before the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota in December.

Apache Stronghold's Wendsler Nosie Targeted: Propane Line Cut

Wendsler Nosie. Video screenshot Censored News

Apache Stronghold's Wendsler Nosie Targeted: Propane Line Cut

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 12, 2025

Watch video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/897452339276212

OAK FLAT -- Apache Stronghold's Wendsler Nosie's propane line was cut to his camper, where he usually sleeps at Oak Flat, protecting the Apache Ceremonial Place from a planned copper mine. 

"I've never bothered anybody," Wendsler said, pointing out that his efforts have been to show what mining is going to do to the environment, our land, our religion, and environmental policies. "It's ugly."

Apaches on Alcatraz Island: Carrying Prayers for Oak Flat

Apache Carry Prayers to Alcatraz Island, Protecting Sacred Oak Flat From Being Destroyed for a Copper Mine

By Fight4Our Existence

Tohono O'odham Ophelia Rivas Speaks on Israeli Spy Towers in Spain

"Our Fire is Burning," Tohono O'odham Ophelia Rivas Speaks on Israeli Spy Towers in Barcelona, Spain

Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, speaks at Build Peace in Spain. Photo Build Peace, Censored News

Building Peace Conference in Spain

By Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, Censored News, Nov. 22, 2025

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8603

SANTA COLOMA de GRAMENET, Spain -- Today I am speaking of the absence of true peace on O'odham lands, including personal peace, peace for plants and animals, peace for mountains and valleys, and peace for water and air.

The O'odham are under continuous surveillance from the U.S. government perspective of border security for protection of the american way of life.