CENSORED NEWS: 06/23/25

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.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/dine-john-redhouses-new-book-rare.html

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

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bordertown-racism-remembering-murders.html

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

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/08/energy-transition-in-four-corners-led.html

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

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/australians-rush-to-mine-lithium-in.html

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 ...

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-red-nation-with-john-redhouse.html

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.

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."

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