Censored News Series: The sixth most viewed article in 2025 was our live coverage of the book launch of John Redhouse, Dine', on bordertown racism and the torture murder of Dine' by white teenagers in Farmington, New Mexico. The Red Nation Media livestreamed the book launches in Pyramid Lake, Nevada; Albuquerque, and Farmington, New Mexico.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/07/live-today-john-redhouse-launches-new.html
The seventh most viewed article: 'The Plane Crash that Killed Fred Johnson and Don Noble'
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-plane-crash-that-killed-navajo.html
With a broken gas line gushing, Monique Verdin, Houma, and grassroots radio engineer Govinda Dalton, belted out the best radio broadcast in 2025, from none other than the back roads of New Orleans. The broadcast focused on the years after Hurricane Katrina, and a special studio in the woods for those whose hearts are filled with New Orleans jazz, poetry, and foods from the earth.
The Murder of Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, by U.S. Border Patrol Agents. An interview with Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota host of First Voices Radio, was among our most viewed and listened to. Ofelia described how her lifelong friend Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, was murdered by a crowd of U.S. Border Patrol agents at his home. The Tohono O'odham Nation government refuses to identify the tribal police officer, a non-tribal member, that led the agents there. The Arizona prosecutor refused to charge the agents.
Most Censored in Indian Country in 2025
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/12/federal-appeals-court-heard-case-of.html
Marcus was shot in the eye and blinded in his left eye by law enforcement firing 12-gauge shotguns, loaded with lead-filled bean bags. Sophia was shot with an explosive canister, fired from a 12-gauge shotgun, that blew apart her left arm. Marcus was brutalized on the ground after being shot and strapped to a gunnery in the hospital. Sophia was laughed by officers as she lay on the ground bleeding. Sophia's clothing and evidence were stolen by federal agents in the hospital.
Marcus and Sophia were denied justice by North Dakota courts. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals heard both cases in St. Paul, Minnesota during December, and will issue a ruling. The lawsuits were filed by the MacArthur Justice Center, and are important cases on the issue of the right to peaceful protest and excessive force by police. Marcus and Sophia were defending the water of the Missouri River, the source of water for millions, from the construction of Dakota Access Pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer, when they were critically injured.
A delegation of Native women testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Jamaica in 2019 on excessive force by law enforcement at Standing Rock, and the militarization of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Censored News provided live coverage.
Mohawk Mothers Defend Burial Places at McGill University Hospital in Montreal -- U.S. CIA Torture Site
"We wish we had seen our children who were taken from us, we wanted to see them grow up among us, but we couldn't, because we never saw them again," Kahentinetha said in front of Canada's Supreme Court.
Mohawk Mothers, Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera, continued their battle in 2025 to protect the ground at McGill University's hospital and the search for graves of Native children.
"We have the right and responsibility to represent ourselves to the best of our ability," Kahentinetha said holding the Two Row, which represents the power they have been given to protect the children and the Earth. Kahentinetha said they are speaking to Canada, as a sovereign nation, as Nation to Nation.
The Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University's hospital was the site of the CIA's MK-Ultra mind control and torture experiments using excessive electric shock and drugs. A survivor of torture in her teens said that she saw Native children here, who vanished. She also saw the staff digging graves out back at night with red shovels. Read more at Mohawk Nation News
"The Serpents are Trying to Return"
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The Most Censored in 2025: Censored News ongoing coverage of Native children's deaths in U.S. boarding schools.
Interior Sec. Deb Haaland did not report thousands of children's deaths at U.S. boarding schools from disease, abuse and murder by staff. Censored News, using the Washington Post's raw data, is examining thousands of children's death. Apache children imprisoned with Geronimo, shown here, died in large numbers at Carlisle after being taken from the prisons. Our updated coverage includes the horrific abuse of O'odham, Dine' and other Native girls in Colorado boarding schools, and the lawsuits filed in 2025. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/buried-in-history-native-children-who.html
The Most Censored by the media in 2025: Betrayal Revealed: Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's Interior stalked defenders of Thacker Pass, in a joint terrorism task force in Reno. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/07/law-enforcements-secret-surveillance-of.html
The surveillance by Haaland's BIA and BLM in the joint terrorism task force in Reno, Nevada, intensified when Myron Dewey, Paiute journalist, supported the defense of the Paiute massacre site at Thacker Pass.
Haaland told Associated Press that she supported the lithium drilling at the sacred massacre site Peehee Mu'huh. Myron was known internationally for his drone activism and news reports from Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017.
In opposition to the expansion of a U.S. military bombing range in his Paiute homeland near Reno, Nevada, Myron livestreamed from the bombing range. Myron was killed the next day when a mining engineer hit his vehicle head-on, on an isolated dirt road near his family's home in Yomba, Nevada.
The Indian country media also censored three federal lawsuits filed against Haaland for destruction of sacred places. The Tohono O'odham Nation and San Carlos Apache Nation filed a federal lawsuit to halt the bulldozers after Haaland issued permits for a wind energy project that destroyed ancient villages, medicine grounds, and sacred places in Arizona. A federal judge in Tucson ruled against the tribes. Hualapai filed a federal lawsuit against Haaland for issuing a permit for lithium drilling by an Australian company, at their sacred spring in Arizona. Hopi Federal Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix halted it.
Although Haaland said in interviews that she grew up on Laguna Pueblo, she actually grew up in a military family, and attended 13 schools. Her father was white, a career U.S. Marine.
Haaland said in Farmington, New Mexico, that the atomic bomb industry would lead the "green transition" in the Four Corners. Haaland named the Los Alamos Labs in northern New Mexico, in the heart of the Pueblos, which has already poisoned the land, air and water, with decades of radiation, to lead the so-called "energy transition."
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