September 8, 2026

Mohawk Nation News 'Akwesasne Mohawks Oppose US Senate Bill 3475 to Claim NYS'


AKWESASNE MOHAWKS OPPOSE US SENATE BILL 3475 TO CLAIM NYS
Posted on September 7, 2026 by Shé:kon
Mohawk Nation News


MNN. SEP. 7, 2026. U.S. SENATE BILL 3475 IS A PIECE OF LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN THE 119TH CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE, RATIFY, AND CONFIRM THE AGREEMENT OF SETTLEMENT AND COMPROMISE RATIFYING THE AKWESASNE MOHAWK LAND CLAIM IN NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE.



Press Release Statement Opposing S.3475 Published July 28, 2026 Modified July 28, 2026

We are here today in the spirit of the Two Row Wampum, a concept that predates European settlement on this continent, but is the first treaty made by our ancestors with yours. We are not to interfere with one another’s affairs. Therefore our presence with you today is not to interfere with your affairs, it is to ensure that Bill S.3475 does not interfere with ours. We are here on behalf of Kanien’kehá:ka-Mohawk / Haudenosaunee Governance and Our Future Generations due to our responsibility for the land. Honourable Senators, representatives, officials, relatives, and all those gathered here today: We come before you with respect, humility, and a heavy responsibility; not as your constituents – as Kanien’kehá:ka-Mohawk Nation title holders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. We are here today to oppose the proposed Land Claim Settlement Agreement that would have adverse effects on our Indigenous system of governance, which predates the formation of both the U.S. and Canada. We speak today for the land, the water, the people, the women, the children, for the families, the hereditary leaders, the clans, the ancestors, and for the generations not yet born. We ask you to listen not only with your legal minds, but with your conscience. Because the matter before you is not only a bill before your legislature, this settlement would have long-reaching detrimental impacts.

September 4, 2026

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- While Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- while Federal Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Photo by Tucson Border Patrol

An Epstein survivor describes the child sex trafficking of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson, where she was a victim. She said detainees are being tortured to death during "trafficking tourism." At the same time, Tucson Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall contractors. Meanwhile, the media has ignored a cartel witness from Sinaloa, Mexico, who described the trafficking of young girls in the Epstein files.

Updates: Epstein, the Sinaloa Cartel, and more were at a golf course party in Los Angeles where a Hollywood producer is accused of strangling a girl to death, Mexico's media reports. link Update: Cryptocurrency, how it is used to launder money, scroll down.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 4, 2026

TUCSON -- It is one of the best kept secrets in the Epstein files.
Only one newspaper, in Mexico, reported it.

An FBI protected witness called TS-47, a former cartel operative in Sinaloa, Mexico, said the cartel provided Epstein with girls, 14 to 16 years old, who were trafficked through Laredo, Texas. The cartel operative said he provided girls to Epstein in the U.S. and Caribbean. The arrangements for the girls for "marketing parties" for investors were made at a New Jersey golf course. The current president of the U.S. is implicated, Excelsior reports.

This week, an Epstein survivor described how U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson were sex trafficking children as young as 9 years old.

"I am a survivor of presidential-level political blackmail and sexual espionage, blackmail trafficking," Heather said during a series of videos.

Heather was kidnapped and forced into Epstein's sex trafficking operations in Tucson, Arizona, from the time she was nine until she was thirteen years old.

She described how children in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson were trained and used for sex espionage of high profile people, for the purpose of blackmail.

Epstein's partner Ghislaine Maxwell would come to Tucson for the purpose of child sex espionage training in border patrol facilities, which was also carried out at a "dude ranch," Heather said.

She said she will soon release videos of people who were "un-alived."

She said she was brought in, with other children, because Customs and Border Protection did not have enough children for "trafficking tourism" in Tucson. She was also trafficked in Virginia as an adult. She was trafficked by the largest Christian organization in Washington DC at the time.

The most extreme, brutal and horrific content is worth the most to those who pay for trafficking tourism, she said.

That is why we hear about such extreme experiences coming out of some of these blackmail operations.

She said the best place to get away with really extreme violence is always going to be within a prison or a military black site or an ICE detention facility.

"This entire criminal underworld is so invisible to so many people," she said.

So far, the media has not reported this.

Tucson Border Patrol Seizes Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

The survivor's testimony comes at the same time that Tucson's Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own sovereign land, to issue citations to border wall construction crews.

Masked and armed federal agents swarmed onto the sovereign nation protecting border wall construction crews last week.

The crews immediately began drilling.

The federal agents were from the Border Patrol's special ops SWAT team based in El Paso; Tucson Border Patrol and BIA police.

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed a federal appeal of its case, after a federal judge ruled against the tribe. However, if the appeal isn't fast-tracked, the wall will be built before the case is heard. The border wall will block O'odham in their ancestral territory south of the border from their families in the U.S. The border wall construction will blow up six mountain peaks and destroy burial places and ceremonial places.

The armed intrusion of the Tohono O'odham Nation violates a federal judge's order for the U.S. to consult with the tribe before proceeding.

Further the media reports are misleading. Federal Judge Richard Leon did not decide ownership of the land along the border in his ruling. Judge Leon said it is "likely" Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-feet-wide strip along the border declared by presidential proclamation in 1907.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said it has been O'odham land since time immemorial and is now officially the tribal nation's land.

The Tohono O'odham Nation's federal lawsuit to halt construction of the border wall names the officials at US Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, and US Border Patrol, by name, as the defendants.

The head of US Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, is an enrolled Cherokee.

Epstein's Shadow in Mexico: Trafficking and the US Ambassador

Epstein was also in Mexico. Minors were trafficked from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and South Africa for Epstein, El Pais reports.
It reveals the alleged crime of the U.S. Ambassador with an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant, at the U.S. consulate building in Juarez, south of El Paso, Texas.

Mexican federal police found a vault of videos and offered those to U.S. authorities, El Pais reports.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been arrested all along the southern border for drug running, spotting for the cartels to bring their loads across, assault, kidnapping, serial rape and murder. The media has failed to report most of the crimes.

Extreme Violence of Victims in Border Patrol and ICE Facilities and Prisons

Heather, describing the violence in sex trafficking and tracking tourism in government facilities, said the most extreme -- brutal and horrific content -- is worth the most money.

"That is why we hear about such extreme experiences coming out of some of these blackmail operations."

She said the best place to get away with really extreme violence is always going to be within a prison or a military black site or an ICE detention facility.

"They already have a framework in place where torture is justified. It is possible."

She said it is not going to be seen by the public.

"They already have in place, they have all of these rooms that are walled off from each other, they have the physical facility. They have the detained, you know, imprisoned population."

She said they have guards, especially within ICE, that are hired intentionally who got kicked out of other police departments, or other places, for using excessive force and being really, really violent people.

"They're intentionally hiring people who are really really scary folks and they are grooming the guards to be increasingly violent. This is a grooming process just all around to create a culture where this is possible."

"And then you have all of these detained, you know, imprisoned people who have very very little access to attorneys or to phone calls or to any kind of ability to get those stories out into the outside world, it's just kind of a black box."

She said they created a situation where people don't seem to be as up in arms as we would hope when people go missing.

"There are a very large number of people missing from 'Alligator Alcatraz.' A very very large number. And why are there not riots in the street right now over where are these people?"

"There are missing humans, a very very large number of missing people from these facilities. There are dead people from these facilities where their deaths are not being investigated."

Speaking of the dead and disappeared in the 'Alligator Alcatraz,' she said, "I witnessed what's happening there. It hurts my brain so much. I kind of like panic and shut down. And I know that happens to a lot of us when we see these really upsetting things on the news."

"But now is not a time to."

"Check out, look at what happened to the Uyghur in China. What is happening right now to the Palestinians?"

Speaking on genocide, she then said, "That is coming for all of us. That was a mass grooming process to make us look away to explode our brains so that the horror was so extreme we would just like, cover our eyes and look away. They're doing to that to us to us now."

"They are grooming us to look away. We need to stand up and protest now before it is
too late over these missing people.

"There are missing humans. There are humans missing out of detention. There are dozens and dozens of of dead people who were murdered in detention. Many of whom are known to have been tortured to death. This is not the time for silence. This is not the time for complacency."

"There is genocide going on within ICE detention. I witnessed it going as far back as 1995."

Cryptocurrency: How it is used to launder money

Cryptocurrency was promoted by Epstein in Arizona, along with genetics and A.I. using non-profits to funnel money to promote this agenda.

There has been little, if any, media coverage in the U.S. of Epstein's involvement with the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.

Mexico's media has a few articles on it. These include Epstein's parties using trafficked girls, with cartel members, at a golf course in Los Angeles.

How does cryptocurrency work? This case, although apparently unrelated, shows how cryptocurrency is used for money laundering, to 'wash' and disappear it. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mexican-national-pleads-guilty-laundering-more-19m-drug-trafficking-proceeds

Epstein funded MIT, which was involved with numerous projects at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation. Further, MIT also carried out health screening for Navajo preschoolers on the western Navajo Nation, which included drawing blood. MIT also was involved with a Navajo individual in an enterprise that was promoted as a non-profit, but actually used cyber currency in a for-profit enterprise.

References

Witness TS-47 told the FBI that the Sinaloa cartel provided Epstein with girls in the U.S. and at Epstein's homes in the Caribbean. Excelsior reports.
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/fluia-trafico-ninas-mexico-epstein-cartel-sinaloa-detras

Epstein’s shadow in Mexico: A diplomat under scrutiny, thousands of videos and alleged ties to drug trafficking

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-16/epsteins-shadow-in-mexico-a-diplomat-under-scrutiny-thousands-of-videos-and-alleged-ties-to-drug-trafficking.html

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson's Customs and Border Protection in Tucson. Statements on videos :https://www.facebook.com/reel/909047761917053


On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfSHJCo5tQ


Censored News 2026




September 2, 2026

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs


Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is being bulldozed for a second border wall. Bulldozers are 0.7 miles from Quitobaquito Springs. Photo from video by Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity.

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 2, 2026

Bulldozers are now crushing the life of the natural world on Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, 0.7 miles from the sacred ceremonial place of O'odham, Quitobaquito Springs. It is home to three endangered species, a pupfish, a snail, and a mud turtle.

One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona


One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona

One land defender turned around a bunch of military, National Guard, today, with a cop rented helicopter coming to the rescue. At the end of the day, the land defenders are still there. Great work KPFA Radio on the ground. O'odham are with land defenders at the tree sit in Lochiel, Arizona, where they don't back down. 'No border wall.' -- Censored News.

By KPFA, Sept. 2, 2026

Tribal members and activists are continuing to occupy tree sits, blockades and a prayer camp at several points along the U.S. / Mexico border in Arizona to resist the expansion of the Trump administration’s border wall, which they say amounts to ecocide and violates Tribal sovereignty.

In Lochiel, Arizona, tensions escalated this morning, with additional federal law enforcement entering areas near the encampment.

September 1, 2026

US Government is Preventing Tohono O'odham Nation Police From Entering Their Sovereign Land

 

Photo courtesy Tohono O'odham Nation. US Border Patrol preventing tribal police from entering the Tohono O'odham Nation's sovereign land as border wall drillers began drilling.

US Government is Preventing Tohono O'odham Nation Police From Entering Their Sovereign Land

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 2, 2026

SELLS, Tohono O'odham Nation -- The U.S. Border Patrol is preventing Tohono O'odham Nation's tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall construction crews.

The crews are violating the 'No Trespass' order to build the border wall. Drilling is underway,

August 30, 2026

Honoring the Movements and People who Inspire. Warriors, Writers and Dreamers -- Censored News 20th Anniversary.

 

Klee Benally, Dine' writer, musician and revolutionary, Debra White Plume, Lakota, wife, mom, writer and revolutionary; Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, writer, photographer and human rights advocate; Marcos, Zapatista revolutionary, Michelle Cook, Dine' human rights lawyer; Floyd Westerman, Lakota musician and icon; Bolivian President Evo Morales, leader and revolutionary.

Honoring the Movements and People who Inspire us. Warriors, Writers and Dreamers -- A Thread Runs Through Them. Censored News 20th Anniversary.

'Know who you are, and never let anyone take your power from you.'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 30, 2026


Kahentinetha is publisher of Mohawk Nation News and a Mohawk Mother holding Canada responsible for kidnapped, missing, tortured and murdered Native children. Kahentinetha holds her Haudenosaunee passport during the border summit in San Xavier, Tohono O'odham Nation, in 2007. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

We're coming up on our 20th anniversary at Censored News, and we are honoring the warriors, leaders, writers and dreamers who make Censored News possible.

When the Mohawks came for the border summit in 2006 and 2007, it was, as they say in the movie Casablanca, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

August 29, 2026

Tohono O'odham Nation -- US Government is Violating Laws for Unnecessary Border Wall


Border wall drilling rig on the Tohono O'odham O'odham Nation protected by armed federal agents.
Photo courtesy Tohono O'odham Nation.

Tohono O'odham Nation -- US Government is Violating Laws for Unnecessary Border Wall

Censored News, August 28, 2026

The Tohono O'odham Nation said today that the U.S. Government is violating laws and their sovereignty as armed agents continue to protect border wall contractors -- who continue  drilling on the Nation. The Nation is working on court appeals and points out that the U.S. failed to consult the Nation as required by law. Further, the Nation said that a political candidate, Daniel Butierez, violated tribal laws by livestreaming on the Nation without permission, and made derogatory statements about O'odham.


 

Masked and Armed U.S. Border Patrol Agents Threaten Land Defenders in Lochiel Again Today


 

'No Border Wall' Masked and Armed U.S. Border Patrol Threatened Land Defenders in Lochiel Today, Saturday

Censored News, August 29, 2026

LOCHIEL, Arizona -- U.S. Border Patrol Agents swarmed the Tree Sit at Lochiel, threatening land defenders who shut down border wall construction this week in a bi-national and peaceful protest of construction of the border wall east of Nogales, Arizona

Land Defenders said, "Another big show of force from masked Border Patrol this morning."

"We are facing extreme harassment, but we remain resilient and committed."

"Camp is ongoing, and we need your support. The tree sit holds strong and will not be intimidated," land defenders said today, Saturday, as they protect a Grandmother cottonwood tree from destruction for the border wall.

August 28, 2026

O'odham Women Join Tree Sit and Shut Down Border Wall Construction in Lochiel, Arizona

O'odham on the front line today at Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona

Breaking News -- Border Patrol Threatened Land Defenders in Lochiel Again Today, Saturday Censored News, August 29, 2026

LOCHIEL, Arizona -- U.S. Border Patrol Agents swarmed the Tree Sit at Lochiel, threatening land defenders who shut down border wall construction this week in a bi-national and peaceful protest of construction of the border wall east of Nogales, Arizona

Land Defenders said, "Another big show of force from masked Border Patrol this morning."

"We are facing extreme harassment, but we remain resilient and committed."

"Camp is ongoing, and we need your support. The tree sit holds strong and will not be intimidated," land defenders said today, Saturday, as they protect a Grandmother cottonwood tree from destruction for the border wall.


Friday Update, after the video was shared today of O'odham women joining the Tree Sit, US Border Patrol swarmed the tree sit in Lochiel, Arizona. Video on Instagram: by tierralibre_noborders



Armed U.S. Border Patrol swarmed the Tree Sit at Lochiel. Screenshot Censored News


August 27, 2026

Mexico's Police Deployed to aid Invasion of Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction




Mexico's Police Deployed to Aid in Invasion of Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 27, 2026

Mexico's police were deployed to the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation on Wednesday, after being requested by U.S. Homeland Security, for the protection of the border wall construction crews who invaded sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation land with a drilling rig.

August 26, 2026

'NO BORDER WALL' Land Defenders Block Trucks at Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona



Blocking the border wall trucks at the Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona.
Watch the video to the sounds of 'Wage Against the Machine.'

Land defenders halt the construction of the border wall in a three-mile stretch on Wednesday, near the "Grandmother's Tree," as binational resistance grows to border wall construction, on both sides of the so-called border, the group said in Lochiel, east of Nogales, on August 26, 2026.
"We are putting our bodies on the line."
Watch videos in English and Espanol

NOW! Border Wall Construction Crews on Tohono O'odham Nation

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Border Wall construction crews were escorted on to the Tohono O'odham Nation by masked and armed federal agents, and began drilling immediately today. Photo: Tohono O'odham Nation

NOW! Border Wall Construction Crews on Tohono O'odham Nation 


Update: Just before noon today, the contractor's drill was set up, surrounded by a swarm of US Border Patrol agents. The Tohono O'odham Nation said the 

Border Patrol has set up a vehicle barrier to prevent tribal police from entering the area on their tribal land and issuing citations. The heavy-handed U.S. security on tribal land at the site includes the U.S. Border Patrol special ops which is the BORTAC SWAT team based in El Paso; BIA officers, and Border Patrol from Tucson. Mexico's police have been deployed to protect border wall contractors from Mexico's south side.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 26, 2026

SELLS, TOHONO O'odham Nation -- The Tohono O'odham Nation said that twenty masked and armed federal agents from Tucson entered their sovereign tribal land accompanying border wall construction crews at 4 am on Tuesday, in violation of tribal sovereignty.

August 25, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Arizona Copper Mine Exploration Threatening Mexican Spotted Owls

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Copper Creek Canyon. Photo credit: Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity


Lawsuit Challenges Arizona Copper Mine Exploration Threatening Mexican Spotted Owls

By Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, August 25, 2026

MAMMOTH, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance sued the Trump administration today for approving exploratory drilling for a copper mine that threatens Mexican spotted owls and other imperiled wildlife near Arizona’s iconic San Pedro River.

“Federal officials knew that Mexican spotted owls were in the project area and still approved more than 1,300 acres of industrial drilling on our public lands,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. 

OAK FLAT: Copper Mine will Guzzle Water and Dump Massive Toxic Waste

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Photo by Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache. Rest in Power.

OAK FLAT: Copper Mine will Guzzle Water and Dump Massive Toxic Waste

By Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, August 25, 2026

After years of opposition from a diverse coalition — including Indigenous Tribes and the Center for Biological Diversity — the Trump administration finalized the transfer of 2,422 acres of public lands in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest to a foreign mining giant. These lands include Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site threatened by the company’s plan to build one of the biggest underground copper mines in North America.

To do that it needs to acquire 8,200 acres of Arizona state trust land, an area known as Skunk Camp, to build a facility where it can dump more than a billion tons of toxic mining waste.

Navajo Nation Council approves Sacred Site Legislation at Confluence




Navajo Nation Council approves Sacred Site Legislation at Confluence

by Halne'e | Aug 24, 2026 | News

The Navajo Nation Council agreed, in a 18 yes and none opposed vote, an area inside the Grand Canyon be designated a sacred site Monday during a special session.

The area near “The Confluence,” the point where the Colorado River and Little Colorado River meet, abuts Grand Canyon National Park, on the Western Navajo Nation near Bodaway/Gap Chapter. Locals call the area Tóahidíídlih, “Where the rivers meet,” in the Navajo language.

August 22, 2026

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall
Photo: Border Wall construction near Yuma, Arizona. Photo US Army Corps of Engineers.

A federal judge's rejection of the Tohono O'odham Nation's lawsuit to stop construction of the border wall means the blowing up of six mountain peaks and a heavy construction staging area on tribal land to be chosen by contractors. The Nation is now considering its options.

August 21, 2026

Anonymous Gives Officers 48 Hours to Turn Themselves In -- Operation Morton County Engaged 2016 Updated

Anonymous Message to Morton County Sheriff Removed at YouTube

Censored News, Aug. 22, 2026

STANDING ROCK, North Dakota -- One of Censored News most viewed articles this week is the Anonymous video concerning Morton County and violent law enforcement, during the defense of the water at Standing Rock.

The rest of the story came later from Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier in a separate case, North Dakota v US.

August 19, 2026

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

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Bulldozers scrape the sweet earth bare today near O'odham's Sacred Quitobaquito Springs. Video by Russ McSpadden.

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 18, 2026

QUITOBAQUITO SPRINGS, Arizona -- The ancestral land of O'odham is being stripped bare near Sacred Quitobaquito Springs, home to pupfish, snails and turtles found nowhere else in the world, except here in the fragile Sonoran Desert. 

Quitobaquito Springs is a place of prayer and ceremony for O'odham. The federal government is destroying this land for a second border wall, that is being protested here on the Arizona border, and from California to Texas.

The roads are closed, but Russ McSpadden hiked into the area Monday and found the destruction underway at Organ Pipe National Monument.

The Hungry Hounds: US Border Patrol Lurks at Tohono O'odham Nation Border

US Border Patrol at Tohono O'odham Nation's border. Photo Russ McSpadden.


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News. August

The Hungry Hounds: US Border Patrol Lurks at Tohono O'odham Nation Border

The Hungry Hounds: The U.S. Border Patrol lurks awaiting its prey at the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation, near the Nation's new 'NO TRESPASSING" signs directed at border wall contractors.

The US Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security and its plan to seize the Nation's land for the border wall. The US Border Patrol already has open access to the land of the Tohono O'odham Nation, and a spy system in place to track O'odham and watch them.

August 17, 2026

Indigenous at the United Nations Expose A.I. Data Centers and Racially-Biased Misinformation

Indigenous at the United Nations Expose A.I. Data Centers and Racially-Biased Misinformation

Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council

Update: Today, August 17, 2026: 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying large quantities of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning the books for AI, artificial intelligence. 404 Media placed a tracking device in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, known as VGT3. AI companies have been data-scraping the Internet, including copyrighted books, news articles, music and ancestral knowledge for their money-making industries. -- Censored News.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2026, Updated

GENEVA -- The mediocre, middle-of-the-road approach to A.I. at the United Nations was countered by testimony today from Indigenous Peoples pointing out that artificial intelligence is not a solution, and is doing great harm to Indigenous with derogatory misinformation and massive data centers that are poisoning the land, water and air.

August 15, 2026

U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Want Qualified Immunity


Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham

U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Want Qualified Immunity

Tohono O'odham Raymond Mattia's family said the U.S. Border Patrol is using an edited, redacted video of the agents murdering Raymond at his home on the Tohono O'odham Nation and the video is not reliable evidence.

By Courthouse News

SAN FRANCISO — A Ninth Circuit panel appeared unlikely on Wednesday to reverse the denial of qualified immunity to three Border Patrol agents who shot and killed an unarmed man on his front lawn in the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The family of Raymond Mattia, killed in 2023, says the three-judge panel cannot rely on “an edited and untested, incomplete and redacted body camera compilation” to challenge claims made in the lawsuit, which must be taken as fact at the motion to dismiss stage.

August 14, 2026

U.S. Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful Protesters During Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals


Tipis stand at Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring), a sacred site for the Dakota and other tribes, across from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Tuesday in Minneapolis.Kerem Yücel | MPR News, Feb. 11, 2026.

U.S. Manufactured Crimes and Spied on Peaceful Protesters During Minneapolis Metro Surge, New Court Filing Reveals

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 14, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS -- While Dakotas were praying at a sacred spring for those held in federal detention at the Whipple building in Minneapolis -- the U.S. government was spying on, and stalking, the Whipple watchers, a new court document reveals.

The government is now refusing to release all of its documents on its surveillance of those watching the Whipple building. The Whipple building is on the site of a former concentration camp, where Dakota and Ho Chunk were imprisoned, suffered and died.

August 13, 2026

Energy Fuels under Investigation for Insider Trading

White Mesa Ute protest Energy Fuels' radioactive dump in their community.
Photo by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, Censored News

Energy Fuels is being investigated for insider trading


 
Bears Ears opened up for new uranium mining. Photo Tim Petersen, Grand Canyon Trust

By KNAU Radio in Flagstaff 

House Democrats are investigating the uranium mining company Energy Fuels for alleged insider trading.

The investigation centers on whether Energy Fuels executives received privileged information about Trump’s planned slashing of Bears Ears National Monument before the news became public, and if they used that information to purchase stock in their own business. The company said in a statement provided to KNAU that it "strongly rejects any suggestion that the Company or its executives engaged in any improper conduct.”

Borders Kill at Lochiel. The Death of a Nation.

Borders Kill at Lochiel -- The Death of a Nation.

Day 14 at the Tree Sit on the Arizona Border.

Nelson Mandela: "A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (1994.)

Video at https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7HW88sv7c/
Collage by Censored News.

August 12, 2026

Media is Confusing the Public with Misleading Photos of Tohono O'odham

Media is Confusing the Public with Misleading Photos of Tohono O'odham


The media is using an out-dated photo that is not related to the current 'No Trespass' notice to border wall contractors, and it is misleading.

By Ofelia Rivas and Brenda Norrell, Censored News, 12, August 2026

Many news reporters are using out-dated photos of the Tohono O'odham Nation that are not related to the current 'No Trespassing' warnings to border wall contractors. The use of out-dated photos of the border protest nine years ago is misleading. In fact, tribal police threatened supporters with arrest if they traveled to the border protest through tribal lands in the United States.

Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, said today that the photos of the border protest by O'odham in Mexico were taken nine years ago. The media's use now is misleading and shows disrespect for O'odham Elders.

Dine' Take Over Meeting of Laramide's Proposed Uranium Mine in Churchrock

Community members took over the Laramide meeting organized by the New Mexico Environment Department over its Discharge Permit application on August 6, 2026 at Fire Rock Casino in Gallup, New Mexico. Photo by Sarah Knopp.

Diné Community Members Take Over Uranium Company Public Meeting to Express Adamant Opposition to Yet Another New Uranium Mining Proposal

NM Environment Dept. Meeting about the Crownpoint Uranium Project Reveals Deep-Seated Anger That Contamination from Previous Mining Has Still Not Been Cleaned Up

Coalition Statement, August 12, 2026, Censored News

GALLUP, New Mexico -- Impacted community members took over an informational meeting scheduled by Laramide Resources on August 6th at the Fire Rock Casino near Gallup, New Mexico, to discuss its plans and required permitting to conduct uranium in situ leach mining in Churchrock.

Eyes on the Sky after Tohono O'odham Nation' Posts 'No Trespass' Signs for Border Wall Construction Crews



Eyes on the Sky after Tohono O'odham Nation' Posts 'No Trespass' Signs for Border Wall Construction Crews

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 12, 2026

Tohono O'odham Nation -- These combat jets that carry out dangerous maneuvers over the Tohono O'odahm Nation are led by a private company, ATAC. The company is contracted by the Air Force and based at Luke Air Force base in the Phoenix Valley at Glendale. These jets endanger the lives of O'odham with flares, sonic booms break plaster in traditional O'odham homes, and there is the risk of crashes. ATAC jets have crashed in other areas, killing the pilots.

August 11, 2026

Day 14: Tree Sitter Saving Old Growth Cottonwood: Arizona Border Wall Resistance

Day 14: Tree Sitter Saving Old Growth Cottonwood: Arizona Border Wall Resistance

The cicadas are singing, but for how long. Voice from the protectors of the grandmother cottonwood today at the tree sit on the Arizona border, east of Nogales, as the monster machines scrape into the earth for border wall dollars. Tuesday, Day 14. https://www.facebook.com/kate.scott.973823

August 10, 2026

Christine Prat, Friend and Translator, Passes to Spirit World

Christine Prat with Klee Benally at the premier of "Powerlines" in Montreal, France. 
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/klee-benallys-powerlines-shows-in-france.html

Christine Prat, Friend and Translator, Passes to Spirit World

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 9, 2026 Updated

It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news of the passing of Christine Prat, our friend and translator. Christine translated Censored News into French. We met through our mutual friend Klee Benally, more than a decade ago. She translated Klee's book, No Spiritual Surrender, into French, and struggled till the end with cancer to translate our stories and share them with the world.

Christine never compromised, supported Palestine and the fight against Elbit's Israeli spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

After the U.S. denied her a visa to enter the United States in later years, she never backed down, and continued her work in France. She began the translations with the Hopi Nation's struggle to protect sacred San Francisco Peaks 14 years ago.

Christine's translations were among the most censored at Censored News, including the water rights struggle of Yaqui in Sonora. Many were assassinated after blocking the highway in defense of the water.

In French and English, her stories were read around the world, stories with the voices from Big Mountain, Standing Rock, Oak Flat, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Peehee Mu'hah, and the desert borderlands. She wrote of Angela Davis in Paris, the struggle for Peltier's release, and the Native women's delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and those who testified in Jamaica.

We remember her courage, her boldness, and send our condolences to her husband Theo and their family.

Christine struggled until the end. This is the last message I received from her in April. as she was dying of cancer.

"Sorry for not answering and doing nothing, I am very ill and it is difficult to do anything. However, I do want to go on. At the moment, I am collecting articles about lithium mines projects. We are threatened in France, as well as many other countries. As I have translated quite a lot of articles about PeeHee Mu'hu, I would like to translate or write more articles about lithium mines, all in two languages, trying to make a link between all victims of mining. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish, as there are also lithium mines projects in South America.
Electric cars, lithium, cobalt, AI, etc., we got a general attack on the world.
Hope I'll manage to at least start something before I pass to the other world."'

In memory, carry on.

August 9, 2026

No Border Wall: 'First Stake Driven' on Tohono O'odham Nation for 'No Trespass' Signs at The Gate



No Border Wall: 'First Stake Driven' by O'odham on Tohono O'odham Nation for 'No Trespass' Signs at The Gate

'First Stake Driven'
These photos were taken yesterday afternoon at the San Miguel Gate known as 'Koli Ki:jig' located in the Chukut Kuk District, on August 9, 2026. The first stake was driven for the 'NO Trespass' signs at the Tohono O'odham Nation and Mexico border, know as 'The Gate.'

Tohono O'odham Airspace: Combat Jets Endanger O'odham. Mystery Plane Returns.


Update August 9, 2026: This small unidentified plane flew in circles around the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation this morning at 1:30 a.m., apparently finishing whatever work they are doing from above. An unidentified plane flew in the same pattern on Aug. 3 at 3 a.m. on the western portion of the border above the Tohono O'odham Nation. The plane flies out of El Paso and then returns there. Yesterday the Tohono O'odham Nation closed its border to border wall construction crews and posted "No Trespassing" signs, alerting tribal police to escort them off if they attempt to enter. -- Censored News.

August 8, 2026

NO BORDER WALL: Tohono O'odham Closes Nation to Non-Members


"No Trespassing" warning posted today on Tohono O'odham Nation border. Courtesy photo for Censored News.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 8, 2026

SELLS, Arizona -- The Tohono O'odham Nation closed its borders to border wall construction crews today, stating if they attempt to enter, they will be escorted off tribal lands by tribal police. Further, the Nation told O'odham to report suspicious activity to tribal police.

"Please be aware that 'no trespassing' signs have been posted in several locations on the Nation. Tohono O’odham law enforcement is on alert to turn back trespassers.
All O’odham are free to travel as usual."

"The restrictions are only for non-tribal members who are attempting to destroy our land and separate our people with the construction of the wall," the Nation said.