Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024

Tó Nizhóní Ání, Sacred Water Speaks, traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024. 

 

Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024

Black Mesa youth travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week to share the need to protect our water in the face of false solutions and climate change.

 

by Adrian Herder, Media/Community Organizer, Censored News

adrian@tonizhoniani.org

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024, an international leading conference on global water issues organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute.

Earlier this year, Tó Nizhóní Ání was invited to attend World Water Week 2024 and asked to be on a panel on Green Colonialism. The Sámi national youth organization, Sáminuorra, organized this panel. Given this panel's Indigenous youth focus, Tó Nizhóní Ání took this opportunity to fund raise and send a delegation of Diné (Navajo) youth from the Black Mesa region to represent and speak on this topic.

The Art of Survival: Photos by Andy Dann -- Survival School at Wood Springs

The Art of Survival: Photos by Andy Dann Survival School at Wood Springs

Big Mountain Warrior Leonard Benally: 'We want to share our struggle'

Big Mountain Warrior Leonard Benally spent his life fighting Peabody Coal in his homeland and forced relocation from Big Mountain

Today, we share again the words of Leonard Benally of Big Mountain.

Leonard's sister, Louise Benally said today, "Tell the world, this is the same as it is today."

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Updated Oct. 10, 2021

“We have been living in silence and we have been dying in silence. We want to share with others our struggle. If we walk alone, we are useless, we are nothing,” Leonard Benally said.

It was with great sadness that we shared the news of our dear friend and brother Leonard Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain, passing to the Spirit World in 2013.

Dine' Leonard Benally of Big Mountain, who spent his life fighting Peabody Coal and resisting relocation from his homeland, passed to the Spirit World on Friday. Leonard's family spent the past decades resisting relocation from Black Mesa and naming the names of those responsible for the misery that Navajos are surviving, including tribal politicians, attorneys, and Arizona Congressmen.

Trump's Genocidal, Toxic Team to COP23, with Peabody Coal Leading the Way

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In a Time of Monsters, Trump Enables the Monster Makers

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

White House pushing coal, gas and nuclear energy at UN Climate Summit today. Trump's toxic team with Peabody Coal. 

https://www.usea.org/article/usea-industry-trump-administration-talk-future-fossil-fuels-cop23

Trump is sending a genocidal toxic team to the U.N. Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, with Peabody Coal leading the way.

Peabody Coal' s mining on Black Mesa has led to 40 years of human suffering and forced relocation for Dineh. Those Dineh who remain and resist relocation have spent 40 years living without running water and electricity, while Peabody drains the aquifer and poisons the air.

The coal lights up southern Arizona from the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station on the Navajo Nation. It is one of the dirtiest, most polluting power plants in the world.

Trump is the latest in a long line of corrupt politicians who target Indian lands with genocidal and toxic coal mining and coal fired power plants.

Trump's delegation to COP23 includes more genocidal polluters from the nuclear and gas industries.

Meanwhile, throughout Indian country, fracking, drilling, flaring of oil and gas is destroying the land, water and air. Workers' "man camps" attract criminals engaged in illegal drugs and sex crimes, as documented on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota.

As for nuclear energy, there is no safe way to produce nuclear energy. There is no safe way to transport or dispose of nuclear waste.

Western Shoshone have lived with the radioactive fallout from the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, and now battle nuclear dumping at sacred Yucca Mountain.

Navajos and Pueblos were sent to their deaths during the Cold War, mining uranium without protective clothing. Today, radioactive tailings remain scattered across the Navajo Nation.

Out of control with destruction, the Trump administration now targets the Arctic with drilling and urges uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, with no respect or sanity.

The New York Times reported, Trump Team to Promote Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power at Bonn Climate Talks:

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will promote coal, natural gas and nuclear energy as an answer to climate change at a presentation during a United Nations global warming conference this month, the White House confirmed Thursday.

The program is billed as a discussion of how American energy resources, particularly fossil fuels, can help poor countries meet electricity needs and drive down greenhouse gas emissions. Entitled “The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Climate Mitigation,” it will feature speakers from Peabody Energy, a coal company; NuScale Power, a nuclear engineering firm; and Tellurian, a liquefied natural gas exporter.

Read more at the New York Times, article by Lisa Friedman: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/climate/trump-coal-cop23-bonn.html

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Bad Bear Walking for the Salmon now, photos The baddest bear around is once again walking, Walking for the Salmon, Seattle to San Francisco. "We did 60 miles today, walking and running in groups," Bad Bear said after they passed alongside the Rogue River, Siskiyou National Forest, on Oregon's coastline. Thank you Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson for sharing your photos with Censored News since 2008. Nine year ago, we crossed this land on the Longest Walk 2 northern route, Bad Bear walking, and Govinda and I broadcasting live on Earthcycles radio. Bad Bear kept on walking. -- Brenda, Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/11/bad-bear-walking-for-salmon-photos.html UPDATE: WECAN at COP23 Climate Talks in Germany Posted: 11 Nov 2017 07:34 PM PST Outstanding global women leaders - who will present at the November 13  WECAN event during UNFCCC COP23 - details below! Dear Friends and Allies, The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network is currently on the ground in Bonn, Germany, engaged in intensive climate justice advocacy and action with our Delegation

Trump's Genocidal, Toxic Team to COP23, with Peabody Coal Leading the Way Posted: 11 Nov 2017 11:09 AM PST Big Mountain In a Time of Monsters, Trump Enables the Monster Makers By Brenda Norrell Censored News Trump is sending a genocidal toxic team to the U.N. Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, with Peabody Coal leading the way. Peabody Coal' s mining on Black Mesa has led to 40 years of human suffering and forced relocation for Dineh. Those Dineh who remain and resist relocation have  Leonard Peltier Concert was Wonderful Success Posted: 10 Nov 2017 05:11 PM PST Greetings Friend, Family and Supporters; It has been an amazing 2 weeks since we opened the National Office here in Tampa, FL. I have had so much hel   Greetings Friend, Family and Supporters; It has been an amazing 2 weeks since we opened the National Office here in Tampa, FL. I have had so much help from Leonard's supporters here in FL.  Dineh Leona Morgan 'NO NUKES!' at U.N. Climate Summit COP23 Posted: 10 Nov 2017 05:14 PM PST Photos by Marcus Atkinson  "The Women in the Sand' Premiere, Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley Posted: 10 Nov 2017 12:32 PM PST THE WOMEN IN THE SAND PREMIERE AT RED NATION FILM FESTIVAL, LOS ANGELES Friday, Nov. 10, 2017DIRECTOR STEVE JARVISDOCUMENTARY • 60 MINUTES 13:12 sec • USATRAILER Two feisty elders of the Timbisha Tribe struggle with the US Government and their own tribal council to overcome injustice to save their ancient tribal culture in Death Valley, CA. Through legends and stories, Pauline and Maddy  Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Lock Down Wisconsin Posted: 08 Nov 2017 08:17 PM PST Photo by Rob Wilson Photo by Rob Wilson Photo by Rob Wilson Makwa Initiative - Line 3 Frontline Resistance Today, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 Water Protectors Lock Together Inside Pipeline, Shut Down Last Stretch of Wisconsin Line 3 Construction Early this morning, a group of water protectors from the Makwa Initiative halted the last piece of construction for the Wisconsin  'Join O'odham, Oppose Spy Towers on O'odham Land' by Ophelia Rivas Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:46 PM PST . Israel's Elbit Systems Integrated Fixed Towers was granted the U.S. border contract Contact Ophelia Rivas 4oodhamrights@gmail.com Ophelia Rivas is founder of O'odham Voice against the Wall http://www.solidarity-project.org/  Tuscarora Youth Says North Carolina Violated His Hunting Rights, Charged Him Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:54 PM PST Tuscarora Youth Says North Carolina Violated his Hunting Rights, Charged Him With Two Violations By Brenda Norrell Censored News Marcus Bullard, 18, Wolf Clan and an enrolled member of the Tuscarora Nation of the North Carolina Territory, is an active citizen of the Prospect Long House. Marcus was exercising his rights as an Indigenous grassroots member of the Tuscarora Nation, when  Flagstaff City Council Passes Resolution Opposing Uranium Mining and Transport Posted: 08 Nov 2017 10:22 AM PST City of Flagstaff Passes Resolution Opposing Uranium Mining and Transport Commits to State, Federal, and Municipal Legislative ActionArticle by Klee Benally Photos by Caleb Eckert stopcanyonmine@gmail.comwww.haulno.org Tuesday, November 7, 2017FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — The Flagstaff City Council has passed a resolution opposing uranium mining and transport from the Canyon Mine, located just Shoshone Defenders of Yucca Mountain Appointed to Nuclear Regulatory Advisory Panel Posted: 08 Nov 2017 09:27 AM PST Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte (front) and Timbisha Shoshone Joe Kennedy appointed, defenders of Yucca Mountain. Shoshone appointed to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel By Native Community Action CouncilP.O. Box 46301Las Vegas, NV 89114www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.orgTuesday, November 7, 2017As a tribal community stakeholder group, the  Mohawk Nation News ' Shacks, Shovels and Slop Pails' Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:54 PM PST Read article at Mohawk Nation News .http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2017/11/08/hacks-shovels-slop-pails7846/  Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara want voice in pipeline code, by Lisa DeVille Posted: 08 Nov 2017 10:03 AM PST . Lisa DeVille Letter the Editor Censored NewsBy:  Lisa DeVille, President Fort Berthold Protectors of Water and Earth RightsMandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Tribal Business Council also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes is currently taking public comments on the proposed pipeline code that would create a pipeline authority on Fort Berthold.The code will give the MHA/TAT Pipeline  Video song by Hopi Ed Kabotie 'You can't be brown in this town' Flagstaff, Arizona Posted: 08 Nov 2017 08:34 AM PST . Listen below to the video, great lyrics about 'being brown' in Flagstaff, Arizona Recorded live by Christine Prat at Flagstaff, Arizona 2017 https://vimeo.com/241778560 Artist Bio My name is Ed Kabotie. I am from the Hopi village of Shungopavi and the Tewa village of Khap'o Owinge (Santa Clara Pueblo, NM). My culture is the greatest inspiration of my music. By mixing genres,

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Dineh Louise Benally "Racist Hillary, Goldwater and Relocation"

Louise Benally, Dineh, Big Mountain, resister of relocation for 40 years. Photo by Christine Prat.

Censored News Series: Racism in America

By Louise Benally, Dineh
Censored News

Hi Brenda,

As you know Racism is alive and well in America the beautiful, all the Indian policy on water and land rights.
The current relocation bill 93-531 is one big racist law that still exists today.
It wants water and land from our community here on Black Mesa -- coal and water -- to keep central and southwest usa alive for its energy needs.
Racist Hillary as a young intern helped Barry Goldwater draft this law.

Thanks, Louise

factcheck.org

Read more:

Louise Benally was censored by Indian Country Today as the US attacked Iraq. Louise compared the U.S. 

.war in Iraq to the forced genocidal march of her people, her family, and their imprisonment at Fort Sumner.

Indian Country Today refused to publish this article that I wrote as a staff writer.

http://bsnorrell.tripod.com/id78.html

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Dineh and Apache children imprisoned at Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, N.M.

BLACK MESA Impoundments Threatened: Human Rights Observers, Sheepherders Requested June 2017

JUNE 2017 Urgent call for volunteer sheepherders at Black Mesa New impoundment threats issued Over this past week, law enforcement and Hopi land management officers entered Sovereign Dineh Nation territories at Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona with orders to count Dineh livestock. They issues 5-day notices to Dineh families, threatening to impound so-called "trespassing" sheep, goats, and cattle. "In times like these it's hard for me to eat or sleep," stated elder matriarch Glenna Begay. "I lay up at night worried for my animals. The sheep are my children. The horses too are relatives. They have been with us since the beginning." Families and elders resisting forced relocation policies on their ancestral homelands are urgently requesting volunteers to assist with maintaining the daily struggle. This primarily involves herding sheep throughout the day and doing basic chores. In this time of escalated police activity, supporters are also asked to be observant and record police or government actions. Livestock-related harassment by law enforcement is an annual occurrence that families resisting federal relocation policies endure, however, harassment and livestock impoundments have intensified in recent years. Armed officers conducted raids against families in 2014 and 2016.  These actions serve as painful reminders of the long history of US genocidal campaigns against the Dineh people. Public Law 93-531, the Navajo-Hopi Resettlement Act of 1974 remains in effect, despite four decades of indigenous resistance and international petition for repeal. It has always been clear to the Dineh people of Big Mountain/Black Mesa that the relocation policy is not about a so-called Navajo-Hopi Land dispute, but rather, is about natural resource development. Peabody Coal has been "carving out Mother Earth's organs" since 1966 on northern Black Mesa. "When we first walked on Black Mesa, there was abundance of life," explains elder matriarch Rena Babbitt Lane. "This land was never meant to be mined for coal. The Holy People walked here. But the coal company took the water and gave us sickness. That is what Washington gave us back, sickness." Today, relocation is administered through Ordinance 43, which among other atrocities, authorizes US Bureau of Indian Affairs deputized officers from the Hopi Office of Range and Land Management to enforce harsh and alien grazing controls on Dineh families refusing to relocate.  Animals considered to be trespassing are impounded, large fees are charged, and animals may never be allowed to return. Dineh families depend on their livestock for subsistence and the continuation of their traditional lifeway. Earlier this year, the majority owner of the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station announced it would be closing the plant by 2019. A closure of the generating station would also mean closure of Peabody's Kayenta Mine at Black Mesa. As revenue-hungry government officials seek ways to keep the generation station and mine operating, Dineh residents of Black Mesa continue to voice their support for a final and complete shutdown of coal operations. By taking care of livestock and chores at homesites, volunteer sheepherders can support elders and families' participation in meetings and demonstrations. At this time we, the international communities beyond the natural boundaries of Dineh territory, are being asked to do something bigger than ourselves. Many families are urgently requesting your support. Please consider a journey to Big Mountain/ Black Mesa to be a sheepherder and human rights observer, whether for a week or a month. To offer to volunteer your time, or with questions, please contact: blackmesais@gmail.com / 928-773-8086 or Jake: 937-479-4214 If you haven't come out to the land before, please read and fill out the cultural sensitivity guide and preparedness form: https://supportblackmesa.org/2008/10/cultural-sensitivity-preparedness-guidebook-registration-form/ Other related announcements: * Dineh Grandmothers to Speak in Los Angeles A delegation of Diné grandmothers from Big Mountain/Black Mesa will be visiting the LA area from July 20-August 2, bringing their traditionally-made handwoven rugs and jewelry. There will be 2-3 events where the LA community will be able to purchase these items, connect with the grandmothers and learn how to stand in solidarity with their resistance to coal mining and cultural genocide. To find out more about this tour please visit http://www.sonela.org or e-mail Tanya at wemoonwitch@gmail.com. * Funds needed to finish house for Big Mountain relocation resister Creighton Dailey, who grew up nearby on the Navajo Nation in Pinon, is renovating an old stone cabin with his grassroots group Carpenters for a Cause, which will be the primary residence for a lifelong relocation resister at Big Mountain. Additional funds are needed to complete this project, please donate if you are able: https://www.gofundme.com/CFAC3 * Funds requested to repair Black Mesa elder's solar system A group of supporters is helping Black Mesa elder Rena Babbit-Lane and her family to raise the $3000 needed to purchase a new bank of batteries for their photovoltaic solar power system. For more information, and to donate, visit: https://www.blackmesautility.com/ For more background on the Big Mountain/Black Mesa struggle: http://supportblackmesa.org/ http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-fight-to-protect-altar-black-mesa.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZ7pPNISyc For more information on the closure of the Navajo Generating Station: https://www.navajoenergyfuture.org/ Copyright © 2017 Black Mesa Indigenous Support, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have expressed interest in the work of BMIS. Our mailing address is: Black Mesa Indigenous Support P.O. Box 23501 Flagstaff, AZ 86002

'Mining and Resistance in Dinetah' Laura Flanders Show

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Devastation and resistance: Peabody Coal and Dineh relocation on Black Mesa. 

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The Laura Flanders Show

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Published on Jul 7, 2016

A special episode-length documentary filmed on location in Dinétah; the name of the land of the Navajo people, spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. 21 Billion tons of coal, the largest deposit in the US with an estimated value of 100 billion dollars, lay untouched in Dinétah until 1966. In that year, Peabody Coal Company leased the land in an agreement with a Hopi tribal council they helped form. In 1974, Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, commonly known as “the relocation law." It divided about 2 million acres of land previously shared between Diné and Hopi tribes. Nearly overnight, the homes of tens of thousands of Diné and several hundred Hopi were now illegal.

Since then, an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Diné people have been forcibly relocated. Today, only a small group of mostly elder Diné continue to live here, and those that remain are being pressured to leave. More than 40% of homes here lack running water. Peabody Energy’s two mines here have extracted over 400 million tons of coal and depleted 70 percent of an ancient desert aquifer. Peabody’s Kayenta coal mine fuels the Navajo Generating Station, which is owned by the US Department of the Interior and provides water and electricity to Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. What is the cost, paid in the lives of the Navajo people, of the water and power delivered to these cities? On the anniversary of the founding of the United States, we visit with Diné (Navajo) youth and elders coming together to fight for the survival of their culture, fighting against displacement caused by US government policy, as well as exploitation caused by mining and other polluting industries.

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Tribute: Navajo, Hopi and Lakota took on Peabody Coal, New York 2001

Roberta Blackgoat
Flagstaff Arizona protest
of Peabody water slurry
Photo Brenda Norrell (c)

Navajo, Hopi and Lakota delegation warned Lehman Brothers of consequences of mining sacred Black Mesa

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News copyright
French translation by Christine Prat at:

http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3378

The following article is being republished following Peabody Coal's bankruptcy this week.

In 2001, a delegation of Navajo, Hopi and Lakota stood united before Peabody Coal stockholders in New York and challenged the corporate monster.

Most of the delegation are now in the Spirit World. Arlene Hamilton bought two stocks in Peabody Coal in order for the delegation to address the stockholders. As a result, Arlene said her life was threatened. She died in a car accident. Roberta Blackgoat, known around the world for resisting relocation, died during the time of Hamilton’s memorial. Leonard Benally, longtime resistor with his sister and brother Louise and John Benally on Big Mountain, and Arlene’s husband, died of illness.

Those who stood together in New York included Hopi and Lakota elders.

NEW YORK -- A delegation of Navajo, Hopi and Lakota warned Lehman

Brothers stockholders of the dire consequences of their actions in

2001. In a rare move, censored by most media, the Navajo, Hopi and

Lakota delegation warned Lehman Brothers, after it acquired the

financial interests of Peabody Coal, of the spiritual consequences of

mining coal on sacred Black Mesa and the aftermath of Peabody Coal's

machinations that led to the so-called Navajo Hopi Land Dispute.

Later, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy.

Navajos Demand Just Transition after Peabody Coal's Bankruptcy

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Peabody’s Declaration of Bankruptcy is 'No Surprise'

Navajo Tribal Members Demand Just Transition to a Sustainable Economy

By Black Mesa Water Coalition

Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat at:

http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3385

NAVAJO NATION, Ariz. -- The nation's largest coal company, Peabody Energy Corporation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday's the coal industry grapples with the fallout of low natural gas prices and the increased enforcement of federal regulations. Peabody has ownership stakes in 26 mines in Australia and the U.S. including the Kayenta Mine located in the Black Mesa region of the Navajo Nation. This declaration of bankruptcy has many Navajo communities asking what this means in terms of Peabody's responsibility to workers, health care and the clean up the region’s land and water, and transition its economy.

It’s telling to witness the various Navajo responses to Peabody’s bankruptcy filing,” said Jihan Gearon, Executive Director of the Navajo non-profit Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC). “Some people are celebrating it as an indicator of the potential shutdown of the Kayenta Mine and an end to the coal complex’s contamination of the environment and people’s health. Others are worried about the potential loss of jobs and impact to the Navajo Nation’s economy. Yet everyone is calling for a commitment from Peabody and government leaders to meet its obligation to clean up and to support a just transition to a new economy.”