PYRAMID LAKE -- Sharing 55 years in the Red Power Movement, John Redhouse Launches New Book on Bordertown Racism

Carol Wright, Western Shoshone, and John Redhouse, Dine' and Ute, share the history of the resistance movement spanning 55 years today, with Melanie Yazzie, Dine', of the Red Nation.

Pyramid Lake -- John Redhouse Launches New Book on Bordertown Racism

"There is no compromise, no surrender," John said of coal mining. "Leave it in the ground."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 1, 2025

First in our three-part series

Watch on Red Nation YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLArgo31AKY

PYRAMID LAKE NATION -- "I love my people," says John Redhouse, Dine and Ute, as he describes growing up in Farmington, New Mexico, and the resistance to racism in the bordertown.

John launched his new book today in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s.

"Today is a dream come true."

Dine' John Redhouse's new book: A rare history of bordertown racism

 

Photo The Red Nation 2016

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 20, 2025

John Redhouse's new book documents the horrific tragedies, and racism in the bordertown of Farmington, and it gives a detailed history of the resistance movement in the 1970s.

During the march against the Gallup Ceremonial, John writes, "NIYC Executive Director Gerald Wilkinson (Cherokee) spoke for all when he said, “We were not meant to be tourist attractions for the master race.”

It is rare history, seldom written or told, as in the days following the murder of Larry Casuse in Gallup. John writes, "On the other side, there were some poorly disguised agent provocateurs—posing as instant Indian revolutionaries—who tried to recruit us to 'avenge' the death of Larry Casuse. Although it had a certain appeal, we had never seen any of them before and we didn’t trust them. It was obviously a COINTELPRO styled setup and we weren’t going to play into their hands." 

And John shares the rich history of the KIVA Club at UNM in Albuquerque. "On a nomination from Zuni Pueblo-Navajo student activist Marley Shebala, I got elected to the Kiva Club Council (also known as Kiva Klub Kouncil or KKK) and began using the Native American Studies Center and its significant resources as a base for continuing my activist work."

Alongside John were so many who have passed to the Spirit World, like the soft-spoken Larry Emerson of Shiprock.

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.

Red Media Press and Common Notions announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest during the 1970s.

“With extraordinary detail, precision, and humor, Redhouse testifies to the will and spirit of a movement at a pivotal time when there was no ‘I can’t,’ only ‘we must.’ Bordertown Clashes offers a roadmap for contemporary Red Power activists who must confront the present tense of struggle with the fortitude and versatility of their predecessors.”
– The Red Nation

July 1-5, 2025
Book Launch and Tour with author John Redhouse:

Join Red Media with author John Redhouse in person or online

July 1, 2025 – Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Book talk and livestream at the Pyramid Lake Tribe Museum

July 3, 2025 – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Books on the Bosque bookstore

July 4, 2025 – Farmington, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Inspired Moments Event Center

July 5, 2025 – Gallup, New Mexico
Book sale and author meet & greet at the Gallup Flea Market

The Red Nation Podcast is proud to provide live-streaming for the book launch tour.

Find links to the book, livestream, and event pages on the Red Media website:
https://www.redmedia.press/events/

Pre-order, ships in July

https://www.commonnotions.org/bordertown-clashes?srsltid=AfmBOorPN3oN78D_aKM07Nz7XQDNIt_BsGktAH1oJXK-aEBuegNi8Fgj

'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended' Live on Saturday

'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended'

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Watch on YouTube

Live: Chili Yazzie thanked everyone for coming today to honor the victims and their families of Dine' tortured and murdered in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico.

Lunch is being served, as the live broadcast ends. Workshops are planned for the afternoon, and tents are set up outside as healing centers, at the Totah Theater in downtown Farmington, now, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

The Keeswood family, the Sun Eagle Singers, is now singing an honor song, "for everyone to heal today."

Remembering and honoring Dodge Benally, 34, John Earl Harvey, 39, and David Ignacio, 52, tortured and murdered by white teenagers in the Chokecherry Massacres in 1974.

Australians Rush to Mine Lithium in Hualapai's Sacred Place, a Navajo Enterprise is Leading the Desecration

 

Australians Rush to Mine Lithium in Hualapai's Sacred Place, and a Navajo Enterprise is Leading the Desecration

Update:
The Bureau of Land Management approved the Big Sandy lithium project in the area of Hualapai's Ceremonial Place in June. The so-called 'Navajo Transitional Energy Company,' a Navajo Nation enterprise is carrying out the drilling operation for an Australian mining company. This is the latest attack on sacred places by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's BLM. It is another fake green project destroying ceremonial places for lithium for batteries, under the name of green energy for profits for an Australian corporation.
BLM approves lithium mine on June 6, 2024 
https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-approves-lithium-exploration-project-arizona

 Ha’Kamwe’

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 11, 2024

Translated into French by Christine Prat

SYDNEY, Australia -- While sipping wine at the Sydney Opera House, investors hear how much money they can make mining lithium in Arizona. The enthusiastic project manager is excited to tell them that Arizona loves mining, as can be seen with all its copper mines.

"They are a mining friendly state," says Paul Lloyd, managing director at Arizona Lithium, owned by Hawkstone Energy, in Perth, Australia.

"They are very pro-lithium production."

On the other side of the world, Hualapai are offering prayers at their sacred spring, Ha’Kamwe’ their sacred place for healing and rites of passage, including childbirth and coming-of-age ceremonies for young women. It has been their ceremonial place since time immemorial.

Not far away, in Farmington, New Mexico -- a bordertown with a long history of crimes against Native Americans -- a new epicenter of fake green energy projects emerges.

Diné John Redhouse 'Fifty Years Ago: Uprising and Resistance'

Farmington 1974

Diné John Redhouse 'Fifty Years Ago: Uprising and Resistance'

By John Redhouse, Censored News May 24, 2024

On this Memorial Day weekend, we must also remember and honor the many native human rights warriors such as Larry Casuse and other brave indigenous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the lives and future of red people and nations on Turtle Island and throughout the Western Hemisphere—the red quarter of Mother Earth.

In the course of our long, hard, and bloody struggle for survival, since 1492, we are here only because our ancestors fought for our right to live and exist as first people and nations in the Americas.

Poisonous Green: Navajo Nation freight rail scam follows atomic bomb industry heading energy transition for Four Corners

Photo Courtesy Shiprock Chapter, Navajo Nation

The freight rail proposal presented in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation, on Tuesday, comes after the atomic bomb industry headed the new energy transition session in Farmington, New Mexico. The United States "clean energy economy" is on track to continue the use of the Four Corners as a sacrifice zone. -- Censored News

Four Corners Freight Rail Study Team Public Info Meeting

By Joseph Hernandez

Censored News

Sept. 14, 2022

NAVAJO NATION, SHIPROCK, New Mexico -- First, It was a good turnout in Shiprock and I want to thank everyone who provided public comments at this 3 hour public info meeting to inform the County, State, Federal and even our own Navajo officials that building a Freight rail is not heavily supported from people who live in the path of this proposed heavy load railroad. 

For this initial process San Juan County is the lead agency who was awarded a $2 million grant for a feasibility study. In yesterday's presentation there were no Navajo Nation officials to explain the MOU, memorandum of understanding, that was signed in February of 2020 by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer and Navajo Nation Attorney General Doreen N. McPaul. What was mentioned is that this “team” will be looking at designs, railroad alignment and right of way access. 

Flooding on Navajoland washes away elder's goats

Flooding, high price of hay, and poor roads devastating


Article and photos by Lester Begay
Censored News Exclusive

During this week's floods on the Navajo Nation, 80-year-old elder, Mrs. Begay, lost 29 goats and 11 survived, south of Farmington, N.M., on the Navajo Nation.

Her son, Andrew, 50 years old, tried to cross the flash flood wash which trapped the goats. The second wave of flash flood, as high as 4 to 6 feet, washed away all 40 goats and Andrew still manage to reach a few goats and pulled them ashore with a rope tied to him. At some point, he also was washed under the water and had to abandon his rescue mission after fighting the water. He was tired and the water was very cold.
Terry told me that she usually leaves her herd of goats inside during severe weather conditions but lately she could not afford the high hay price that skyrocketed in March 2011. So she had to let out the goats to graze.

A Navajo elder, 70-years-old, was stuck here (shown in photo 3) in the wash and slept there until Monday. This is a BIA/Navajo Dept. of Transportation road and bus route. It has been a public road for the past 50 years. Billions of dollars went by and we still have this kind of road on the Rez.


Also see Navajo Nation press statement on Friday:

"There are approximately 50 to 80 homes within the flash flood areas and many families are out of their homes. The Navajo Nation opened a shelter in Chinle with the help of the American Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter. Red Cross volunteers will provide meals, snacks, bottled water and coffee, as well as cots and blankets to flooding victims, however, more volunteers are needed in these communities. Navajo families with children are sleeping outside due to mud, rain, mold and infestation."
http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/News%20Releases/NNDOH/PSA%20Flash%20Flood%20Volunteers.pdf

Denver Post video: Flooding washes away town of Salina, in Sunshine Canyon, Colorado:

http://videocenter.denverpost.com/services/player/bcpid1149493358001?bckey=AQ~~%2CAAAAADe65VU~%2CG496cZ36A_UyJjxj4eEF2Fg5YE08WWhw&bctid=2671275786001