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July 14, 2024

Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters


Rachana Sam At on behalf of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Caucus points out that Indigenous Peoples can not participate in this process unless approved by a non-governmental organization, and this must change for there to be enhanced participation. Photo AIPC.

Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous youths spoke with courage and eloquence, calling out the environmental racism and genocide carried out by governments around the world. In response, government representatives rushed to deny the human rights abuses, and in some cases, used insulting language to criticize Indigenous Peoples who exposed their abuses, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The representative of France denied the government is responsible for genocide in New Caledonia. Azerbaijan denied responsibility for genocide in Armenia and used derogatory accusations, describing speakers as frauds and part of a "smear campaign." 

The United States government failed to describe the ongoing seizure of Native ancestral lands for lithium and copper mines, and fake green energy projects targeting ceremonial places.

The Russian Federation government criticized speakers on Thursday. Responding to speakers statements, he said their status needs to be examined. He claimed some had lost touch with their communities, and some were funded by former colonial powers. He also said one organization presenting a statement was not recognized in Russia.

"We need to exclude the participation of chauvinists and racists," the Russian Federation government representative said.

October 16, 2022

PARIS, FRANCE -- International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples Oct. 16, 2022

Now in Paris. Photo courtesy CSIA

Kathy Peltier, Dine' and Lakota, youngest daughter of imprisoned Leonard Peltier is in Paris speaking
to supporters who are urging a release for Peltier.

Free Peltier action underway in Europe
Tribute to the prisoners of 530 years of resistance in the Americas (Leonard Peltier – Dakota Sioux / Anishinaabe, prisoners of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magon and Miguel Peralta - Mazateco, Fidencio Aldama – Yaqui, Mapuche prisoners of Wallmapu - Chile / Argentina) 
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PARIS, FRANCE -- International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples Oct. 16, 2022

By CSIA Nitassinan
Censored News
https://www.csia-nitassinan.org/spip.php?article1239

As part of the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations and the First Year of the UNESCO International Decade of Native Languages (2022 - 2032) CSIA is hosting the International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Program on October 16, 2022.

May 29, 2019

Zapatistas Global Resistance Begins May 31, 2019: Stop Militarization in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca




Zapatistas Global Resistance Begins May 31, 2019: Stop Militarization in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca 

"Unite to protect the Strongholds," said Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, in response to today's announcement. Rivas testified in May on the militarization of her homelands in both the US and Mexico, and the criminalization of Indigenous Peoples, at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Jamaica.

by Ñaní Pinto
CNI_CIG
Censored News
May 29, 2019

On May 9, several collectives, organizations, adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona and networks of support of the Indigenous Council of Government (CIG) met to agree on actions against the increase of the military presence and paramilitary in Zapatista territories.
These groups also spoke out against the recent increase in aggressions that include the assassination of members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), particularly in the state of Guerrero and Oaxaca.
For these reasons, the organizations agreed to hold a Global Action on May 31 against militarization in Zapatista territory and in defense of the land, territory and autonomy of the indigenous peoples and communities of the CIG-CNI.

October 26, 2017

Nataanii Means in Paris 'Learning to Be a Human Being at Standing Rock'


Nataanii Means Photo by Christine Prat in Paris

Words of Nataanii Means in Paris
Recorded and transcribed by Christine Prat in Paris
Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4243

PARIS -- Nataanii Means was one of the speakers during the 37th Annual Day of Solidarity with Indians of the Americas organized by the CSIA-nitassinan. He talked about his experience in Standing Rock, during the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, commented on the documentary “Rise," by Michelle Latimer, produced by Viceland.
After presenting himself, as Lakota, Omaha and Dineh, and thanked the people in the audience for having taken time from their Saturday in order to be there, Nataanii talked about what he had been going through last year.
"For the past two years, the CSIA has brought me out to perform, to speak, and last year I was living at the camps, I was living in a Teepee with my friend Tyler, in the Camp Red Warrior. I took time to fly over here and then I went back. The tension had grown a lot and I ended up being arrested, on November 27th. It was the day we called ‘The Treaty Camp Raid’. I think our initial charges were a felony charge and three misdemeanor.
Just watching that film brought back a lot of memories, a lot of good memories, a lot of bad memories, a lot of regret, a lot of pain, and a lot of anger.
You know, a lot of us, we gave up a lot to go out there and our whole lives changed after that. The film was very beautiful, the pictures are very beautiful, of my people, and I don’t want you to keep that in your head as how we are all the time. Because we come from very hard circumstances. Our biggest fight, our whole fight, was with each other. I have to tell you straight away, because we fought each other hard.
And it was really a struggle to even go on, like to physically stop the pipeline, we were fighting eternally just to do that. Because a lot of people in the camps did not respect the diversity of tactics. 
A lot of people gained a lot of things from this fight, you know, as far as eagle boots, as far as money... For me, I gained a lot of regret. I was just talking to Tara [Houska], right there, we were watching the end of that video... F--k that, man! It ends so badly! And all those veterans coming, it did not help anything. From the beginning of the camps - you have to understand - our people have been oppressed for so long, that we have just not gained the knowledge and the just understanding of what matriarchy is. But ideas of patriarchy are so implemented into older people, they have suffered through the system, it has just been in them, for generations. It was really hard to work in that camp because of those ideas of patriarchy, they kind of reign supreme, even though we were trying to stay true to ourselves.
Myself and a few of my friends, we stayed through the winter, after we were ended, we stayed three months after that. And that’s when we’ve really seen the corruption of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe [council], of IRA [Indian Reorganization Act] governments. We’ve seen how those veterans showed up, ended up infiltrating into certain groups and dividing the people. Later on we found out that those infiltrating groups were bringing drugs in. And the winter was really hard, one of the hardest we’d been through, we got four blizzards. And that’s when I learned how to be, it was one of the hardest times of my life. It was how I learned to be a human being, I think.
Because we had to care for each other, we had to watch out for each other. It was not about any kind of groups in the camp, it was about who is living there. And it was about not freezing to death. And that kind of detoured us from thinking about the pipeline. During that time, the work was presumably halted. But they were drilling underneath the river the whole time they were not supposed to be working. We did not have the numbers, we did not have the support, and we did not have the energy to even carry out any kind of action to stop the drilling.
I tell you the story because I thought it would help, but I don’t want to keep these guys [other speakers] waiting because I tell a long story. I tell you the story on this one:
There is one point in February when with Witko and Tufawon, we got back from a trip [to call banks to disinvestment], and our friends Yazz and Sage, and a few other people said “we have an idea”. They had this paper, it was divided in three sections and one said ‘weeks’, the other said ‘months’ and the other said ‘years’. I said ‘what is this?’ And they told me ‘if you had to do time, how much do you wanna do, to stop this pipeline?’ I just looked at it and I thought ‘no time’. We were suffering of severe paranoia, and we were tired all the time, and it was cold, and there are a lot of things that are not seen on camera: we fought the cops many times on the bridge, the National Guard... and by that time we got arrested most of the time, so I looked at that paper and I said ‘years’.
And that’s not to brag, that’s not to be seen as this much of a warrior, I don’t think of myself as a warrior. I mean, I would have preferred it to be weeks, but I looked at it, ‘if I want to do this, it is when I want to sacrifice’. And it was only me and Sage that picked years. And each category had a role to play in our plan, Anyway, they had a women gathering a couple of days after that, a few of my aunts came to share wisdom with those young women and they got some power in camps, it was really good to see. When I say ‘my aunts’, it’s Madonna Thunderhawk and Marbella Philips.
They were part of that women’s camp. We went to them with the plans to ask their advice, because those women were at Wounded Knee in 1973 and since that tie they’ve done so much work for the movement. So I asked them what they thought. And they told me ‘you’re too young, we don’t need you in prison yet. There are already enough of us in prison’. And it confused me. I did not know how to feel about that.
And they really did not want us to do it. So we listened to them. For we value them, we value their opinions, their wisdom. So we did not go through with the plan, we went through with another one, which did not even work. The cops had finally found out about it. That’s the end of February, that’s when they closed the camps. And they had done drilling in March. But ever since that decision, everyday I think about that.
What remain is torment and regret. I don’t think we won. I think we lost, we lost our fight. And I know about losing fights!
I don’t know what the answer is, I don’t want to pretend to know what the answers are. I know what I have to do as an indigenous young man. I am honored to be up here, with these people, I am honored to be here with you and I am honored to represent my Nation, and I just came to the realization a while ago, that we’re gonna have to fight every single day in our life and that’s something I don’t expect you to understand, I don’t think you will understand it, but that’s what we do, that’s who we are.
And I think that balances my torment, because I am so proud to be this person I am, so proud to have my ancestors running through my veins. So I am going to honor them the best way I can, every single day of my life.
And I’ll continue to fight, whether that be through music, through art, through court systems, through frontline work, for community development or with the youth.
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Copyright Nataanii Means, Christine Prat, Censored News
No potion may be reproduced without permission of Nataanii Means

February 4, 2016

Leonard Peltier to receive Frantz Fanon Award in France


Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier to be honored with Frantz Fanon Award for Revolutionary Thinking

By Christine Prat
Censored News
English, French and Dutch

PARIS -- The Frantz Fanon Foundation is awarding the Frantz Fanon Prize to Leonard Peltier. The prize, which honors revolutionary thinkers and their service to mankind, will be presented to Lenny Foster, Diné, a member of the American Indian Movement, and an advisor to Peltier. Foster will accept the award on behalf of Peltier, who remains incarcerated in the United States.

The award will be presented by Frantz Fanon’s daughter on March 6, 2016.
Frantz Fanon

The prize was awarded to Peltier based on a proposal from the network, Reseau ‘Sortir du Colonialisme.' The Support Committee for American Indians, CSIA, worked in support of the proposal to recognize Peltier with the award.

Peltier's supporters, pressing for clemency for Peltier, hope the prize will attract the attention of President Obama. Earlier, Obama voiced his admiration for Fanon.

Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary thinker from Martinique, was a psychiatrist and worked in a hospital in Algiers during the Algerian Uprising (1954-1962.) He sided with the Algerians. Fanon's most famous book is ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. He died very young of leukemia before the end of the Algerian War, in 1961. He has always been a major symbol of anti-colonialism and resistance of Indigenous People.

More info on Leonard Peltier: http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
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French translation below by Christine Prat, thank you from Censored News

LEONARD PELTIER: 40 ANS D’INCARCERATION. IL RECEVRA LE PRIX DE LA FONDATION FRANTZ FANON

On February 6, 2016, in Leonard Peltier, by Chris P
6 février 2016 [In English, Zie Nederlandse vertaling]
PosterPeltier40yrsLEONARD PELTIER ENTRE AUJOURD’HUI DANS SA 40ème ANNEE D’INCARCERATION. Il fut accusé d’avoir tué deux agents du FBI, cependant il a été démontré depuis longtemps – et admis par la Justice – qu’il ne pouvait pas être le tireur. Les autorités ont cependant toujours refusé de rouvrir le dossier, prétendant que s’il n’était pas l’auteur des coups de feu, il devait être complice! Aucun Président n’a accepté de le grâcier jusqu’à maintenant.
Il est actuellement très malade et ne reçoit pas les soins nécessaires.
LA FONDATION FRANTZ FANON A DECIDE DE LUI ATTRIBUER LE PRIX FRANTZ FANON CETTE ANNÉE. Le prix sera remis au cours du Salon Anticolonial organisé à la Bellevilloise, dans le cadre de la Semaine Anticoloniale, initiée par le Réseau ‘Sortir du Colonialisme’.
Ce prix peut se révéler très important car les soutiens de Leonard Peltier pensent qu’une grâce de Barak Obama est la dernière chance de faire libérer Leonard, et Obama a dit avoir été très inspiré par Frantz Fanon.
Frantz Fanon est né en 1925 à Fort-de-France, Martinique. Il était psychiatre et a travaillé dans un hôpital d’Alger pendant la guerre d’Algérie. Il devint membre du FLN (Front de Libération Nationale Algérien). Il a toujours soutenu les opprimés et combattu le racisme et le colonialisme. Il mourut en 1961 de leucémie. Depuis, il a toujours été considéré comme un symbole de la lutte contre le colonialisme et l’oppression. Son ouvrage le plus connu est “Les Damnés de la Terre”.
Depuis 2011, la Fondation Frantz Fanon décerne son prix a une personne ayant mené une action exemplaire contre le racisme, la discrimination et la xénophobie, la domination et le colonialisme. Cette année le prix sera décerné le 6 mars au cours du Salon Anticolonial, en présence de la fille de Frantz Fanon. Lenny Foster, Navajo, membre de l’AIM et proche de Leonard Peltier, recevra le prix au nom de Leonard.
Christine Prat
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Dutch translation below by Alice Holemans, NAIS, thank you from Censored News!
http://www.denaisgazet.be/free-leonard-peltier/frantz-fanon-foundation-prijs-voor-leonard-peltier-parijs

* Frantz Fanon Foundation prijs voor Leonard Peltier- Parijs

Parijs- De Frantz Fanon Foundation kent de Frantz Fanon prijs toe aan Leonard Peltier.
De prijs die een eerbetoon is aan revolutionaire denkers in dienst van de mensheid, zal op 6 februari 2016, verjaardag van Leonard’ s 40 jarige onrechtmatige opsluiting overhandigt worden aan Lenny Foster, Dine’, lid van de American Indian Movement (AIM), en spirituele raadgever van Peltier.
De prijs zal overhandigd worden door de dochter van Frantz Manon.
Het steuncomité voor Amerikaanse indianen (CSIA) en andere organisaties in Frankrijk hadden de Frantz Fanon Foundation opgeroepen om Peltier te erkennen.
Peltier activisten hopen dat de prijs onder de aandacht van Obama komt. Obama heeft zijn bewondering voor Frantz Fanon vroeger reeds geuit.

Frantz Fanon, een revolutionaire denker uit Martinique, was een psychiater en werkzaam in een hospitaal in Algiers tijdens de Algerijnse opstand (1954-1962.) Hij koos de kant van de Algerijnen. Zijn bekendste boek is “The Wretched of the Earth”.
Hij stierf zeer jong aan de gevolgen van Leukemie, nog voor het einde van de Algerijnse oorlog, in 1961. Hij is altijd een belangrijk symbool geweest van anti- kolonialisme en het verzet van inheemse volken.
Leonard-Peltier-Courtesy-Jeffry-Scott_EDIIMA20140911_0203_6.jpg


-- Christine Prat in France

Copyright Christine Prat, Censored News

December 15, 2014

Paris Auction selling Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Plains Sacred Items


Klee Benally confronts auctioneer Alan Leroy in Paris

UPDATE TODAY, MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2014

Navajos Buy Back Artifacts at Paris Auction

Navajo officials spent several hundred thousand euros to buy back seven tribal masks at an auction Monday in Paris a sale that went ahead despite efforts by the U.S. government to stop it.
The objects for sale at the Drouot auction house included masks believed to have been used in Navajo wintertime healing ceremonies, as well as Hopi artifacts. Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim says they are not art but a part of tribal identity, and shouldn't be traded commercially.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris asked Drouot to suspend the sale to allow Navajo and Hopi representatives to determine where they came from.
Drouout refused, arguing that there's nothing illegal about the sales.
Jim, a medicine man who traveled to Paris for the auction with other Navajo officials, said they were unable to determine the origin of the masks.
So the Navajo Nation representatives bid for seven masks at the auction and won.
Jim described them as "living and breathing beings," saying they "were not constructed for decorating homes or to hang in art galleries."
French art collector Armand Hui initially triggered a bidding war on several masks, but later told The AP that he "backed down" when he saw that the tribe wanted to buy them back. "I wanted to respect that," he said.
The Associated Press is not transmitting images of the objects because the Hopi have long kept the items out of public view and consider it sacrilegious for any images of the objects to appear.
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Censored News original
Paris auction continues fifth year of cultural genocide selling Kachinas, Masks, and other Sacred Items

By Brenda Norrell
French by Christine Prat
Dutch by Alice Holemans NAIS
German by Selina Berger


The EVE Auction in Paris is again selling sacred items of Pueblos, Dine' and the Plains, continuing an act of cultural genocide for the fifth year. 
Despite protests, the Eve auction plans to sell sacred Native American ceremonial items on Dec. 15, 2014.
Sacred Kachinas and Masks of Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque and other Pueblos are in the Eve auction catalog online. 
There are also Dine' (Navajo) Ceremonial Yeibeichei Masks. 
Sacred items of the Kiowa and pouches belonging to Cheyenne Arapaho, Sioux and Plains Indians are also slated to be auctioned off. Leggings of Sioux and Cheyenne, and a rare item belonging to the Hupa in California, are slated to be auctioned.
The ceremonial items include many Hopi Kachinas and Zuni Pueblo Shalako Ceremonial items. Most of the dates of the ceremonial items are listed as 1900 -- 1930, but there is also a shell necklace listed as pre-Hopi, or Anasazi. 
There are 275 items listed for auction on 110 pages, including items belonging to Mandan, Chippewa, Blackfeet and Natives in Canada. Sculptures and other items are listed from the Inuit in Alaska, Mayans in Oaxaca, and others from Costa Rica.
The EVE catalog online boasts that it is selling "Pre-Colombian Art." (Please be advised that this link is posted as evidence. The photographing of sacred items is reprehensible:)
In June, Klee Benally, Dine', challenged the auction and genocide denial in Paris, as an auction of Hopi and Dine' (Navajo) sacred items was underway.
"Eve perpetuates cultural genocide each time an auction of indigenous history and identity occurs. We can only assume that these sacred indigenous properties are stolen or attained through duplicity without free prior or informed consent," Benally and others said in a statement.
"Eve must immediately enter into meaningful consultation with impacted indigenous nations regarding any and all past and future auctions of sacred cultural properties and work to immediately return all such sacred cultural properties."
At that time, he EVE Auction in Paris continued the auction of Hopi and Navajo sacred items for the fourth year on June 27, 2014. 
A video provided to Censored News from Paris reveals the genocide denier responsible for auctioning off sacred items of Hopi and Navajo.
In the video, Alan Leroy rips the posters from the wall, Klee Benally, Dine', tells the profiteer he is committing genocide.
Benally challenges the auctions.
Responding with racism and hostility, Leroy tells Benally, "You were never killed by anybody."
Benally says the items were stolen. "The burden of proof is on you. You are committing cultural genocide."
Benally says these cultural items would never be sold. He points out that the traditional medicine people say these items must be returned.
"We are not killing anybody," Leroy said. Further, Leroy insults Navajos.
"All cultural properties are up for sale in all religions," says Leroy.
Benally said, "These things were stolen, they were not sold."
Benally delivered the following letter to the Eve Auction in Paris.
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Eve Auction Paris: Cease Auctioning Indigenous Sacred Cultural Property
To whom it may concern,
Eve must immediately cease auctioning any and all indigenous sacred cultural property.
Eve perpetuates cultural genocide each time an auction of indigenous history and identity occurs. We can only assume that these sacred indigenous properties are stolen or attained through duplicity without free prior or informed consent.
Eve must immediately enter into meaningful consultation with impacted indigenous nations regarding any and all past and future auctions of sacred cultural properties and work to immediately return all such sacred cultural properties.
Eve must also remove any and all published pictures in digital format or print of such sacred cultural properties, specifically those names as "masks."
Auctions of this nature would not be acceptable were it of sacred cultural properties from the Vatican, Mecca, or any other established religious or cultural ways of life.
Further, these auctions create a market for indigenous sacred cultural property which further endangers our threatened ways of life.
These auctions of cultural genocide must stop now!
Signed,
Klee Benally, Diné - Flagstaff, Arizona and Forest Lake Chapter
Sylvain Duez-Alesandrini - CSIA - Nitassinan www.csia-nitassinan.org
Idle No More France
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Supporters who were present in Paris, sent this report to Censored News:
Master Alan Leroy denies the genocide of Native Americans – there is a French law against genocide denial – he claims that the masks he sells were made for tourists – which means that he is cheating on his customers, as objects made for tourists are sold at tourist shops, not at auctions – he claims that the Hopi have to thank the White invaders for bringing medical knowledge to them – the demonstrators replied that they first brought the deadly diseases, we could add that they are destroying the land where Native Americans used to pick their healing plants, and the air they breathe, etc.
Klee Benally, who was very shocked to hear about another scandalous sale of sacred artifacts (the 4th in a year), moreover including Diné (Navajo) objects, this time, decided to go to the office of the firm EVE (9 rue Milton, 75009, Paris), to deliver a letter of protest.
A small group of people – from Idle No More France and CSIA, among others – decided to join him. When we arrived in the street, the very few protesters were standing at a corner, at some distance of the office. A young man who had decided to support the action told us that he had tried to go into the office, as an individual asking for information, but that the young woman in charge had forbidden him to get in and locked the door. Shortly after, she came out for her lunch break and stopped to tell the protesters that she had been extremely intimidated and scared by that young man (who died his hair red and did not have the look of her usual customers, but was not intimidating in anyway – See the video), obviously trying to prepare for a law suit.
Then she called her boss, Master Alan Leroy, to inform him of the situation. In between, the protesters started to stick posters on the windows of the office. Then Master Leroy himself arrived, tore the posters, shouting that it was damaging his building (they were just stuck with tape and he could tear them without any effort). Klee tried to explain to him that he just wanted to deliver a letter and discuss the matter peacefully. But Mr. Leroy started with denying the genocide of Native Americans, claimed that the artifacts had been sold by the Natives themselves, although he did not have a document proving it, but claimed that ‘everybody knew that Native Americans never had papers’! He claimed that nobody had any right to challenge his rights to sell sacred objects, as ‘all the courts have ruled for the 4th time that the sale was legal’.
As a matter of fact, ‘all the courts’ are the court of the neighborhood, with that one Madame Judge who has no knowledge what so ever of Native Americans and just believes that Constitutions protect private property and the right to trade.
Mr. Leroy also referred abundantly to the right of private property, guaranteed by French and American Law. He also claimed that those artifacts were preserved thanks to white collectors (suggesting that Natives are not able to preserve their inheritance) and that they would not exist anymore if they had not been sold to while people. Then, at a point, he claimed that the masks were not sacred but had been made specially for tourists, which amounts to admit that he is cheating on his customers, as they certainly don’t go to an auction to buy tourist junk.
The Eve Auction catalogue of sacred items is online. Please be advised that this link is posted as evidence. The photographing of sacred items is reprehensible: http://www.auctioneve.com/flash/index.jsp?id=20332&idCp=101&lng=fr

French translation by Christine Prat, thank you!
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2593
En juin 2014, déjà, la firme EVE avait scandalisé les Autochtones d’Amérique du Nord en vendant aux enchères des objets sacrés qui n’auraient jamais dû sortir des tribus auxquelles ils appartenaient. Le 2 juillet 2014, Klee Benally, Navajo, des représentants d’Idle No More France et du CSIA-nitassinan, s’étaient rendu au siège de la firme pour tenter – vainement – de faire comprendre au responsable la gravité de ces actes. La firme EVE récidive, moins de six mois plus tard. Une vente aux enchères doit avoir lieu le 15 décembre prochain.
En juin dernier, le New York Times avait publié un article contre la vente et l’Ambassade des Etats-Unis avait protesté officiellement. Cependant, et comme d’habitude, le tribunal du 9ème arrondissement avait décidé en faveur des vendeurs, au nom de la sainte ‘liberté du commerce’.
Nous avons appris récemment qu’EVE allait à nouveau vendre des objets Autochtones venant de l’Alaska au sud du Mexique.
Ci-dessous un extrait de l’article de Brenda Norrell, publié sur Censored News le 3 décembre 2014. (Le reste de l’article reproduit celui de juillet dernier, que l’on peut voir en français sur ce site).
Christine Prat
Vous pouvez protester en envoyant des messages à EVE :
Eve :
contact@auctioneve.com 
+33 (0)1 53 34 04 04


UNE VENTE AUX ENCHÈRES A PARIS PERPETUE CINQ ANS DE GENOCIDE CULTUREL PAR LA VENTE D’OBJETS SACRES
Par Brenda Norrell
Censored News
3 décembre 2014
La firme EVE de Paris vend des objets sacrés Pueblos, Diné [Navajo] et Indiens des Plaines, perpétuant ainsi un acte de génocide culturel pour la cinquième année. Le catalogue d’EVE montre des Kachinas sacrées et des masques Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque et autres Pueblos. Il y a aussi des masques de cérémonie Yeibeichei Diné (Navajo).
Il y a également un objet sacré Kiowa sur la liste des enchères et des objets Cérémoniels Shalako des Pueblo Zuni. La plupart des objets cérémoniels sont datés, d’après la liste, de 1900 à 1930, mais il y a aussi un collier de coquillage indiqué comme pré-Hopi ou Anasazi.
Le catalogue d’EVE présente 275 objets sur 110 pages, certains appartenant aux Mandan, Chippewa, Blackfeet et à des Autochtones du Canada. Il y a des sculptures et autres objets des Inuit d’Alaska, des Mayas de Oaxaca (Mexique) et d’autres du Costa Rica.
Le catalogue en ligne d’EVE se vante de vendre de l’ ‘Art Pré-Colombien’. (L’article de Censored News indique le lien vers le catalogue comme preuve à charge. Il est interdit de photographier ou montrer les objets sacrés).




Dutch translation by Alice Holemans NAIS, thank you!
* VEILINGHUIS IN PARIJS VERKOOPT SACRALE ITEMS VAN HOPI, PUEBLO, NAVAJO EN PLAINS
Door Brenda Norrell, Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Vertaald door NAIS, met toelating van Brenda Norrell- De NAIS Gazet: www.denaisgazet.be
Veilinghuis in Parijs gaat verder met zijn culturele genocide. Voor het vijfde jaar op een rij worden Kachinas, maskers, en andere sacrale items verkocht.

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Op de EVE veiling in Parijs worden opnieuw sacrale voorwerpen van Pueblos, Dine’ en de Plains geveild, hiermee gaan ze voor het vijfde jaar door met culturele genocide.
Ondanks de protesten zal op 15 december 2014 de verkoop doorgaan van sacrale Kachinas en maskers van Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque en andere Pueblos.
In de online catalogus vinden we ook ceremoniële Yeibeichei Masks van de Dine’ (Navajo).
Sacrale voorwerpen van de Kiowa en buidels die horen bij de Cheyenne Arapaho, Sioux en Plains indianen zijn ook voorzien om geveild te worden.
Verder staan er nog leggings van Sioux en Cheyenne, en een zeldzaam voorwerp van de Hupa in California ook op de lijst voor de veiling.
Onder de ceremoniële voorwerpen bevinden zich vele Hopi Kachinas en Zuni Pueblo Shalako ceremoniële voorwerpen.
De meeste ceremoniële voorwerpen zijn gedateerd tussen 1900 en 1930, maar er is ook een ketting van schelpen die gedateerd is als pre- Hopi, of Anasazi.
Op 110 pagina’s staan 275 items, waaronder ook voorwerpen die aan de Mandan, Chippewa, Blackfeet en Natives van Canada horen.
Beelden en andere voorwerpen van de Inuit , Alaska, de Maya’s in Oaxaca, en anderen van Costa Rica.
In de EVE catalogus online gaat men er prat op dat men “Pre- Colombiaanse” kunst verkoop (Let wel: deze link is gepost als bewijs. Fotograferen van sacrale voorwerpen is verwerpelijk dus, foto’s niet kopiëren en/of delen,aub!)

In Juni ll. , toen een veiling van Hopi en Dine’(Navajo) sacrale voorwerpen in voorbereiding was, heeftKlee Benally, Dine’ de veiling en het ontkennen van de genocide in Parijs aangevochten.
“ Eve vereeuwigd de culturele genocide iedere keer opnieuw wanneer een veiling van inheemse geschiedenis en identiteit plaatsheeft. We kunnen aannemen dat deze sacrale inheemse eigendommen gestolen werden of bekomen werden door huichelarij zonder voorafgaande toestemming,” zegt Benally en anderen in een verklaring.
“ EVE moet onmiddellijk de betrokken inheemse naties consulteren over alle, verleden en toekomstige veilingen van sacrale eigendommen en alles in het werk te stellen om dergelijke sacrale culturele eigendommen terug te geven.”

Op 27 juni 2014 verkocht EVE voor het vierde jaar Hopi en Navajo sacrale voorwerpen.
Een video die in het bezit kwam van Censored News maakt de ontkenning van de genocide duidelijk.
In de video, scheurt veilingmeester Alan Leroy de posters van de muur, Klee Benally zegt aan de woekeraar dat hij genocide pleegt.
Met duidelijk racistische en vijandige gevoelens zegt Leroy tegen Benally:” Jullie werden door niemand gedood.”
Benally zei dat al die voorwerpen gestolen werden en
dat deze culturele items nooit verkocht werden. Hij wijst erop dat de medicijn- mensen zeggen dat de voorwerpen moeten terugkomen.
Leroy ging verder: “Alle culturele eigendommen van alle religies zijn te koop.”
Benally : “Deze zaken werden niet verkocht, maar gestolen.”

 Benally schreef volgende letter naar het Eve veilinghuis in Parijs.
Eve Auction Paris: Stop met de verkoop van inheemse sacrale culturele eigendommen.
Aan al wie het aanbelangt.
EVE moet onmiddellijk ophouden met het veilen van alle inheemse en sacrale eigendom.
Eve vereeuwigd de culturele genocide iedere keer opnieuw wanneer een veiling van inheemse geschiedenis en identiteit plaatsheeft. We kunnen aannemen dat deze sacrale inheemse eigendommen gestolen werden of bekomen werden door huichelarij zonder voorafgaande toestemming.
EVE moet ook alle gepubliceerde afbeeldingen van de voorwerpen, hetzij digitaal of gedrukt, verwijderen, vooral van die zij ‘maskers’ noemen.
Veilingen van deze aard zouden niet aanvaardbaar zijn indien het sacrale culturele eigendom was van het Vaticaan , Mecca, of iedere andere gevestigde religie of culturele levenswijze.
Verder creëren deze veilingen een markt voor inheemse sacraal culturele voorwerpen die onze reeds bedreigde levenswijze nog meer in gevaar zullen brengen.
Deze veilingen van culturele genocide moet nu stoppen!
Getekend,
Klee Benally, Diné - Flagstaff, Arizona and Forest Lake Chapter
Sylvain Duez-Alesandrini - CSIA - Nitassinan www.csia-nitassinan.org
Idle No More France

Sympathisanten die aanwezig waren in Parijs zonden dit rapport naar Censored News:
Veilingmeester Alan Leroy ontkent de genocide van Native Amerikanen- er is een Franse wet tegen het ontkennen van genocide- hij beweert dat de maskers die hij verkoopt ,gemaakt waren voor toeristen- wat betekent dat hij zijn klanten bedriegt, want voorwerpen gemaakt voor toeristen worden verkocht in toeristenwinkels en niet op veilingen- hij zegt dat de Hopi de blanke invallers dankbaar moeten zijn omdat zij hun medische kennis naar hen gebracht te hebben- de demonstranten antwoorden daarop dat zij eerst hun dodelijke ziekten gebracht hadden, het land waar de Native Amerikanen hun genezingsplanten kweekten verwoest en de lucht die zij inademden verpest hebben.
Klee Benally die erg aangedaan was toen hij hoorde over de schandalige verkoop van sacrale artefacten, waaronder Navajo, voorwerpen besloot naar het bureel van de EVE firma te gaan (9 rue Milton,75009, Paris), om een protestbrief af te geven.
Een kleine groep van o.a. Idle No More France en CSIA- besloten om hem te vervoegen.
Toen wij in de straat arriveerden, stond er een kleine groep sympathisanten aan de hoek van de straat, op een kleine afstand van het bureau.
Een jonge man vertelde dat hij alleen binnengegaan was om informatie te vragen, maar de jonge vrouw die de leiding had weigerde hem toegang en deed de deur op slot.
Toen zij even later buitenkwam tijdens het lunchuur, sprak ze onmiddellijk de demonstranten aan, hen zeggende dat die jonge man haar uitermate geïntimideerd had en dat ze zo bang van hem was.(de jonge man had rood geverfd haar en zag er niet uit als een van haar gewone klant). Het was duidelijk dat zij zich aan ’t voorbereiden waren ingeval het tot een rechtszaak zou komen.
Toen riep zij haar baas, veilingmeester Alan Leroy, om hem op de hoogte te brengen.
Ondertussen begonnen de demonstranten posters op de ramen te plakken. Dan arriveerde de veilingmeester zelf, scheurde de posters, roepend dat dit beschadiging van gebouwen was ( zij waren enkel maar met tape vastgeplakt en konden zonder moeite verwijderd worden).
Klee probeerde hem aan het verstand te brengen dat hij enkel maar een brief wou afgeven en de zaak vreedzaam bespreken. Maar Mr.Leroy begon met de genocide van Native Amerikanen te ontkennen, beweerde dat de artefacten door de natives zelf verkocht werden, ondanks dat hij daarvan geen documenten kan voorleggen die dit bewijzen, maar zei dat “iedereen weet dat Native Amerikanen nooit papieren gehad hebben!”
Hij ging verder met te zeggen dat niemand het recht heeft om zijn recht tot verkopen van sacrale voorwerpen te betwisten daar “alle rechtbanken voor de 4° keer geoordeeld hebben dat de verkoop legaal was”!
Met alle rechtbanken bedoelde hij natuurlijk de nabije rechtbank waar Madame Rechter, die geen clou heeft over wat er dan ook speelt bij de Native Amerikanen en er steevast in gelooft dat de grondwet alleen maar private eigendom en het recht om handel te drijven beschermt.
Mr.Leroy sleurde er meermaals het recht op privacy, verzekerd door de Franse en Amerikaanse wetgeving bij.
Hij ging nog verder met te zeggen dat deze artefacten nog steeds bestaan dankzij de blanke verzamelaars (daarbij suggererend dat Native Amerikanen niet in staat zijn om hun erfdeel te bewaren) en dat zij niet langer zouden bestaan indien ze niet verkocht zouden geweest zijn aan de blanken.
Dan beweerde hij dat de maskers niet sacraal waren maar dat ze speciaal voor toeristen gemaakt werden, waarbij hij dus toegeeft dat hij zijn klanten bedriegt, daar waar zij vast niet naar een veiling komen om toeristenrommel te kopen.
In the news
Read more about the auction of the sacred in Paris and court rulings at New York Times:

German translation by Selina Berger

Klee Benally, Dineh (Navajo)
MONTAG - Die Auktion in Paris verkaufen wieder zeremonielle Gegenstände von Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo und Lakhota, 
und:
Klee Benally konfrontiert Auktionator Alan Leroy in Paris
Die Auktion in Paris verkauft seit 5 Jahren aus den kulturellen Völkermord Kachinas, Masken und andere Gegenstände
von Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Frankreich
Holland

Die EVE Auktion in Paris verkauft wieder heilige Gegenstände der Pueblos, Diné und den Plain Indianer, fortsetzend den Akt eines kulturellen Völkermord seit 5 Jahren.
Trotz Proteste plant die Eve Auktion am 15. Dezember 2014 heilige zeremonielle Gegenstände von den Native Americans zu verkaufen. 
Heilige Kachinas und Masken der Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque und andere Pueblos sind im Eve Auktions-Katalog online.
Es befinden sich auch zeremonelle Diné (Navajo) Yeibeichei Masken darunter.
Andere heilige Gegenständen von den Kiowa und Beutel die den Cheyenne Arapaho, Sioux udn Plains-Indianer gehören sind für die Versteigerung geplant. Desweiteren sind Leggins der Sioux und Cheyenne und seltene Gegenstände die den Hupa in Kalifornien gehören zur Versteigerung geplant. 

Die zeremoniellen Gegenstände schließen viele Hopi Kachinas und Zuni Pueblo Shalako Ritualgegenstände mit ein. Die meisten der Daten der zeremoniellen Gegenstände sind gelistet aus dem Jahr 1900 -- 1930, aber es gibt auch eine Muschel Halskette von den Prä-Hopi, oder Anasazi die gelistet ist. 
Es gibt 275 aufgelistete Gegenstände auf 110 Seiten, welche auch Gegenstände beinhalten die den Mandan, Chippewa, Blackfeet und Natives in Kanada gehören. Desweiteren sind Skulpturen und andere Gegenstände sind von den Inuit in Alaska, Mayas in Oaxaca und andere von Costa Rica aufgeführt.
Der EVE Katalog online behaupten dass sie "Pre-kolumbische Kunst" verkaufen. (Bitte beachten Sie, dass dieser Link als Beweis veröffentlicht wird. Das Fotographieren der heiligen Gegenstände ist verwerflich)
http://www.auctioneve.com/flash/index.jsp?id=20992&idCp=101&lng=fr

Klee Benally, Dené, forderte die Auktion und Leugnung dieses Völkermords heraus als die Auktion von heiligen Hopi und Diné (Navajo) Gegenstände im Gange war.
"EVE hält den kulturellen Völkermord jedesmal aufrecht jedesmal wenn eine Auktion von indigener Geschichte und Identität abgehalten wird. Wir können nur vermuten dass diese heiligen indigenen Eigentümer gestohlen wurden oder durch Falschheit ohne Einverständniserklärung in ihren Besitz gekommen ist." äußerte sich Benally und andere.

"EVE muss unverzüglich in eine aussagekräftige Rücksprache mit den geschädigten indigenen Nationen treten in Bezug nehmend auf jede und alle vergangen und zukünftigen Auktionen von heiligen kulturellem Eigentum um mit ihnen an eine sofortige Rückgabe all dieser heiligen kulturellen Eigentum zu arbeiten."
In dieser Zeit wiederholte die EVE Auktion in Paris das 5.te Jahr am 27.Juni 2014 iihre Auktionen mit heiligen Gegenständen der Hopi und Navajo. 
Ein Video von Paris welches Censored News bereitgestellt wurde, zeigt die Leugnung des Völkermord der verantwortlich ist für die Versteigerung der heiligen Gegenstände der Hopi und Diné (Navajo). 

In dem Video reißt Alan Leroy die Poster von der Wand und Klee Benally, Diné sagt dem Profitjäger dass er damit Völkermord begeht. 
Benally fordert die Auktion heraus.
Als Reaktion folgte Rassismus und Feindseligkeit von Seiten Leroy cer Benally sagt "Sie wurden nie von jemandem umgebracht."
Benally erwiderte dass die Gegenstände gestohlen wurden. "Die Beweislast liegt bei Ihnen. Sie begehen hier kulturellen Völkermord"
Benally sagt ihm dass diese kulturellen Gegenstände würden von ihnen niemals verkauft werden. Er wies darauf hin, dass die traditionellen Medizinmänner diese Gegenstände zurückfordern.
"Wir bringen niemanden um," sagte Leroy. Dann beleidigte er die Navajos.
"Alle kulturellen Eigentümer sind werden in allen Religionen verkauft," sagte Leroy.
Benally antwortet, "Diese Gegenstände wurden gestohlen..sie wurden nicht verkauft."
Benally überreichte den folgenden Brief and die EVE Auktion in Paris.

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EVE Auktion Paris: Unterlassung der Versteigerung von indigenen heiligen kulturellem Eigentum
An denjenigen der sich verantwortlich fühlt
EVE muss sofort die Versteigerung von allen indigenen heiligen kulturellen Eigentum unterlassen.
EVE fördert den kulturellen Völkermord jedesmal wenn eine Auktion von indigener Geschichte und Identität fortgesetzt wird. 
Wir können nur vermuten dass diese heiligen indigenen Eigentümer gestohlen wurden oder durch Falschheit ohne Einverständniserklärung in ihren Besitz gekommen ist.
EVE muss unverzüglich in eine aussagekräftige Rücksprache mit den geschädigten indigenen Nationen treten in Bezug nehmend auf jede und alle vergangen und zukünftigen Auktionen von heiligen kulturellem Eigentum um mit ihnen an eine sofortige Rückgabe all dieser heiligen kulturellen Eigentum zu arbeiten.
Auch muss EVE sämtliche veröffentlichte Bilder im digitalem Format oder Druck des heiligen kulturellen Eigentums..insbesondere diese Namen "Masken."
Auktionen dieser Art würden auch nicht akzeptiert werden wenn es heilige Kulturgüter vom Vatikan, Mecca, oder anderen etablierten religiösen oder kulturellen Lebensformen wären.
Außerdem eröffnen diese Auktionen einen Markt für indigenes heiliges kulturelles Eigentum welches unseren Weg des Lebens bedroht.
Diese Auktion von kulturellem Völkermord muss jetzt enden!
Unterzeichnet,
Klee Benally, Diné - Flagstaff, Arizona und Forest Lake Chapter
Sylvain Duez-Alesandrini - CSIA - Nitassinan www.csia-nitassinan.org
Idle No More France
In the news
Read more about the auction of the sacred in Paris and court rulings at New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/design/sale-of-hopi-religious-items-continues-despite-us-embassys-efforts.html?_r=0