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Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts

July 1, 2025

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 

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."

September 23, 2024

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


'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended'

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News



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.

June 28, 2024

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.

May 31, 2024

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.

October 4, 2023

Statement of Family of Jacob Johns on Shooting


Jacob Johns photo courtesy family


Statement from Family of Indigenous Activist, Jacob Johns, Shot Last Week at Peaceful Prayer Circle

Contact:
Sabrina Chapa Sabrina@tiestolatierra.org
Anthony Diaz Anthony@newarkwatercoalition.org
https://therednation.org/statement-from-family-of-indigenous-activist-jacob-johns-on-shooting/

For generations, Indigenous Peoples have faced harm, death, and systemic oppression. Last week’s premeditated shooting is just another historical event in a series of systemic injustices in Indigenous history. This intentional premeditated act of violence was perpetrated against a peaceful prayer camp located at the proposed site for the reinstallation of the Oñate statue. This draws attention to the lengthy history of injustices against Indigenous Peoples by dehumanizing systems and divisive ideologies the community was protesting.

El Salvador Statement of Solidarity: Oñate was Bloodthirsty Conquistador


Prayerful gathering in Espanola, NM, where Jacob Johns was shot.



 

September 30, 2023

Arrest Warrant Reveals Details of Hate Crime at Onate Statue Prayerful Protest

Ryan Martinez with the weapon. Detail of photo by Albuquerque Journal.

Arrest Warrant Reveals Details of Hate Crime at Onate Statue Prayerful Protest

The Red Nation's statement: Shooter's gun jammed, planned to shoot others

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News


ESPANOLA, New Mexico -- The arrest warrant for the man who shot Jacob Johns, Hopi and Akimel O'odham, reveals details of the attempted murder of the peacemaker at the prayerful protest of the rededication of the Juan de Onate statue.

The shooter aimed his gun at a second person before fleeing, driving in the wrong lane south toward Pojoajue Pueblo during the chase.

Earlier in the day the shooter made racist comments to the children at the shrine during his actions to disrupt the gathering.

Ryan Martinez shown wearing MAGA cap at gathering.
Witnesses said he was searching for security camercas
when this photo was taken at the event.

Ryan David Martinez, the shooter, was wearing a Make America Great Again, MAGA, red cap. After his arrest, Martinez laughed when shown a photo of him holding the gun that fired the shot.

December 14, 2022

WASHINGTON: Greater Chaco Protectors Rally Congress for Environmental Justice



Greater Chaco Advocates Travel from New Mexico to call on Congress for environmental justice for Greater Chaco

D.C. Premiere of Our Story: The Indigenous-Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

Delegation Statement
Censored News
Translated into French for Censored News
by Christine Prat

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A delegation of Indigenous community leaders and Greater Chaco protectors traveled from New Mexico to Washington D.C. to lobby members of Congress for Greater Chaco protections, and premiere a film screening of the award-winning Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco (film trailer) which showcases the threats the Greater Chaco Landscape and its communities face from continued oil and gas leasing and drilling.

September 14, 2022

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. 

September 1, 2021

Navajo Nation reports uncontrolled spread in 36 communities, as coronavirus spreads through schools


Bitahnii Wilson at K'e Native Action is among the Dine' volunteers who raises his own funds and delivers life-saving water and food. This week, after receiving calls for help from fellow Dine', Bitahnni delivered food and water to elderly. The Navajo Nation government received $2.5 billion in federal virus relief funds -- from the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan -- but the Navajo government has not allocated or distributed the majority of the relief funds.

Navajo Nation reports uncontrolled spread in 36 communities, as coronavirus spreads through schools

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
September 1, 2021

The Navajo Nation said there is uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in 36 communities on the nation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The State of New Mexico, which provides a daily list, shows the virus spread is increasing in Navajo area schools in San Juan County schools in Bloomfield, Farmington and Aztec, New Mexico.

July 16, 2021

New Mexico: Reckless U.S. Government's Nuclear Industry Left Trail of Cancer for Navajos and Hispanics


Shattered remains

The fight to right the injustices of Trinity

Hidden Genocide -- Genocide in Canada is now confirmed with the location of widespread hidden graves of children who were kidnapped and incarcerated in residential schools. Survivors describe the murder of children.
In the U.S., the widespread deaths resulting from the U.S. government's reckless nuclear industry is genocide often hidden from history.
Nuclear energy left a trail of cancer deaths with the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Trinity in south-central New Mexico. The largest radioactive spill was at Church Rock, New Mexico, leaving a trail of death for Dine' (Navajos.) This radiation now flows west in the Rio Puerco wash toward Flagstaff, Arizona.
The targeting of Native communities went further in New Mexico and Arizona, as Navajo and Pueblo were sent to their deaths in the uranium mines without protective clothing. The radioactive dust covered their food, and the grass for livestock; miners brought the death dust home to their families on their clothing.
This reckless genocide was repeated at uranium mines in Native communities in Cove and elsewhere on the Navajo Nation, in Acoma and Laguna Pueblos, and throughout the west.
As far away as Canada, uranium mining left behind a trail of cancer deaths for Dene.
The recklessness of the U.S. government left behind a trail of cancer for Western Shoshone in Nevada from atomic bomb detonations. The U.S. continues this nuclear recklessness by pursuing Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste dumping. There is no safe way to store nuclear waste.
John Redhouse, Dine', was among the first Dine' to rise up in the defense of land and water rights in modern times.

June 30, 2021

Pueblo of Zuni Letter to President Biden July 1, 2021



Val R. Panteah Sr.
Governor PUEBLO OF ZUNI
P. 0. Box 339
Carleton R. Bowekaty Zuni, New Mexico 87327
01 July 2021

Mr. President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

The Pueblo of Zuni thanks the Biden and Harris Administration and the Office of Management and Budget (0MB) for the opportunity to provide productive, and hopefully long-lasting, input on material changes that are necessary to meaningfully and effectively advance equity and support by the government for underserved communities. We particularly seek to provide comments that address how opportunities in select governmental policies, regulations, and guidance can affirmatively and equitably be applied and programmatically operationalized to both address and provide solutions to some of the most intensive underlying causes of systemic inequities in American society for the A:shiwi, the Zuni people. 

December 28, 2020

July 31, 2020

The White House distributed contaminated coronavirus test kits, involving a secretive purchase





The White House distributed contaminated masks following a secretive purchase deal, reports Vanity Fair, exposing the role of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. This comes as Native women in Minnesota protest Ivanka Trump, saying she is attempting to co-opt the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's movement in a political ploy.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Photo: Coronavirus testing on Navajo Nation

The White House distributed contaminated coronavirus test kits from China, purchased through a secretive deal with the United Arab Emirates embassy, Vanity Fair reports.

July 3, 2019

Appeals Court Blocks Trump's Border Wall in Arizona and New Mexico in National Emergency Challenge


Our friend the Sonoran Pronghorn on the
Arizona Border, whose migration route is now targeted by Trump's Border Wall.
The real national emergency is that the homeland of Indigenous People and wildlife is threatened by a xenophobic president. -- Censored News
July 3, 2019

CONTACT: Virginia Cramer
virginia.cramer@sierraclub.org
CourtneyBourgoin
courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Border Wall in National Emergency Challenge

The Appeals Court decision includes halting Trump's priority plan for a border wall at Organ Pipe National Monument, near the western side of the Tohono Oodham Nation, on the Arizona border

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court today denied the government’s attempt to begin construction of President Trump’s border wall using funds unauthorized by Congress. The ruling upholds an earlier district court order that blocks the administration from building wall sections along the southern border in New Mexico and Arizona using illegally diverted military funds.

March 17, 2019

TAOS Buck Johnston descends drill rig in ceremony, arrested


Update Monday: Buck was released from jail.

Taos Water Guardian Buck Johnston descended from atop a drilling rig on Sunday and completed his Four Day Ceremony in Prayer. In handcuffs, Buck smoked the Sacred Pipe.
Buck's sister Lyla June Johnston describes how his courageous action was done with love. A crowd cheered as he came down the drilling rig, after he spent four days and nights strapped atop the rig in the cold.
Watch Lyla's video report which includes how Taos aquifers are now threatened:

Lyla writes:


March 16, 2019

Taos Water Protector is On Top of Drilling Rig -- and He's Live!

Buck Johnston is on top of a drilling rig near Taos, New Mexico, in defense of the water. Buck is broadcasting live and plans to stay 4 days. Watch: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100026931670155
Update Friday morning -- Buck survived the blizzard Thursday night. His bro, a fellow Warrior, climbed up the drilling rig to bring him a phone charger.
"That's the kind of action I'm trying to inspire," Buck said, a top the drilling rig on ancestral Pueblo land, in the pristine region now known as Taos.
Watch: https://m.facebook.com/FreeTaosPueblo/
Update Saturday: Buck remains atop the rig, after they cut away his hammock in the cold. Buck remains strapped to the rig in a Four Day Ceremony. Listen to report:
,https://m.facebook.com/story/graphql_permalink/?graphql_id=UzpfSTU3ODU5Mjc3NTpWSzoxMDE1NjE5OTEwOTU4Nzc3Ng%3D%3D
Update Monday: Buck has been released from jail and is with his family.



March 15, 2019

Taos Water Guardian Remains Atop Drill Rig

Defending Sacred Water, Protecting the Deep Aquifer

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Buck Johnston remained on top of a drilling rig near Taos, New Mexico, as a tipi went up on Friday in the prayer camp below him. A fellow Warrior climbed up the rig to bring Buck a cellphone charger and was arrested when he came down Friday.
The rig operator threatened to drop the rig with Buck on it and endanger his life. However, the women intervened and said they would rush the rig if this happened, and negotiated.
As of now, Friday night, Buck is continuing his commitment to remain until Sunday. Follow Buck's live broadcasts from on top the rig:
https://m.facebook.com/buck.johnston.31?tsid=0.0005563442174054689&source=result


Photo by Gera Brown

Below: Buck's words

Buck Johnston screen capture Censored News
Top photos via Facebook.