'Shoot and Run' -- New Documents Expose Abusers of Standing Rock Water Protectors. Now DAPL Peeps Want to Hide.

'Shoot and Run' -- New Documents Expose Abusers of Standing Rock Water Protectors. Now DAPL Peeps Want to Hide.

Naming Names -- Exposures Send Perpetrators Running

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Photo: Attack on Standing Rock 
Water Protectors, 2016

Newly-released e-mails confirm what Censored News exposed about the federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Now the lawmakers, police and military responsible for the permits, attacks and abuse that resulted in critical injuries to many protecting the water -- want to hide.

   -- Sinister Role of Two U.S. Presidents
The permitting process for Dakota Access pipeline began during the Obama administration, in the spring of 2014,  according to U.S. Dept of Energy records that Censored News discovered online and exposed.

That was just a few months before Obama visited Standing Rock in June of 2014.

Later in 2016, when Water Protectors were being shot with rubber bullets, fired on with tear gas, and imprisoned in dog cages with prisoner numbers written on their arms as was done by the Nazis -- Obama refused to halt the abuse.

Cheyenne River Lakota Chairman Harold Frazier urged Obama to halt the abuse, during a meeting in Los Angeles, but Obama refused to stop the abuse and refused to halt the pipeline construction. Instead, Obama went golfing and to a fundraiser dinner. Obama told a news reporter that he was waiting for things "to play out."

When Trump began his bizarre and crazed term, Trump endangered all forms of life and continued the sinister U.S. agenda in 2017, carrying out the genocidal policies of the U.S. government that places oil, profits, and payback to political donors, above human life and justice.
While Obama relied on public relations' spin to avoid detection, Trump didn't bother. Trump's agenda was, and is, destruction, agitation, distraction, confusion and abuse of the protectors.
   -- New Exposures Send Abusers Begging to Hide --
The Intercept and Will Parrish are exposing new information. Freedom of Information requests reveal the big players which enabled Dakota Access Pipeline to continue the abuse.
The Intercept also exposed earlier Heath Harmon of Three Affiliated Tribes, the undercover FBI agent who set up Red Fawn for arrest and imprisonment.
Unicorn Riot, on the frontlines and arrested at Standing Rock, documented the abuse by the United States.
New e-mails show the power of Unicorn Riot videos and make it clear why the media was targeted with arrest at Standing Rock.
Revealing the power of identifying the perpetrators who remain protected by the United States government -- the links for Censored News have been censored and blocked by Twitter since 2016.
The links have been blocked ever since Censored News posted photos and names of the dog handlers, security guards, undercover agents and off-duty police officers who carried out the attack using vicious dogs to attack Standing Rock Water Protectors in September of 2016.
Now, North Dakota is on the run.
North Dakota wants to keep documents and truth secret and hidden from the public.
The Intercept exposes how North Dakota seeks to restrict public records access after Standing Rock:
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/11/north-dakota-public-records-pipeline-protest/

Further, a General has been exposed.
At Huffington Post, read how a General turned oil lobbyist pushed through permits for Dakota Access Pipeline:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c619dfce4b0eec79b2668de?fbclid=IwAR2ZbbPF9gn3ffZ4tJyiLZ95j0Ks03ab7QaZ45mlowAmQybp6lOLkNF4vws

Documents in Standing Rock Sioux court case, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
.https://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Dam-and-Lake-Projects/Oil-and-Gas-Development/Dakota-Access-Pipeline/

And further, a Louisiana Sheriff is now being ordered to turn over records.
Lake Charles Sheriff Greg Champagne in southern Louisiana knew his area would benefit from the end of Dakota Access pipeline, with the Bayou Bridge pipeline.
Champagne was also President of the National Sheriff's Association in 2016, which lobbied Congress for militarized weapons and vehicles, and brought in Sheriff's Departments from across the nation to attack Standing Rock Water Protectors in 2016. The facts were exposed by DeSmog Blog in 2016.
The court recently ordered the records be turned over:
.https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_728d508c-0ac9-11e9-9088-2b20b15c9db9.amp.html

  Trump, mainstream media, dancing in abyss
Freedom of Information requests, court documents, live videos and investigative journalists are now heralds of justice, as the United States government plummets and mainstream media joins Trump, dancing in the abyss at the end of puppet strings.
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U.S. sniper on a hill at Standing Rock

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/04/sniper-on-hill-standing-rock-and.html?m=1

Copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Brenda Norrell, journalist in Indian Country for 36 years, began Censored News in 2006, after being censored and terminated as a longtime staff reporter at Indian Country Today. Norrell began serving as a reporter at Navajo Times, during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation, continuing as a stringer for AP and USA Today. Later, she traveled with the Zapatistas in Mexico and visited with Bolivian President Evo Morales in his mountain homeland. Today, she is blacklisted by mainstream media.

Israel's Black Cube spies hired to suppress news articles, as Israel gains U.S. border contracts

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O'odham opposed Trump's border wall in March, on O'odham land at the so-called border. Photo Ofelia Rivas, O'odham

Israel's Black Cube spies hired to suppress news articles, as Israel gains U.S. border contracts

Black Cube spies were hired to halt news stories, at the same time that Israeli companies are receiving U.S. border contracts -- including Elbit Systems' contract for spy towers on sacred land of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- and Trump's border wall prototype.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Israeli intelligence 'Black Cube,' is tracking journalists and trying to halt news articles in the U.S., writes Julian Assange on Twitter today, with a link to The New Yorker magazine's new exposures.
It is important to those who live on the US Mexico border, including the Tohono O'odham Nation, who are now facing the Apartheid Israeli contractors hired to build the spy towers by Homeland Security during the Obama Administration.
Now, Trump wants an Israeli firm to build his border wall.
"An Israeli company, Elta North America, (a subsidiary of the Israel Aerospace Industry) was one of eight companies awarded a massive sum to produce a prototype for the wall that the U.S. intends to build along the U.S.-Mexico border," Telesur reports.
Israel's contracts from U.S. Homeland Security, at the United States southern border, including the spy towers on sovereign Tohono O'odham land, are one of the most censored articles in the U.S. by the media.The exposures of Israeli intelligence Black Cube spies posing as friends, and attempting to halt news stories, was exposed by Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker.
Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He hired private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations, The New Yorker reports.
"One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press."
Assange said today, "Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents at Israeli intelligence company 'Black Cube' to infiltrate accusers & quash stories,"
Censored News continues to expose breaking news from the Tohono O'odham border, where U.S. contracts are being awarded to Israeli companies engaged in Apartheid in Palesine.

Israel’s Elbit Systems plans spy towers on sacred land at the border, where O'odham ancestors are buried.
Ofelia Rivas, O"odham, exposed Elbit Systems plans on Tohono O'odham land, and her home community's fight against the Israeli spy towers. Elbit is responsible for the genocidal security surrounding Palestine, and drones globally.
The Gu-Vo District opposed this proposal from the beginning, and the United States ruled it could care less.
Gu-Vo, in the western most district of the Tohono O'odham Nation, told the U.S., prior to the assessment, "The Gu-Vo District opposes these proposed tower sites to protect cultural sites on the holy mountain now called the Ajo Mountain Range. The mountain holds human remains of our people and also places of our cultural practices (medicine bundles) home and home of the ceremonial deer and bighorn sheep and mountain tortoises that are protected under the Endangered Species Act."
"The United States government military forces, the border patrol, have not been forthcoming with impact information, such as health effects and have deliberately misinformed the people regarding the immediate environmental impacts such as the roads they will build on the mountain and installation of electrical power lines to the sites as well as that these proposed tower sites will have a 25-year or longer impact on the mountain, the animal and plant life and the O'odham lives."
"The Gu-Vo District communities landscape have already been greatly impacted by numerous unauthorized roads and destruction of our mountains and hills of great significance to the O'odham way of life. Our future generations will face more restriction to live on our original lands as our rights as original Indigenous peoples continue to deteriorate."
"These U.S. proposed towers also are not on the border but in our communities and on the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation reiterating discrimination and deliberate attack on the O'odham," said Gu-Vo District.
Rivas, O'odham living on the border and founder of O'odham VOICE Against the Wall, describes the him'dag, way of life. "The O’odham way of life is based on the land that has held the remains of our ancestors since the creation of this world. The O’odham did not migrate from anywhere according to our oral history. Our creation tellings record our history and teach the O’odham principles of life. The survival of O’odham today is based in our him’dag." Read more at Ofelia Rivas' website http://tiamatpublications.com/

Article copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas

Read more:
The New Yorker: Harvey Weinsteins Army of Spies
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies

Secret recording reveals Dakota Access Pipeline stalled until spring, investors worried

Photos by Rob Wilson

Photos of Standing Rock Water Protectors Attacked by 

Militarized Police Protecting Private Pipeline

Secret recording reveals Dakota Access Pipeline stalled until spring, investors worried

Artilcle by Brenda Norrell

Censored News
Audio shared by Shaun King

A secret recording of a meeting which appears to be Energy Transfer Partners, reveals the Chief Operating Officer attempting to assure investors that Dakota Access Pipeline will be completed, but not on time. While blaming the Obama administration for delays, the speaker says this will change when Donald Trump takes office.

Although the authenticity of the secret recording can not be verified, and similar statements can be found in other places, the recording reveals that the delays are costing DAPL money and resulting in worried investors over the loss of profits.

The speaker says the pipeline is stalled, but when Donald Trump takes office as President, he is expected to issue the permit.

While stating that the pipeline drilling is not completed on federal land, and under Lake Oahe, the speaker says the project is expected to be finished in the spring.

The speaker says DAPL gained a monopoly on the pipeline because of its shipping contracts. The Dakota crude oil is bound for overseas markets, and not domestic use.

Shaun King said on Tuesday that he received this audio from a person who claimed to be in a corporate meeting about Energy Transfer Partners, the company in charge of building the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“It appears to be authentic," King said.

“I am told the person speaking here is Matthew Ramsey, the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Energy Transfer Partners, and that the recording was made earlier today," King said on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.
King said pay attention to what happens at 6:30 into the audio.
Election night changed everything," says the voice on the audio. "We're going through a transition where we will have a new President of the United States. And he gets it. We fully expect as soon as he is inaugurated his team is going to move to get the final approvals done and DAPL will cross the lake."
In Standing Rock in North Dakota, Native Americans and their supporters have been shot by rubber bullets, maced and pepper sprayed, blasted with water cannons in freezing temperatures, and attacked by vicious dogs of Dakota Access Pipeline security.
One young Native woman now risks losing her eye after being struck with a police projectile. Doctors are trying to save the arm of a young woman from New York struck with a concussion grenade during the peaceful blockade.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple and Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier have criminalized law enforcement and continue to recklessly endanger lives.
Over 550 water protectors have been arrested. A class action lawsuit has been filed against police for excessive force.
Many water protectors have been bloodied by rubber bullets and strip-searched and jailed in inhumane "dog kennels" by Morton County, with numbers written on their arms as was done by Nazis.
Native American elders were dragged from ceremonies and not provided sufficient food, water, and medicine in jail after being strip-searched.
Currently, hundreds of water protectors in Standing Rock Camps are bracing against blizzards and temperatures which will drop to minus 25 degrees this weekend.
Lives are placed at additional risk now because Morton County refuses to remove a concrete barricade on Highway 1806 which prevents ambulances and emergency vehicles from entering the Standing Rock Water Protector Camps.
The Missouri River is the water source of millions.
Listen below:

Chief Arvol Looking Horse to Obama -- Own your words, stop the pipeline

Chief Arvol Looking Horse

Cheyenne River Chairman receives little response from Obama in Los Angeles

Obama fails to respond, as front line warriors rush to face a convoy of police 

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

LOS ANGELES -- Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier said he did not get the response he hoped for during a meeting with President Obama today.

"I didn't really get the answers that I was hoping for, but I'm still optimistic we will prevail in stopping this pipeline," Chairman says in the video below.

Chairman Frazier said Obama agreed to continue working through the proper channels and agencies in the federal government.

Chairman Frazier urged everyone to stay strong. "We have to stay strong and keep up the fight."

"In the end, we will prevail."

"In the end, we will stop this pipeline."

Let's keep working," Chairman Frazier said.

In other news tonight, Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo spoke with Standing Rock water protectors.

During the gathering at the casino hotel, the water protectors received a message that a large convoy of police were enroute tonight.

The front line warriors, with the magnitude of Crazy Horse, in the Spirit of Crazy Horse, rushed from the talk room before Ruffalo spoke.

Mark Ruffalo spoke on how the forces want to divide people.

"The Black Snake is here."

Ruffalo spoke on the depth of suffering that the Native people have, and how it is what the world needs right now.

Ruffalo said he is humbled and honored to be here. He thanked the people for what they are teaching him and said he will be with the water protectors tomorrow, Wednesday.

DAPL is pressing to drill where the new Sacred Ground Camp is located on the path of the pipeline. Law enforcement special operations from Minnesota, Indiana and other states were seen enroute to Standing Rock.

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Watch below, during a panel discussion, including Actor Mark Ruffalo, at the Standing Rock casino hotel tonight, the call goes out for front line warriors.




Kelly King, who arranged the meeting between Chairman Frazier and Obama today, said in a statement earlier today:

Today Oct 25th, 2016 National Native Media and Consulting arranged and facilitated a meeting with President Barack Obama and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier to address the ongoing NoDAPL and treaty issues. This meeting is in conjunction with POTUS visit to Beverly Hills, CA.

To clarify the rumors that this is an intertribal meeting, National Native Media and Consulting reaffirms that this Obama meeting only has one tribal chairman in attendance, Chairman Harold Frazier.

National Native Media and Consulting is a 100 percent Native Owned Consulting Firm who have been in operation for over 16 years.

As the owner of National Native Media and Consulting stated, “If you don’t know who we are then you weren’t meant to know. If you do let us know what your issue is or what direction you would like to move your issue and we can facilitate a strategy that works.”

National Native Media and Consulting does not use social media or advertising to promote them selves. To better protect the interests of their clients, all projects are kept within their circle.

Cheyenne River Chairman to Obama: Stop Pipeline from Poisoning our Children's Water

Photo by Waniya Locke

Army Corps of Engineers violated Treaty rights, failed to consult

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

CANNON BALL, N.D. -- Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier sent a letter to President Obama today urging Obama to remember his promise to the Lakota people. Chairman Frazier points out the Army Corps of Engineers has ramrodded construction and permits through without the required consultation with Native American Tribes and has violated Treaty rights.

“You pledged to work with our Indian nations and tribes on a nation-to-nation basis to address the issues that matter to us every day.  You came to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, and quoted our great chief, Sitting Bull: “Let us put our minds together and see what we can do for our children.”  With all respect, we ask you to put your mind together with ours and see what we can do to protect our children’s lives and health from poison water.”

(Read full letter below.)

The Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux are sending buses of Lakotas to the blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, as the pipeline threatens the Missouri River and water source of the Lakotas. On Friday, Dustin Thompson, community members, confirmed burial places are in the vicinity of the pipeline crew.

Federal law protecting Native American burial places requires the work to halt.

On Friday, Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault and Councilman Dana Wasinzi were  arrested as they tried to protect their people from the heavily armed police and private security guards at the pipeline blockade. On Thursday, twelve people were arrested, including Dakota and Lakota women who were thrown around and arrested by police, the North Dakota Highway Patrol and Morton County Sheriff’s Deputies.

The Camp of the Sacred Stones is calling for more support and asking that peaceful protesters come today, Sunday, and bring camping gear, food, water and cooking supplies.

Although President Obama assured Native Americans that the tar sands pipeline through their lands had been halted, this new pipeline is part of a new pipeline system that goes all the way from the Alberta, Canada, tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico. The tar sands pipeline giant Enbridge in Calgary, along with Marathon, just bought into this new pipeline system, which includes Dakota Access Pipeline, and is now threatening land owners throughout the heart of the United States.

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August 14, 2016
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20500

Hon. Sally Jewell, Secretary
U.S. Department of the Interior
John_Blair@ios.doi.gov; Fax: 202-208-1821
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240

Re: STOP DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE FROM POISONING
OUR CHILDREN’S DRINKING WATER

Dear President Obama and Secretary Jewell:

You pledged to work with our Indian nations and tribes on a nation-to-nation basis to address the issues that matter to us every day.  You came to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, and quoted our great chief, Sitting Bull: “Let us put our minds together and see what we can do for our children.”  With all respect, we ask you to put your mind together with ours and see what we can do to protect our children’s lives and health from poison water.
Here is a quote from a youth submitted on social media captioning a picture of your visit to the Standing Rock Reservation, “This was the day that you promised to protect our people! This was the day you told our youth you would do whatever it takes to protect their future! Fulfill your promises and help us protect our water!”
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a 1,172 mile 30” diameter pipeline that will cross the Great Plains to transport 470,000 to 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day.  The DAPL is planned to cross the Missouri River above the confluence of the Cannonball River, a few steps from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.  DAPL threatens the safety and quality of our drinking water, and threatens to destroy the environment of our Sioux reservations along the Missouri River.
Under the 1868 Sioux Nation Treaty, the Oceti Sakowin of the Lakota, Nakota, Dakota Oyate or Great Sioux Nation reserved as our “permanent” home:  All the land from the Cannonball River in the North along the low water mark on the east bank of the Missouri River to the Nebraska Border and west to the Wyoming Border.  The Missouri River is wholly within our treaty territory, and over the years, the United States has asked us to cede hundreds of thousands of acres along the Missouri River within our homeland for flood control by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Our Sioux Nation tribes use the Missouri River for our drinking water, we have treaty rights to hunt and fish, reserved rights to graze livestock along its banks, and it is our source of water for irrigating crops. Under our Treaty, we own reserved waters in the Missouri River.  Yet, the Army Corps turned its back upon our Sioux Nation tribes and plans to approve the DAPL to run oil under the Missouri River without consulting with our tribal governments.  Indeed, the Army Corps has not even consulted with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture who are our partners in our Missouri River tribal drinking water projects.  The Army Corps is violating our treaty rights, statutory rights, and your policy on sustainable Indian nations, President Obama.
We have seen the devastation wrought by oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, where BP had build “fail safe” systems to run its oil platform.  BP’s systems failed catastrophically—despite their best planning.  We have seen government planners provide lead poisoned water to the residents of Flint, Michigan.  We have seen the EPA pour out poison mine waters into Colorado waters in the name of “clean-up,” only to poison Navajo Nation waters downstream.  
As the Lakota say, Mni Wiconi—“water is life.” The Army Corps must not risk our children’s lives with the dangerous DAPL project without even conducting an Environmental Impact Statement!
Among our Sioux Nation tribes, we sacrificed to protect American cities downstream on the Missouri River from flooding—sacrificed our sacred oak trees, our wildlife, our best river bottom lands, our very homes for flood control.  Do not let the Army Corps of Engineers sacrifice our people again.
President Obama, Secretary Jewell we call upon you to honor our treaty and trust responsibility, and help us protect our Missouri River, our drinking water, and our source of life from the DAPL and its danger of life threatening oil spills.  

Stop the Army Corps’ intended approval of the DAPL.

Sincerely,
Harold Frazier, Chairman
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

CC:  Hon. Larry Roberts, Assistant Sec’y—Indian Affairs (Acting)
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.   20240

Dine' Filmmaker Arlene Bowman to Obama: Racism and Sexism in Hollywood

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'With lack of diversity in the mainstream entertainment news talk, we again are not mentioned in the conversation even by the President of U.S.' -- Dine' Filmmaker Arlene Bowman

By Arlene Bowman
Dine' Filmmaker
Censored News
Copyright Arlene Bowman, Censored News
English and Dutch
February 12, 2016

President Barack Obama:

Hello I write a rebuttal to GQ news article, "President Obama Calls for TV Shows with Muslim Characters That Are Unrelated to National Security," written by Nicole Silverberg, February 3, 2016. Article is off setting.
First of all my intention is not to be rude on purpose, but to simply be honest to the point. Mr. President Barack Obama, I am a Dine' Indigenous independent filmmaker who graduated from U.C.L.A., M.F.A.-film production in 1986. Since I graduated in 1986, primarily I have been a filmmaker, but I like to create and perform other artistic pursuits as well.
Some aspirations have been realized in October-December 2015: screened Navajo Talking Picture and the Graffiti at Indigenous film-video festival, Forumn Doc.BH.2015 in Brasil; Here, There and In Between essay published in Without Borders Volume II catalog, showed still photographs in Pushing Boundaries exhibit and screened the Graffiti in Audit of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Us Indigenous people have lived in North America approximately 16,000 years or more, archaeology information, which is debatable by some Indigenous people who say we always lived here. We never immigrated, as the federal government and others who wish to ignore those facts that we lived here first before the immigrants came over.
Since U.S. was founded, the less information about our real histories the public knows, a manipulated history of how the federal government, past presidents of the U.S. removed us forcibly from our lands because the federal government wanted to "expand westward" the better. Also, who's land did the settlers settle or invade -- Indigenous land most likely.
I believe in the Doctrine of Discovery, how the U.S. utilized techniques to get rid of us. Robert Miller, Shawnee lawyer's book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny, explained it well. Not over yet to resist. Hasn't stopped yet to squash us; some examples, 1. Oak Flats land sacred to San Carlos Apache Reservation where a mining company wishes to mine, a McCain -- Arizona -- set up (I'm from Arizona!) 2. Manipulate behind closed doors to take away water rights from Dine' by lawyer Stanley Pollack hired by Dinè Nation, although Winters Doctrine exists to serve federal recognized tribes. No consultation with Dine' public.

In my return to U.S. I viewed during the second week in December on Netflix the Ridiculous Six co-written by Adam Sandler: whatta a hey! Monstrosity about stereotypes, sexist and racist of Indigenous and Mexican people. How our depictions have reversed -- forwards -- never advanced in Hollywood? However, I'm one among approximate 50 or 500 Indigenous filmmakers in the Americas. In Brasil I met and viewed more Indigenous filmmakers' work at the film video festival: positive. List of filmmakers I am aware of in U.S. and Canada are: Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, Gunargie O Sullivan, Darlene Nepoose, Ramona Emerson, Black Horse Lowe, Billy Luther, Randy Red Road, Chris Eyre, Sandra Osawa, Sterlin Harjo and others. Therefore, we have progressed a lot but does anyone know about us in the mainstream.

At least talk goes on that's not about lack of diversity in U.S. mainstream entertainment news, but concerning Indigenous women, our view is greatly consistently ignored on purpose, yet we've lived here longer than any immigrants who lived in U.S. and Canada. Marlon Brando an actor, plus a good actor in the early 70's for a white guy, was the first to raise questions in a straight forward intelligent way about racism and stereotypes of people of color, especially Indigenous people in mainstream film and television whom I will never forget. How many famous white people speak up for Indigenous in mainstream film and television; also, get trashed when speaking up. His celebrity promoted Native American fishing rights in Washington, which eventually ruled in favor of Native American fishing rights, the Boldt Decision, George H. Boldt, 1970, U.S. Supreme Court.

Censored News provides a new platform for Indigenous news and writers. In the late 60's, American Indian Movement happened, Black Panthers, women and others. Beyonce's music video refers to Black Panthers. If I had celebrity I'd speak up. Since '86 I've noticed Indigenous people and the rest of people of color in film and television -- the independent filmmakers -- get shut out of the dominant news conversation that focuses only upon Afro Americans and their plight, media's fault. With lack of diversity in the mainstream entertainment news talk, we again are not mentioned in the conversation even by the President of U.S.

Could you please clarify to express in a Censored News news article to everyone about the Indigenous, because the stereotypes are forever a disaster in the mainstream. We didn't "vanish" or become extinct as the majority wishes it to be. We have a lot of right. WE maintained to improve, become better at our efforts to change the system: stereotypes of racism-sexism by independently creating our own films and videos, but the white male dominated mainstream film television industry, won't let us.

Been knocking at doors of Hollywood to change stereotypes since the studios began as if in perpetuity. We lived here first and were not discovered, but we endured much inequalities.

Thank you for your time and letting me express this. I had to let you know.

Arlene Bowman, Dine' Indigenous Filmmaker.

GQ article:
http://www.gq.com/story/obama-tv-muslim-characters

Arlene Bowman was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Arlene, a Dine (Navajo) filmmaker and producer, attended school in Phoenix, Arizona. She completed her master's degree in film at the University of California at Los Angeles. One recent project is a mini digital video titled THE GRAFFITI, a 30-minute color experimental drama. 

Arlene Bowman’s filmography is mainly composed of documentaries such as the award-winning NAVAJO TALKING PICTURE(1986) about herself and her shima sani Ann Ruth Biah in Greasewood, which has shown in film festivals around the world. SONG JOURNEY (1994), a documentary about Pow Wow women singers who sing songs in a traditional and not so traditional style, broadcast on PBS.

However, WOMEN AND MEN ARE GOOD DANCERS (1994), a Pow Wow dance-music video, as well as several video poems (1998 & 2000) represent the break from making documentaries. Although Arlene has produced mostly documentary films, she does not consider herself to be a conventional documentary filmmaker. Since the mid-80s, Arlene aspired to make a drama and THE GRAFFITI represents this first effort. 

In the last five years, she has begun to perform songs at the open mic, both solo and with her partner. However, this new performance work did not develop overnight, it started during 1977 in Los Angeles with two guitarists, Terry Sullivan and Chuck Bauser from Seattle, who played rock and roll and delta blues music. Also within the last five years, she has begun to write and sing her own songs. Her first completed song called "Southern Dreamin" was included in THE GRAFFITI soundtrack. 

Presently, Arlene considers herself to be a filmmaker/still photographer who performs, sings songs and recites poetry she has written. The photographs she shoots appear in her blog. In the future, she aspires to create a conference for Indigenous women filmmakers and a nonprofit organization for Indigenous and low-come filmmakers in the United States. 

Censored News is published by Brenda Norrell brendanorrell@gmail.com

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS

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Door Arlene Bowman -Dine’ filmmaker

Copyright Arlene Bowman, Censored News: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.be/2016/02/dine-filmmaker-arlene-bowman-to-obama.html

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Februari 12

President Obama

Hallo, ik wil reageren op het nieuwsartikel in GQ (Gentlemen’s Quarterly -magazine):“President Obama roept op voor TV shows met “Moslim personages die niet gerelateerd zijn aan de nationale veiligheid“ geschreven door Nicole Silverberg op 3 februari,2016.

Eerst en vooral is het niet mijn bedoeling om opzettelijk onbeleefd , maar wel om gewoon eerlijk te zijn.

Mr.President Obama, ik ben een Dine’ inheemse, onafhankelijke filmmaker die in 1986 afgestudeerd is aan U.C.L.A., M.F.A.-film production.

Sinds ik afgestudeerd ben in 1986 ben ik voornamelijk filmmaker geweest, maar ik creëer en beoefen ook andere artistieke gebieden.

Sommige van mijn ambities werden gerealiseerd in Oktober- December 2015; vertoonde Navajo Talking Picture en de Graffiti op het Indigenous film-video festival, Forumn Doc.BH.2015 in Brasil; ‘Here, There and in Between werkstuk gepubliceerd in Without Borders Volume II cataloog, stelde foto’s tentoon op Pushing Boundaries -tentoonstelling en screende the Graffiti in Audit van de Vancouver Art Galerij.

Archeologische informatie bewijst dat de inheemse volken in de Verenigde Staten reeds meer dan 16.000 jaar geleefd hebben. Dit wordt nog betwist door sommige inheemse volken die zeggen dat wij hier altijd al geweest zijn.

Wij zijn nooit geïmmigreerd, zoals de federale regering en anderen die het feit dat wij hier als eersten leefden voor de immigranten overkwamen willen negeren.

Sinds de Verenigde Staten gesticht zijn; hoe minder informatie over onze echte geschiedenis het publiek kent - een gemanipuleerde geschiedenis van hoe federale regeringen, voormalige presidenten van de US ons met geweld van onze gronden verdreven hebben omdat de federale regeringen wilden uitbreiden naar het westen – hoe beter.

Ik geloof in de Doctrine of Discovery (*), hoe de VS technieken gebruikten om van ons af te komen.

Het is goed uitgelegd in het boek van : Robert Miller, Shawnee lawyer's book, "Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny".

Maar het is nog niet over.

Men is niet gestopt ons te verpletteren, hier enkele voorbeelden:

1. Oak Flat: sacraal land van het San Carlos Apache reservaat waar een mijnbedrijf wil beginnen, een doorgestoken kaart van Cain-AZ (ik ben van AZ)
2. Manipulaties achter gesloten deuren door advocaat Stanley Pollack ,om de waterrechten van de Dine’ af te nemen. Dit Ondanks het bestaan van de Winters Doctrine ten behoeve van federaal erkende stammen. Het Dine’ volk werd niet geraadpleegd.

3. Bij mijn terugkeer in de VS heb ik op Netflix de film “The Ridiculous Six”, van co -auteur Adam Sandler bekeken.

Komaan zég, wat een wangedrocht van stereotypen, seksisme en racistisme ten koste van inheemse en Mexicaanse volkeren.

Hoe komt het toch dat wij nooit vooruit komen in Hollywood?

Hoe dan ook, ik ben één tussen de 50 of 500 inheemse filmmakers in de Amerika’ s.

In Brazilië heb ik meer werk gezien van inheemse filmmakers op het film- video festival: wat positief is.

Op de lijst van filmmakers waar ik al van gehoord heb in US en Canada staan: Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, Gunargie O Sullivan, Darlene Nepoose, Ramona Emerson, Black Horse Lowe, Billy Luther, Randy Red Road, Chris Eyre, Sandra Osawa, Sterlin Harjo en anderen.

Dus, wij zijn erop vooruitgegaan, maar kom je ons ook tegen in de mainstream?

Nu wordt er op zijn minst gepraat over, dat het gebrek aan diversiteit in het mainstream entertainment- nieuws in de VS, behalve met betrekking tot inheemse vrouwen, onze opinies met opzet genegeerd worden, en toch leven we hier al langer dan eender welke immigrant in de VS en Canada.

Marlon Brando, een groot acteur was in de jaren ’70 de eerste blanke man die vragen stelde op een eerlijke, intelligente manier over racisme en stereotypering van gekleurde mensen, in het bijzonder inheemsen; in mainstream film en televisie. Dat zal ik nooit vergeten.

Hoeveel beroemde blanken zijn opgestaan voor inheemsen in mainstream film en televisie, en niet gestraft werden om het te doen?

Zijn beroemdheid kwam de Native Amerikaanse visrechten ten goede in Washington, dat uiteindelijk besliste in het voordeel van de Native Amerikaanse visrechten, (the Boldt Decision, George H. Boldt, 1970, U.S. Supreme Court. )

Censored News biedt een nieuw platform voor inheems nieuws en schrijvers.

In de late jaren zestig stonden de American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, vrouwen en anderen op.

Beyonce’ muziek video verwijst naar Black Panthers.

Indien ik ook een beroemdheid zou zijn, dan zou ik ook mijn stem verheffen.

Sinds 86 merk ik inheemse en andere gekleurde mensen op in film en televisie, maar de onafhankelijke filmmakers worden uitgesloten uit de dominerende nieuwsgesprekken die enkel focussen op Afro -Amerikanen en hun lot. De fout van de media.

Door gebrek aan diversiteit in de mainstream entertainment -nieuwspraatjes, worden wij alweer niet genoemd, zelfs niet door de president van de Verenigde Staten.

Kunt u, in een nieuws artikel in Censored News aan iedereen duidelijk maken dat de stereotypering van inheemsen in de mainstream steeds rampzalig zijn.

Wij zijn niet “verdwenen” of “uitgestorven” zoals de meerderheid zou willen.

Wij zijn ons blijven verbeteren, werden straffer met onze inspanningen om het systeem te veranderen- stereotypes van racisme- seksisme -door onafhankelijke eigen films- video’s, maar de blanke door mannen gedomineerde film- televisie- industrie laat het ons niet toe.

Eeuwig kloppen we aan de deuren van Hollywood, sinds de studio’s begonnen zijn om de stereotypering te stoppen.

Wij leefden hier eerst en werden nooit “ontdekt”, maar hebben wel onder de grootste ongelijkheid geleden.

Bedankt voor uw tijd, maar ik moest het u laten weten.

Arlene Bowman, Dine’ Indigenous Filmmaker

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(*) Uit :Discovery Doctrine: Opperrechter John Marshall rechtvaardigde de wijze waarop de koloniale machten land, dat behoorde aan vreemde soevereine naties konden claimen. Eigendomstitel voor het land lag bij de regering wiens onderdanen een territorium bezetten waarvan de inwoners geen onderdanen waren van een Europese Christelijke heerser.

De doctrine werd vooral gebruikt om inheemsen te verdrijven ten voordele van koloniale regeringen.