O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity, published with permission, Censored News

Biden used the crimes committed against children in boarding schools to advance the political campaign at Gila River Indian Community. It backfired. -- Censored News

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived.

As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: "There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! Land Back."

Today: Sacred Land Prayer Walk: Flagstaff to Red Butte, Havasupai Oct. 2 -- 6, 2024

Oct. 4, 2024 -- Update with photos from the walk at:

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/today-peace-walkers-to-havasuapis.html

From October 2 to 6, 2024 Jun San Yasuda, a Nipponzan Myohoji walker for peace, and additional buddhist monks and nuns will be walking over 66 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona to Sacred Red Butte on Havasupai homelands in solidarity with the fight to stop the Pinyon Plain uranium mine.

As a Nipponzan Myohoji walker for peace, Jun San has walked thousands of miles across Turtle Island over the past 46 years. All are invited to join this meditative prayer walk for a nuclear free world.

This walk will start Wednesday, October 2, at 10 am outside Flagstaff City Hall.

Vision Maker Native Film Festival -- Watch free online Oct. 10 -- Nov. 13, 2022

Vision Maker Film Festival Begins Today, Monday!

Vision Maker Media's ninth biennial

By Vision Maker Media

Censored News

Now Playing, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022: Sister Wolves and the films below.

https://visionmakermedia.org/sister-wolves

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SISTER WOLVES

BEN-ALEX DUPRIS, COLVILLE
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

Ben-Alex Dupris is an enrolled member of the Colville Tribes in Washington State, and also Mnicoujou Lakota. He is a director-producer working within the paradigm of Indigenous storytelling. He is a Concordia Studio Artist-in-Residence alumni, and a Firelight Media Impact Producer's Fellow. His film "Sweetheart Dancers" won the Grand Jury for Best Short at Outfest LA 2019 and his upcoming PBS American Master's film follows political painter Bunky Echo-Hawk. Currently he is producing "Paulette," for Director Heather Rae and Women Make Movies, and "Firecracker Bullets" for Chad Charlie and Vision Maker Media.

Watch now 
https://visionmakermedia.org/sister-wolves

The Vision Maker Media Film Festival is a free hybrid event beginning October 10 and continuing through November 13, 2022 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and online. This year we are celebrating the theme TOGETHER.

The Vision Maker Film Festival will feature 5 weeks of American Indian, Alaska Native, and worldwide Indigenous films--with each week featuring a new theme.