Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation, and WECAN at U.N. Climate Summit today in Azerbaijan.

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit COP29 in Azerbaijan

By WECAN International, Censored News, Nov. 15, 2024

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Fossil fuel lobbyists continue to saturate every corner of COP 29.

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku— one of the largest delegations this year.

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia

Women's Press Conference screenshot by Censored News

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia 

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 22, 2024
Video https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1z1e5wzg9

CALI, Colombia -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, is at the United Nations COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of false solutions to the climate crisis, like carbon credits and biodiversity credits that are killing nature," she said, adding that fossil fuels must be phased out.

"My people are suffering from environmental genocide," Casey said during the press conference today, "Rights of Nature: A Systematic Solution to Protect Biodiversity."

Casey, introducing herself with her Ponca name, said, "I'm a Ponca woman from the occupied territory of the United States, an area called Oklahoma, that was a POW camp for all the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island at one point."

Casey said ConocoPhillips and all of the extractive industries, are mass murderers killing her people, and killing our Mother Earth. They are poisoning the air, poisoning the rivers and the Ponca people.

    Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca

Describing the scam of carbon credits, she said carbon credits are a way for fossil fuels to continue what they have been doing for a hundred years. Buying into the carbon credit scam is the same as saying: "We give you permission to murder life on Earth and Earth herself."

Carbon credits give corporations the power to continue to pollute the frontline communities, as in Ponca, where the air, water and earth is already defiled.

"Don't give them permission to buy carbon credits."

"They are killing life on Earth."

The Ponca Nation is the first Nation in the United States to pass a statute around the rights of nature, among the nations of the world that have followed Ecuador's lead. 

"If you eat, if you drink, if you breathe, you are a part of nature, and nature is a part of you," she said.

"We are inseparable from nature."

Casey Camp-Horinek is the Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) board member and project coordinator.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

Indigenous at COP27: Speaking out for climate Justice 

Emem Okun of Kebetkache women and member of Grassroots Global Justice's delegation to COP 27 shares her experiences enduring polluted water in her community in the Niger Delta in Nigeria on a panel of Indigenous leaders.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Video of Panel

Translated into French by Christine Prat at:

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7545

Ponca children have asthma and are using inhalers because of the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma, which is now a massive crime scene. In Kenya, children dig for water before going to school. In Nigeria, the water is poisoned by oil and gas wells and fracking and women and children are suffering. 

Speaking during a panel at the United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said she lives in the Occupied Territory of Oklahoma.

"Mass murderers called fossil fuel industries are there to kill us and nothing more," Casey said during an Indigenous Climate Action Panel, after leading a Water Ceremony in the morning.

United States Rattled by Native Women's Testimony Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Photos by Brenda Norrell in Jamaica, Censored News

A delegation of the United States, comprised of the U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy, failed to combat the power of testimony delivered by the Native Women's Delegation in Jamaica

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Native Water Protectors have a place in history.
Their sacrifices to protect the water, land, air and all living things is so powerful that when Native women testified in Jamaica this week, the United States sent a delegation from the U.S. Embassy and U.S. State Department in a failed attempt to protect the image of the United States and present the United States as abiding by its own laws.
Read Censored News detailed coverage of the United States response to the testimony at:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/05/united-states-blames-excessive-force-at.html

SOUTH DAKOTA: First Nation Chiefs forging cross border alliance to oppose Keystone XL

Tsleil-Waututh spokesperson Rueben George, Coun. Charlene Aleck, and manager of cultural relations Gabriel George open the signing ceremony for the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in Vancouver, B.C. on Thurs. Sept. 22, 2016 Photo credit National Observer

First Nation Chiefs to travel to South Dakota to forge cross-border alliance with tribes opposing Keystone XL

Chiefs are supporting Tribes in the US on July 4, the US "Independence Day," as a day to mark their own independence as sovereign nations

By Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion
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Dutch translation by Alice Holemans at NAIS

TURTLE ISLAND, CNW/ - A large delegation of Chiefs of First Nations from across Canada that are among the over 120 First Nations and Tribes who have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion will be travelling to the sacred Black Hills of the Great Sioux Nation in South Dakota at the invitation of US Tribal leaders for a historic ceremony on July 4th in opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline and the other three planned oil sands expansion pipelines (Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Expansion, Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Energy East).

LIVE in New York: Indigenous Women Protecting Earth, Rights and Communities

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Michelle Cook, Dine', and Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca in New York today.

Photo by Michelle Cook

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Featuring 

Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca; Ponca Nation Council Woman, WECAN Advisory Council Member, USA)
Lucy Mulenkei (Maasai; Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network, Kenya)
Kandi Mossett (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara; Lead Organizer on the Extreme Energy & Just Transition Campaign with the Indigenous Environmental Network, USA)
Gloria Ushigua* (Sápara; President of the Association of Sapara Women, Ecuador) - to be confirmed
Betty Lyons (Onondaga; President and Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance, USA)
Michelle Cook (Diné; human rights lawyer and founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock, USA)
Heather Milton Lightening (Pasqua First Nation, Cree, Anishinabe, Blackfoot and Dakota; Indigenous Tar Sands Campaigner with Polaris Institute, Canada)

Alina Saba (Limbu; Nepal Policy Center, Nepal)

Watch more on Indigenous Women's Media
https://www.facebook.com/womensindigenousmedia/videos/440975529591193/
Read more about forum:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/04/indigenous-women-voices-of-global_24.html

Listen: Mekasi Camp Horinek on Standing Rock Resistance Radio

Photo by Bold Nebraska

Listen to Mekasi Camp Horinek, Ponca

speaking to the Standing Rock Camp

Recorded by Govinda, Standing Rock Resistance Radio

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

CANNON BALL, N.D. -- In Standing Rock camp, Mekasi Camp Horinek, Ponca, speaks to the water protectors about how the water defense of the Missouri River began, when Dakota Access Pipeline construction began.
The people decided to sacrifice for the water.
"We decided some of us would sacrifice, and be arrested that day." "We are not going to allow them to oppress us anymore. We have children."
"Prayer and sacrifice."
Mekasi said, "Elders would tell me, 'I want to get arrested today.' He said he has never seen elected leaders want to get arrested with the people, like Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault and Councilman Dana Yellow Fat did.
He said there were no pipe bombs or weapons like police have claimed. The elders kept them centered in prayer and ceremony.
"This isn't just a Native issue, it is a human rights issue."
"This is no longer a camp. It is a village."
"We don't need weapons, we don't need pipe bombs."
The American Indian Movement had a lot to do with the spiritual awakening of the people, he said.
His uncle, Carter Camp, Ponca, was a cofounder of the American Indian Movement.
The Seven Council Fires are back together.
The Sacred Lodge is back up.
The traditional governing system is back in place.
"I don't want anyone to get hurt, but we have to stand our ground."
"Strong hearts to the front."


http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016./08/listen-mekasi-camp-horinek-on-standing.html

Sacred Ponca 'Resistance Corn' Planted in Path of Keystone XL Pipeline

Photo: Casey Camp with her two sons at the Reject and Protect event in Washington, DC. (Photo by Garth Lenz for Bold Nebraska and iLCP)

Resistance Corn

By Bold Nebraska

Casey Camp–a committed Ponca leader, actress and environmentalist–grabs anyone’s attention when she walks in the room. Her strength is felt immediately and her words stay with you long after they are spoken. It is Casey who had the idea to bring the Ponca corn to other families across the globe to share our grit and resolve to stop risky oil and tarsands pipelines.

“The Ponca Corn has continued to be shared throughout the Northern and Southern Americas,” explained Casey Camp. “I have gifted the corn to other Indigenous people’s throughout my travels, and have received words of encouragement, gratitude and prayers for the blessing of the corn.  Those who I have gifted in South America refer to it as ‘The Seed of Resistance.’ Tangible in it’s growth and harvest of the fight against Environmental Genocide.”

Seeds of Resistance Tour: Today's schedule:

Wednesday, June 8th: 

• 9:00 a.m: Union, West Virginia
  • Patricia Anne ‘Cookie’ Cole, Blue Roamin Farm, US 219, near Union, WV 24983
  • Quote: “I have lived on or near Peters Mountain and Monroe County almost my entire life. My family’s ancestral property is on Peters Mountain and in the Zenith Valley. To us, this is sacred and holy ground and pristine water. Our family has fiercely protected our freedoms and our way of life, so that we could continue to be free and enjoy the land and mountains that we so dearly love. Monroe County is a special place, and we have been fortunate to be its caretakers and defenders. I am grateful that the Bold Alliance and the Monroe Coalition have chosen my farm as a place to plant the Sacred Ponca Indian Corn—“Seeds of Resistance”.”
• 4:00 p.m: Weston, West Virginia
  • Tom Berlin, 1833 Left Millstone Rd, Weston, WV 26452 (map)
  • Quote:  “We are supporting this planting project as a statement of solidarity with our brothers and sisters throughout the nation and world who are fighting against a system that is based on continuous and accelerating extraction of the wealth of the Earth to the detriment of local individuals, communities, and ecosystems and the benefit of the few powerful and wealthy.”

Sacred Ponca “Resistance Corn” Again

 Planted in Path of Keystone XL Pipeline

by Jane Kleeb

Bold Nebraska

Amos Hinton and Mekasi Horinek of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, and farmer Art Tanderup during the 2014 planting of sacred Ponca corn on the Tanderup farm (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei)

A seed of corn means many things–food, bio-fuel, coating for medicine, bio-plastic, feed for cattle.  A seed of corn has also become a cherished symbol of our collective resistance to tarsands and the irresponsible oil production that is risking our land, property rights, climate and water.

For the past three years now, members of the Camp family from the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma have returned to their ancestral homeland in Nebraska to plant rows of sacred Ponca “resistance corn” on Art and Helen Tanderup’s farm in Neligh — this land also lies directly in the path of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and is sacred ground to the Ponca.

“Once again we made the journey to the Tanderup farm from Oklahoma to Nebraska on the Ponca Trail of Tears to plant the sacred Ponca seeds of resistance,” said Mekasi Camp Horinek, son of Native American activist Casey Camp. “Not only in the soil of our ancestors’ homeland, but also in the hearts and minds of all the people that honor, respect and protect Mother Earth as the roots of these resistance seeds spread across the continents. So does the awareness of fight to stop keystone XL pipeline and protect mother earth for our future generations.”

Mekasi drove through the night to be at Art and Helen’s farm by sunrise. He walked into the field with a strong heart, offered tobacco and sang the corn planting song for a good harvest. This sunrise ceremony is personal for Mekasi and the Ponca Nation. A gift handed down by generations before him continues to live on to this day.

There were no large crowds and no TV cameras. Just two families bonded forever by their shared love of the land and water, respect for the lives of Ponca that were lost at the hands of our government and the resolve to stop Keystone XL.

“We are humbled to plant our second crop of Ponca sacred corn. The partnership with our southern relatives honors those who were forced to leave their homeland, said farmer Art Tanderup. “As we prepared to plant, Mekasi spoke of his young grandfather who walked in treacherous conditions across this farm. The spirit of White Buffalo Girl lives in this community.”

Art and Helen Tanderup’s farm sits both on the historic “Ponca Trail of Tears,” the tragic journey faced by tribal members forcibly removed from Nebraska 138 years ago, and in the path of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Helen Tanderup is the backbone of the family farm. She grew up on this land and knows every tree and blade of grass. Helen assisted with the planting and will be out there, as she was last year, tending to the corn. Women may be overlooked in some environmental and energy fights, but with our work to stop the pipeline, women are the heart and the workers who always stand ready to lead.

Helen Tanderup in the field with sacred Ponca red corn from the first harvest.

USDA certification for the sacred Ponca corn grown on the Tanderup farm

In addition to the Ponca corn planted in Neligh, the Ponca Nation planted the sacred corn harvest from last year in Oklahoma. In an image of the “four winds,” the Ponca Nation has planted four 20-acre plots using the corn that was harvested from last year’s crop. A powerful action by the Ponca since the corn they planted had not touched their ancestral roots of Nebraska soil for over 130 years.

Art Tanderup certified the corn with the USDA to ensure there is a formal record. Our actions have deep personal meaning to our families and now the action of the corn is also documented in our government’s formal record.

Reject Keystone: Ponca Casey Camp 'The white man has turned on its own'

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, screen capture by Censored News

Ponca Casey Camp-Horinek: The white man has turned on its own, seizing the land of farmers and ranchers

By Brenda Norrell

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English, Dutch and French

WASHINGTON DC -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said the white man has turned on its own. White farmers and ranchers on the route of the Keystone XL pipeline are having to face the same seizure of the land and destruction that Native Americans have always faced.

Speaking during the Cowboy and Indian Alliance’s Reject and Protect action in DC, Camp-Horinek said the tar sands have already devastated First Nations relatives in Canada and is now targeting Native Americans and their relatives to the south.

Joined by ranchers from Nebraska, Camp-Horinek said, “They are having to face the same thing as we did in all these centuries of the devastation of our earth, where the white man would come through and just take what he wanted.”

Reject and Protect in DC: Screen capture by Censored News

“Now he has turned on his own. He is going to the ranchers and farmers and is doing the same thing to them.”

Camp-Horinek said a powerful alliance has been formed between Native people, farmers and ranchers in the Cowboy and Indian Alliance.

As Native women raised tipis on the National Mall, Camp-Horinek said, “We are women of power. We are going to change the structure because we have a vested interest in the generations to come.”

“We are going to make a difference. They will listen to us, or they will die the same deaths. They will suffocate in their same nests.”

Reject and Protect tipi raising: Screen capture Censored News

“We are determined that our great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will be able to eat, to drink and to breathe."

Camp-Horinek is a long-time Native rights activist, environmentalist, and actress. As traditional Drumkeeper for the Ponca Pa-tha-ta, Woman’s Scalp Dance Society, Camp-Horinek helps maintain the cultural identity of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma for herself, her family, and her community.

Camp-Horinek recently testified before the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Ecuador. In her defense of Mother Earth, she has traveled worldwide and spoke to gatherings at the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico in 2010.

As an expert witness at the Rights of Nature Tribunal in Ecuador in January, Camp-Horinek described the responsibility of the caretakers and defenders of the Earth. She testified on the oil and gas drilling, and fracking, that is devastating Indian lands in the US. 

The Ecuador Tribunal followed the Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010. Following the gathering of Indigenous Peoples from around the word in Bolivia, both Bolivia and Ecuador created new laws stating the Rights of Nature.

In Ecuador, Camp-Horinek said, "Our prophecies and teachings tell us that life on Mother Earth is in danger and is coming to a time of great transformation. As Indigenous Peoples, from the global South and North, we are accepting the responsibility designated by our prophecies to tell the world that we must live in peace with each other and Mother Earth to ensure harmony within Creation."

Watch the following video from the Reject and Protect action currently in DC. Listen to the words of Camp-Horinek and Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe founder of Honor the Earth. LaDuke describes the dream that brought her with her sister, and fighting on horseback the flow of the pipeline. http://www.idlenomore.ca/reject_and_protect_day_1

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Schedule for Reject and Protect in Washington on Saturday, April 26, 2014:
http://rejectandprotect.org/the-plan-for-saturday-the-26th/

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http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2332

EJETER LE KEYSTONE XL’: CASEY CAMP-HORINEK, PONCA, DIT QUE ‘L’HOMME BLANC S’EST RETOURNE CONTRE LUI-MEME’

On April 25, 2014, in Sables bitumineux/Oléoduc Keystone XL, by Chris P

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, screen capture by Censored News

CASEY CAMP-HORINEK, PONCA, DECLARE : L’HOMME BLANC S’EST RETOURNE CONTRE LUI-MEME, EN REQUISITIONNANT LES TERRES DE FERMIERS ET D’ELEVEURS

Par Brenda Norrell
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See original article in English
Jeudi 24 avril 2014
Traduction Christine Prat

WASHINGTON D.C. – Casey Camp-Horinek, une Ponca, dit que l’homme blanc s’est retourné contre lui-même. Des fermiers et éleveurs blancs se trouvant sur le trajet prévu pour le pipeline Keystone XL doivent faire face aux mêmes réquisitions de terres et destruction que les Autochtones.

Dans un discours prononcé dans le cadre de l’action ‘Rejeter et Protéger’ de l’Alliance Cowboys-Indiens à Washington, C. Camp-Horinek dit que les sables bitumineux avaient déjà dévasté les territoires de leurs parents des Premières Nations au Canada et visaient maintenant les Autochtones et leurs parents du sud.

Rejointe par des éleveurs du Nebraska, C. Camp-Horinek a déclaré « Ils doivent faire face à la même chose que nous, pendant tous ces siècles de dévastation de notre terre, quand l’homme blanc arrivait et prenait ce qu’il voulait ».
« Maintenant il s’est retourné contre les siens. Il va chez les éleveurs et les fermiers et fait la même chose avec eux ».

C. Camp-Horinek dit qu’une alliance puissante s’était formée entre les Autochtones, les fermiers et les éleveurs au sein de l’Alliance Cowboys-Indiens.

A propos des femmes Autochtones qui ont monté des tipis sur le National Mall, Casey Camp-Horinek dit « Nous sommes des femmes de pouvoir. Nous allons changer les structures parce que nous avons un intérêt particulier dans les générations à venir ».
« Nous sommes déterminées à ce que nos petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-petits-enfants puissent manger, boire et respirer ».

Casey Camp-Horinek est une activiste Autochtone de longue date, une écologiste et une actrice. En tant que Gardienne du Tambour pour la Pa-tha-ta Ponca, la Société de la Danse du Scalp de la Femme, C. Camp-Horinek aide à maintenir l’identité culturelle de la Nation Ponca d’Oklahoma pour elle-même, sa famille et sa communauté.

C. Camp-Horinek a récemment témoigné devant le Tribunal pour les Droits de la Nature en Equateur. Elle a voyagé dans le monde entier pour la défense de Notre Mère la Terre et s’est adressée à des rassemblements lors de la Conférence sur le Climat des Nations Unies à Cancun, au Mexique, en 2010.
Lorsqu’elle a témoigné en tant qu’expert au Tribunal pour les Droits de la Nature en Equateur, en janvier, elle a expliqué la responsabilité de ceux qui prennent soin de la Terre et ceux qui la défendent. Elle a témoigné sur les forages pétroliers et gaziers, ainsi que sur la fracturation hydraulique, qui dévastent des terres Indiennes aux Etats-Unis.
Le Tribunal en Equateur faisait suite à la Conférence sur Notre Mère la Terre de Cochabamba, en Bolivie, en 2010.
Suite au rassemblement de Peuples Autochtones du monde entier en Bolivie, la Bolivie et l’Equateur ont adopté des lois affirmant les Droits de la Nature.

En Equateur, Casey Camp-Horinek avait dit « Nos prophéties et enseignements nous disent que la vie sur notre Mère la Terre est en danger et atteint une époque de grande transformation. En tant que Peuples Autochtones du Sud et du Nord, nous acceptons la responsabilité indiquée par nos prophéties de dire au monde que nous devons vivre en paix les uns avec les autres et notre Mère la Terre pour assurer l’harmonie dans la Création. » (voir article du 19 février 2014)

Tagged with: Alliance Cowboys-Indiens • Casey Camp-Horinek • Cowboy Indian Alliance • résistance au pipeline Keystone XL • résistance aux sables bitumineux


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Dutch translation by NAIS
http://www.bloggen.be/natam/

Ponca Casey Camp-Horinek: “De blanke man keert zich tegen de zijnen door het land van boeren en ranchers in te palmen.”

Door Brenda Norrell ,Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Nederlandse vertaling door A. Holemans voor de NAIS Gazette: www.bloggen.be/natam

Washington DC- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca zei dat de blanke man zich nu tegen de zijnen keert. Blanke farmers en ranchers die langs de Keystone XL pijpleiding route wonen zien nu voor hun ogen het ontglippen en de destructie van het land, net als de Native Amerikanen.

Tijdens de ‘Reject and Protect’ actie in DC zei Camp-Horinek dat de teerzanden reeds hun vuile werk gedaan hebben bij hun First Nations verwanten in Canada en dat nu Native Amerikanen en hun verwanten in het zuiden als doelwit gekozen zijn.

Voor de ranchers uit Nebraska die zich bij de actie voegden zei Camp-Horinek: “ Nu moeten zij hetzelfde meemaken wat wij reeds eeuwenlang meegemaakt hebben: de verwoesting van onze aarde waar de blanke man doorkomt om te grijpen wat hij wil”.

“Nu heeft hij zich tot de zijnen gekeerd. Hij gaat naar de ranchers en boeren en doet hetzelfde met hen.”

Camp-Horinek zei dat er nu in de Cowboy-Indian Alliance een krachtig verbond gesloten is tussen Natives, boeren en ranchers.

Terwijl de vrouwen de teepees optrokken op de National Mall, zei Camp-Horinek: “Wij zijn krachtige vrouwen. Wij gaan de structuur veranderen omdat wij investeren in de toekomstige generaties”

“Wij gaan het verschil maken. Zij zullen naar ons luisteren. Wij zijn vastbesloten om ervoor te zorgen dat dan onze achter- achter- achter-achter- kleinkinderen zullen kunnen eten, drinken en ademen”.

Camp-Horinek is een  jarenlange Native Rights activiste, milieu- activist en actrice. Als traditionele drumkeeper voor de Ponca Pa-tha-ta, ‘Woman’s Scalp Dance Society’, helpt Camp-Horinek de culturele identiteit van de Ponca Natie van Oklahoma in stand te houden voor haarzelf, haar familie en haar gemeenschap.

Onlangs heeft Camp-Horinek een getuigenis afgelegd voor de’ Rights of Nature Tribunaal in Ecuador.’ In haar verdediging voor Moeder Aarde heeft zij de wereld afgereisd en op de conferentie van de VN  over de klimaat verandering in Cancun, Mexico gesproken.

Voor meer over haar werk als ‘expert witness’ : Rights of Nature Tribunal

Bekijk de volgende video van de ‘Reject and Protect’ actie in DC. Luister naar de woorden van Camp-Horinek en Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe, stichter van Honor the Earth. LaDuke beschrijft haar droom die haar samenbracht met haar zuster en vecht tegen de pijpleiding.

http://www.idlenomore.ca/reject_and_protect_day_1

ECUADOR Rights of Nature Tribunal hears 8 cases

First Global Tribunal on Rights of Nature hears 8 cases

By Global Alliance

Friday, January 17th, 2014

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FIRST WORLD TRIBUNAL ON RIGHTS OF NATURE
HEARS EIGHT CASES FOR ADMISSIBILITY

GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE
COMMITS TO DEEPEN AND EXPAND THE WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT
QUITO, ECUADOR

The world’s first Tribunal on the Rights of Nature is being held in Quito, Ecuador, today. Headed by Vandana Shiva, physicist and internationally renowned environmental activist, this “Seed” Tribunal is hearing eight cases to determine their admissibility for adjudication at a later Tribunal, which will be held in another city and country later this year. The Tribunal for Rights of Nature will become permanent, hearing cases around the world.

The cases and the persons presenting the factual arguments for admitting them for adjudication under Rights of Nature are:

BP                                            Esperanza Martínez, Ecuador

Fracking                                  Shannon Biggs, United States

Chevron                                  Julio Prieto, Ecuador

Yasuní-ITT                               Carlos Larrea, Ecuador

Great Barrier Reef                 Michelle Maloney, Australia

Minería Condor Mirador      Nathaly Yépez, Ecuador

GMOs                                     Elizabeth Bravo, Ecuador

Climate Change                     Pablo Solón, Bolivia

The international panel of judges sitting on the Tribunal includes:

Alberto Acosta, economist and former President of the Constituent Assembly from Quito, Ecuador

Tantoo Cardinal, actress (e.g., Dances with Wolves) from the Tar Sands of Canada

Blanca Chancoso, Kichwa leader and educator from Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador

Cormac Cullinan, lawyer and author (Wild Law), Earth Democracy Coop, Cape Town, South Africa

Tom Goldtooth, Dine’/Dakota, director of Indigenous Environmental Network from Minnesota, US

Julio César Trujillo, constitutional lawyer for Yasunidos from Quito, Ecuador

Elsie Monge, human rights activist and president of CEDHU y FIDH from Quito, Ecuador

Atossa Soltani, founder and director of Amazon Watch from Washington, DC, US

Enrique Viale, environmental lawyer from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Native rights activist Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca from Oklahoma, US) andPatricia Gualinga, an indigenous of the Amazon and director of Sayaku, will provide expert witness testimony on the critical importance of Rights of Nature.Carlos Pérez will provide testimony as to his recent actions in defense of Mother Earth, the reasons for his actions and its consequences.

Patricia Gualinga, Sarayaku Leader.

The Tribunal begins at 8:30 and concludes at 17:00. Before rendering her judgment at the end of the day, Vandana Shiva will speak to the issues at stake in this Tribunal and the worldwide Rights of Nature movement.

The Tribunal marks the end of a five-day summit of more than 60 global leaders of the Rights of Nature movement who form part of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. The participants hail from Australia, Switzerland, South Africa, United States, Spain, Canada, India, Romania, Bolivia, Argentina, and the United Kingdom, as well as Ecuador.

The Global Alliance for Rights of Nature was founded at a gathering in Ecuador in 2010, two years after Ecuador became the first nation in the world to adopt Rights of Nature in its Constitution. At the summit, the leaders committed to redoubling their efforts to broaden and deepen the movement worldwide over the coming year, with a series of actions that will be detailed in the next months.

The Rights of Nature movement draws on the wisdom and cosmovision of indigenous peoples in positing a new jurisprudence that recognizes the right of nature in all its forms to exist, persist, evolve and regenerate.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Robin R. Milam
1.530.272.4322/Nature@TheRightsofNature.org

Ponca Casey Camp at Rights of Nature Summit Tribunal in Ecuador

Opening Ceremony of Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature – January 14, 2014 - Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca), Osprey Orielle Lake, Elise Garcia, Silver Donald Cameron and Cormac Cullinen.

Photo by Sister Patricia Siemen, OP

Update: Rights of Nature Tribunal hears 8 cases on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/01/ecuador-rights-of-nature-tribunal-hears.html

By Brenda Norrell

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The Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal is now underway in Ecuador. It follows the Rights of Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010, and brings together Indigenous Peoples from around the world in defense of Mother Earth. Casey Camp, Ponca, is among those present.

Sister Elsie Garcia is providing news coverage of the summit and tribunal, which ends Friday, in Ecuador. Ecuador was the first country to enact the Rights of Nature as law.

“In our language, the word ‘rights’ doesn’t exist,” said Blanca Chancoso, a Kichwa leader from Cotacachi, Ecuador. “For us it translates to the power to live.” Read more of today's coverage http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/indigenous-peoples-work-save-land-extinction

The Global Alliance for the Emergent 'Rights of Nature' movment announced the international summit and tribunal being held in Otavalo and Quito, Ecuador, Jan.. 13 -- 17, 2014. This statement was issued:

Key leaders of the emergent nature rights movement are holding an international summit in Ecuador on January 13-17, 2014. Its twofold purpose is to analyze the experiences of communities in Ecuador, Bolivia, and United States that have already implemented “Rights of Nature” laws and to devise a unified global strategy for advancing the Rights of Nature movement around the world.

In Memory Carter Camp, Ponca

Carter Camp on far right at Wounded Knee March 1973.

In Memory of Carter Camp, Ponca

Carter Camp on far left. Photo Brenda Norrell

Carter Camp has passed over to the Spirit World. In memory, a note of thanks for Carter and all of those present for sharing this special day in 2004. Prayers for a good journey, Brenda, Censored News

By Brenda Norrell

Human Rights Editor

UN OBSERVER and International Report 2004

CHAMBERLAIN, South Dakota -- When the Lewis and Clark Discovery Expedition in South Dakota, Lakotas, Poncas and Kiowas were waiting for them and demanded that they turn around.

Surrounded by a heavy buildup of federal agents and police, Carter Camp told the Expedition in 2004 that Lewis and Clark were harbingers of the Holocaust. "What they wrote down was a blueprint for the genocide of my people. You are re-enacting something ugly, evil and hateful. You are re-enacting the coming of death to our people. You are re-enacting genocide."

Carter Camp warned the expedition to halt or they would be stopped. He said the expedition has been told lies and are spreading lies.

Camp said Lewis and Clark are a part of the American lie.

"They had no honor. They came with the American lie. They murdered 60 million people."

Deb White Plume, Lakota from Pine Ridge gave the expedition a symbolic blanket of small pox. Another Lakota woman from Pine Ridge said she carries the DNA of the Lakota women who survived the slaughters that Lewis and Clark opened the door to. She said she is prepared to die for this cause."I believe in armed struggle," Wicopy Wakia Wi of Pine Ridge said. "The act of genocide stops here. We are tired of living poor. We are not afraid to die. I am willing to die."She told them they would not proceed up the river."You are not going on. I will organize every sister from here to Oregon to stop you."

After that day in 2004, Mandrell did stop. He left the Lewis and Clark Expedition and formed his own journey, his own adventure that included American Indian friends that he made along the way.

Seated on the radio bus, Mandrell remembered meeting with Carter Camp's son Vic Camp from Pine Ridge, on that day in 2004. "I still have his number on my speed dial."

Earlier, Vic Camp had remembered the victory of hearing Mandrell had left the Expedition. During an interview in April, 2005, Vic Camp said, "That was a great victory for us."

But on the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota on that day in 2004, Lakota elder Floyd Hand, among four bands of Lakota spoke from the well that was chilling.

"We are the descendants of Red Cloud and Crazy Horse.""I did not come here in peace."Hand said they would not smoke the pipe and if the expedition continues up the Missouri River, the families of the expedition members would suffer the spiritual consequences of small pox.

Referring to the tribal governments who welcomed the expedition, Hand said those tribal governments reflect the same type thinking as the re-enactors and are not the voice of the grassroots people."The tribal governments are not a voice for us. They are imitating us, like you are imitating Lewis and Clark."

"We want you to turn around and go home," Alex White Plume, Lakota from Pine Ridge, told the expedition.White Plume said Lakota are here on this land for a reason."We were put here by the spirits." He said the Lakota never lost their language or ceremonies and now they are making these requests: Lakota want their territory back, their treaties to be honored and to be able to continue their healing ways.

White Plume said many Indian people have become assimilated and colonized. "We pray for our own colonized people. We say they are in a prison in the white man's world." White Plume said there was no point in the expedition coming here. "All you did was open up these old wounds."

By Carter Camp

Diane Sawyer asked the question I often am asked when people learn how hard it is to live on the rez. "why don't you leave?" The question has many answers to us. Mainly we are still a tribal people and we want to live among our nations people. We're a people who consider our cousins as our brothers and sisters, our uncles and aunts as fathers and mothers. We have grandmothers and fathers galore and we care about all of them. We like to be there when someone dies or a baby is born. And we love our homelands. We believe the soil and every plant contains the dust of our ancestors. I think the Irish who stayed in Ireland during the great famine would understand, or a Jew who stayed in Palistine before there was an Israel. But Americans who will move away from their family for a better climate or job will have a hard time understanding the strength of the attraction to a specific land. The other reason we don't become 'economic refugees' is that reservation poverty is preferable to living... in an American slum so we always go home. Most of us have actually left at some time in our lives, I was personally successful in California, but I came home. Carter Camp

Carter Camp: Remembering Wounded Knee
published with Carter's permission at Censored News in 2007

By Carter Camp

Ah-ho My Relations, each year with the changing of the season I post this remembrance of Wounded Knee 73. I wrote it a few years ago when some of our brave people had walked to Yellowstone to stop the slaughter of our Buffalo relations. When I did I was surprised at the response from people who were too young to remember WK73 and I was pleased that some old WK vets wrote to me afterwards. So each year on this date I post the short story again and invite you-all to send it around or use as you will. As you do I ask you to remember that our reasons for going to Wounded Knee still exist and that means the need for struggle and resistance also still exist. Our land and sacred sites are threatened as never before even our sacred Mother herself is faced with unnatural warming caused by extreme greed.

In some areas of conflict between our people and those we signed treaties with, it is best to negotiate or "work within the system" but, because our struggle is one of survival, there are also times when a warrior must stand fast even at the risk of one's life. I believed that in 1973 when I was thirty and I believe it today in my sixties. But Wounded Knee 73 was really not about the fight to me, it was about the strong statement that our traditional way of living in this world is not about to disappear and our people are not a "vanishing race" as wasicu education would have you believe. As time has passed and I see so many of our young people taking part in a traditional way of living and believing I know our fight was worth it and those we lost for our movement died worthy deaths.
Carter Camp 2007
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Photo by Cat Carnes, thank you

Honoring Carter Camp at White Eagle, Oklahoma today, April 20, 2013.
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Photos Carter Camp at Wounded Knee 1973

Carter Augustus Camp

12/30/2013

Ponca City News

http://poncacitynews.com/Carter-Augustus-Camp

“The greatest of us has gone on ahead now…” began the open letter to our family from our Wazhazhe brother, Carter Revard, Poet Laureate for the Osage Nation.

Carter Augustus Camp, began his final journey late Friday afternoon, Dec. 27, 2013.

The son of Woodrow Howard Camp and Jewell Faye McDonald Camp, a descendant of the McDonald and Yellowberry families, Carter was born the summer of 1941 at Pawnee Indian Hospital, the third of six children. He graduated from Haskell Institute, now Haskell University, in 1959. Excellent in sports, Carter’s basketball team lost in the Kansas State Finals, an experience never forgotten. Shortly after leaving Haskell, he enlisted in the U.S. Army serving a tour in Western Europe. After his discharge he relocated with the family to work in Los Angeles, Calif., and played basketball for the American Indian Athletic Association on weekends. Following his father’s philosophy of staunch unionism, at his place of employment Carter began representing fellow workers as the shop steward and was then elected business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Coming of age in the turbulent 1960s when racism was rampant and the U.S. President and other great leaders were murdered, Carter thus began his lifelong passion as a champion for social change and specifically for his beloved Native people.

In 1970, back home in Oklahoma, Carter worked for change in the way federal funds were distributed in the Oklahoma school system meeting with school and tribal officials. Shortly thereafter the Johnson-O’Malley monies that were earmarked for native children began to be used the way they were intended, an auspicious beginning and brought notice to friend and foe alike. Carter joined the still fledgling American Indian Movement [AIM] during this period and soon after organized the first AIM chapters in Oklahoma and Kansas. The Trail of Broken Treaties was a nationwide protest in the form of a caravan of native activists traveling from the west coast to Washington D.C. with many stops in between. The huge Oklahoma/Kansas contingent, over 20 carloads, was a reflection both of Carter’s organizing skills and the readiness of the native people to help bring about positive change beginning with a review of native treaty’s with the U.S. government. During the eventful caravan trip, Carter and Hank Adams, president of The National Council of Churches, co-authored the groundbreaking “Twenty Points” summation document to present to government officials in Washington. The Nixon officials chose not to meet with AIM leaders resulting in a three day takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building ending only with government concessions made including future treaty negotiations. At this time, Native rights violations, civil and legal were commonplace throughout the United States with South Dakota leading the way in police brutality and inhumane treatment. With the massacre of hundreds of innocent women and children at Wounded Knee, S.D. in 1890, it was a historically appropriate site for the American Indian Movement to bring national attention to the struggles of the Lakota and all Native peoples. There was a great meeting of all the Lakota chiefs with the exception of one who sent a relative. There it was decided to invite the AIM as a last desperate call for help. The ensuing 71 day occupation of WK served as a rallying call and was heeded throughout the nation with carloads of Native people being arrested as far as 500 miles distant. Carter Camp was given the honor of leading the first wave of warriors into Wounded Knee, securing communications and making safe the entry of the caravan of activists. “Finally I bent over and picked a sprig of sage…I looked for BigFoot and YellowBird in the darkness and I said aloud, ‘We are back my relations, We are home, Hoka Hey’” – Carter Camp. Native scholars and activists call this WK a benchmark in the struggle for Native sovereignty. After Wounded Knee in White Oak, Okla. the last great national gathering of AIM took place. Carter was elected the national chairman by acclamation. From that time until the present he has continued the fight to protect the remnants of sovereignty that we still enjoy, with protecting the Mother Earth foremost.

Carter was preceded in death by his parents and sister Darlena Overland. He is survived by his wife, Linda Carson Camp and sons Kenny, Jeremy, Victorio, Mazhonaposhe and Augustus. Also sister, Casey Camp-Horinek and brothers, Craig and Dwain Camp. Carter also leaves behind numerous nieces and nephews, a large extended family and innumerable friends from across the nation. Casket bearers will be, Kenny Camp, Jeremy Reed, Victorio Camp, Mazhonaposhe, Ahmbaska Camp, Augustus Camp, and Frank Carson. The traditional noon feast will be served at Ponca Nation Cultural Center, Tuesday, Dec. 31, to be followed by service at 2 p.m. and burial at the Ponca Nation Cemetery up on the hill under the direction of Trout Funeral Home and Crematorium.

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