Showing posts with label Western Shoshone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western Shoshone. Show all posts
August 30, 2022
Censored 'Trespassing' film reveals Natives targeted by nuclear industry
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| Ward Valley: Halting a Nuclear Dump on Sacred Land. Photos by Molly Johnson Censored around the world, the film Trespassing tells the story of the successful protest and halt to a radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley, led by Mojave and Colorado River Indian Nations. It shows the impacts of the atomic bomb testing on Western Shoshone and shares the words of Laguna Pueblo uranium miner Dorothy Purely. She died from cancer as the film was being made. A Dineh uranium miner from Red Valley on the Navajo Nation says they were never told of the danger of the radioactive dust where they ate their lunch. We interviewed filmmaker Carlos Demenezes in Tucson, where the film won a prestigious award in 2006 while being rejected globally. At Ward Valley in the Mojave Desert, the protests spanned years, with AIM and the resistance facing off with the Bureau of Land Management on the isolated dirt road into the camp, for the protection of the desert tortoise and sacred mountain. The radioactive dump could have poisoned the water of the Colorado River, a source of water for millions. This powerful film was rejected by Sundance Film Festival twice, and most of the leading film festivals in the world after its release. The horrors of uranium mining and the nuclear industry of the U.S. government and its corporate partners, continue in a trail of cancer and death. |
November 4, 2020
'Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump is Illegal'-- Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
'Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump is Illegal'-- Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
By Ian ZabartePrincipal Man of the Western Shoshone
Censored News
Comments of the Principal Man Ian Zabarte of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians and Secretary of the Native Community Action Council--November 3, 2020 on the NUREG-2239--Environmental Impact Statement for Interim Storage Partners LLC’s License Application for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel in Andrews County, Texas Docket ID NRC-2016-0231
Submitted to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff: WCS_CISF_EIS@nrc.gov.
COMMENTS:
The Native Community Action Council recommends the No-Action Alternative because the proposed action is illegal since the Nuclear Regulatory Commission makes an unconstitutional assumption of a proposed permanent repository at Yucca Mountain where the Treaty of Ruby Valley (Consolidated Treaty Series Vol. 127 (1863) is in full force and effect, thereby controlling any matter touching Shoshone country at Yucca Mountain.
The proposed Yucca Mountain site is unconstitutional and therefore illegal under law.
July 16, 2020
Uranium leave it in the ground! Global online launch of first Uranium Atlas with Western Shoshone, Navajo and more
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| The first atomic bomb blast in July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, |
Leave uranium in the ground!
Global Online Launch of the first Uranium Atlas
Watch online at 1 pm Eastern time, July 16, 2020.
The Uranium Atlas tells the global story of uranium through maps, graphics and narratives covering every phase of the uranium fuel chain. The raw material of the Atomic Age was or is mostly mined in African countries, Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada, and the consequences for the inhabitants of these mining areas have been fatal from the very beginning. The victims of global nuclear colonialism are mostly Indigenous peoples whose voices remain unheard.
July 16 is seared in the memory of New Mexicans: On July 16, 1945, at 5:30 in the morning, scientists from Los Alamos detonated Trinity, the first atomic bomb, in the White Sands desert. On July 16, 1979, at 5:30 in the morning, the tailings dam of the Church Rock uranium mill broke, contaminating the drinking water of the Diné (Navajo) people.
We dedicate the launch of the Uranium Atlas to all the victims of July 16.
May 5, 2020
'Protecting Sacred Western Shoshone Land from Nuclear Disposal' Photos by Bad Bear
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Photos by Western Shoshone Photojournalist Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson Censored News |
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| Chief Johnnie Bobb on the Yomba Nation. |
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The Sacred Walk and Run to the Nuclear Test Site which was planned to follow the Ceremony was canceled this year due to the coronavirus.
October 14, 2019
Western Shoshone 'Standing Strong' Photos by Bad Bear
Standing Strong for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. Photo by Western Shoshone Photojournalist Carl Bad Bear Sampson.
Western Shoshone Pine Nut Gathering Yomba blessing of the pine nuts of the earth and exercise or Sovereignty 1863 Ruby Valley Treaty.
Western Shoshone gathered with Alice Kawich Hooper on Oct. 5, 2019, in Yomba for the 'Duvah' picking in the Shoshone Mountains.
Thank you Bad Bear and the Yomba community for sharing your photos and good words with Censored News.
September 26, 2019
Best of Censored News: Provocative and Relentless Voices from the Ground
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| Robert Free with delegation in Venezuela. |
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
As we begin our 14th year at Censored News, we share with you some of the most extraordinary news that has come our way. It is good to go through these old stories, because not only are the details often forgotten, but so is the perspective, a way of seeing the world. Here are a few highlights from Censored News.
February 26, 2018
Ward Valley Spiritual Gathering Photos by Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone
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| Photos by Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone 20th Annual Ward Valley 'Ground Zerio' Spiritual Gathering "Today, off Water Road 20 miles from the Colorado River, one hundred people gathered, most were tribal members of the Lower Colorado River Tribes, to renew their inter-generational commitment to protect and defend Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump," said Mr. Ian Zabarte |
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Photos copyright Ian Zabarte
February 17, 2018
Celebrating Victory at Ward Valley: Western Shoshone Corbin Harney 'Sing to the Water'
(Photo 1) Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone, Wally Antone, Quechan and Llewellyn Barrackman Fort Mojave. (Photo 2) Curly Has Two Feathers Walks Alone, Navajo leading the morning circle. Curly was our firekeeper. (Photo 3) Bird Singers and Dancers from Fort Mojave. (Photo 4) Group picture of the people that were camped at Ground Zero. -- Photos by Molly Johnson
Twenty years ago, the Occupation of Ward Valley halted a proposed nuclear waste dump on sacred land, home to the Desert Tortoise. The upcoming celebration will recall this victory and those who stood for the land, air and water. We remember the words of Western Shoshone Spiritual leader Corbin Harney.
Corbin Harney: 'Sing to the Water'
The Water Song
PBS
My people always have said to me from the beginning of my life, as I remember, to do, to take care of what’s out here, what’s out there on the land. All those things, we have to have ceremonies for. Those are the reasons why I’ve been trying to teach my people, not only my people but the people that survive on all this land. To teach them we have to really start talking to nature. Nature's Way of life is the only way we are going to survive here.
My name’s Corbin Harney. I was born in Idaho, and raised in Idaho and Nevada both. Roamed the country.
“Naraborochi”, that’s in my words, that’s water. Water is something that’s really, we have to appreciate. Those are the reasons why we have to sing about those things, cause if it wasn’t for water, there would be no life on this earth. We have to sing to ‘em, sing to the life of the water, the spirit of the water and so forth. So the water can be happier, the water can continue to flow. We have to make that water spirit at least as happy as can be.
I’m asking the water to continue to flow over the land to give water to all living things.
That’s singing about all the living things on this—that all we are is trickling over our mother earth. “Banoso”, in my language, that’s our mother. Our mother is the one that we’re circling on, everything on this earth. That’s what it’s about, “wanonoawatee”, “wanososhy”, we all are rotating with our mother. So that’s what it is. So everything appreciates each other, we’re supposed to. Appreciating each other, working together, doing things together, living on this mother earth together. We have to appreciate it. It’s really important.
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In 1998, a historic 113-day occupation of the proposed dumpsite by the Five River Tribes (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah, and Colorado River Indian Tribes) along with environmental activist were assembled at the site to fight and stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump. The 113-day occupation prevented federal police from entering the site as well as prevented the test drilling for the dump that would have desecrated the sacred land of Ward Valley. The occupation ended in victory when the U.S. Department of the Interior rescinded the eviction notice and canceled test drilling. On November 2, 1999, the Interior Department terminated all actions regarding the Ward Valley dump proposal, which officially ended the extensive conflict.
The proposed dump, which would have been in the center of eight wilderness areas, amidst of critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise, enclosed by the pristine golden canyons and cave paintings of the Old Woman Mountains, and east of the foothills of the Stepladder Mountains that remain covered in a forest of cholla cacti was utterly eliminated by the coordinated effort of dedicated Native and non-native people joined together for the love of Mother Earth. -- Molly Johnson, Censored News
This series at Censored News:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/02/laguna-pueblo-dorothy-purley-exposed.html
This series at Censored News:
The Rhythmic Journey Home: Birdsingers ensured victory at Ward Valley
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-rhythmic-journey-home-birdsingers.html
Mojave Steve Lopez: Ward Valley halted Nuclear Genocide, Poisoning of Colorado River
The Desert Tortoise on Sacred Land, Celebrating the 20-Year Victory at Ward Valley
Celebrating Victory at Ward Valley: Corbin Harney 'Sing to the Water'
Laguna Pueblo Dorothy Purley Exposed Nuclear Holocaust on Native Lands. Featured in widely-censored Trespassing film to be shown at Ward Valley Celebration, Feb. 23-24, 2018.
Article copyright Brenda Norrell
June 3, 2017
Longest Walk 5 Walks into Illinois -- Photos by Bad Bear
The Oglala Commemoration Committee met with Long Walkers and presented walkers with a flag in Illinois. (Photo Lisa Zahner Reinhold)
Photos below by Bad Bear
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Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl Bad Bear Sampson.
Longest Walk 5 walked into Mount Vernon, Illinois, in its coast to coast walk across this land to carry the message of halting domestic violence and drug abuse.
May 2, 2016
Bad Bear's Photos 'Western Shoshone Walk and Run 2016'
Western Shoshone Walk and Run 2016
Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson
Western Shoshone long walker and photojournalist
"They are in Tonopah now and continue on Highway 95 to Yucca Mountain, ending at Mercury Peace Camp. They will be camping along the road."
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| Long walker and photojournalist Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone Photos copyright Carl Sampson, Censored News |
Long walker and photojournalist Bad Bear has documented for Censored News the Longest Walk 2 northern route, Longest Walk 3 and Longest Walk 4, while walking across America. Bad Bear has also shared his photos from protests for Leonard Peltier and other walks in defense of sacred land.
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