Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 23, 2013

Longest Walk 4 arrives in Eureka Nevada over snowy mountain









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Today's photos of Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson. Thank you for sharing with Censored News! Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Sharon Heta, Maori from New Zealand, in top photo, has been on the walk since DC with her husband Michael Lane. They were joined by their twin daughters. The family also walked on Long Walk 2 northern route in 2008. With Sharon is Terri Szynkowski is Southern Cheyenne/Oklahoma Choctaw and was on the original 1978 Longest Walk when she was 10 years old. 

That's a lot of woman power!

The walk is now in its final month of the five month walk from DC, and returning the sacred staffs to Alcatraz. The walkers will walk on through Shoshone country, on to Paiute lands, then on to Indian Nations in the Carson City area, before crossing the Sierra Nevadas into California. After Sacramento, the walkers arrive in Alcatraz on Dec. 21, with a ceremony on Dec. 22, 2013.

November 22, 2013

Algonquin Roadblock: Halt social services from removing children



ROADBLOCK to stop Quebec Social Services from wrongly seizing any more Native children from the Algonquin community of Lac Simon. The fast continues until Social Services meets to discuss their policies of removing children from families. Parents say policies are unnecessary and destructive. Support page: http://lakota.cc/17q3xw6 News article (in French): http://lakota.cc/1c2S1Xq

Sovereignty! Shoshones lead Longest Walk 4 through cold toward Alcatraz!










The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz continues carrying the staffs today west to Alcatraz. Walkers headed out this morning after a snowfall on Thursday. They are walking west of Ely Shoshone, Nevada. Photos by Western Shoshone long walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, thank you for sharing with Censored News!
www.returntoalcatraz.com

Film Trailer 'Black Mesa Film'




Black Mesa Film

Read more about this film work in progress, and the work of Bahe Katenay of Big Mountain and the filmmakers at: http://blackmesafilm.com/

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
This is what education should become in the future, sharing the voices of Dine' grassroots people who know the real story of Black Mesa, and the real history of Peabody Coal, corrupt politicians, the dirty coal industry, and how it resulted in Navajo relocation.
This is also what the media should become, uncensored and reporting the voices of truth.
Bahe Katenay was one of those censored by Indian Country Today, before I was terminated as a staff reporter. In that interview, Bahe spoke about the oil and gas drilling in Dinetah, the sacred place of origin, and the role of the "puppet" Navajo Nation Council, which signs energy leases, is coopted by the US government and threatens future generations of Navajos with water rights loss, pollution from dirty coal power plants, and destruction of the earth.
In the interview censored by Indian Country Today concerning those oil and gas leases, Bahe Katenay said, "I am also saddened when I think that, because these lands were given away for profit, the rest of our sacred lands everywhere are being desecrated, today: Mount Taylor, San Francisco Mountains, and Big Mountain.” 
Read more:
http://bsnorrell.tripod.com/id104.html