Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 20, 2025

Ophelia Rivas: 'Build your fires and burn your medicines' for Peltier's return home

 


Build your fires and burn your medicines for Peltier's return home

By Ophelia Rivas, O'odham VOICE Against the WALL

In solidarity to all first peoples of Turtle Island.

Leonard Peltier is not free yet, I urge you to build your fires and burn your medicines for absolute protection for Leonard until he is safely sitting in front of his fire on his homelands.

We shall not ever trust the people that tortured him all these years.

Words on paper historically have not been honored.





Mohawk Nation News 'Freedom'


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January 18, 2025

Biden Awards Pope 'Medal of Freedom' -- Both Biden and Pope Responsible for Genocide


Indigenous women carrying cradleboards were asked to leave before Pope Francis entered a meeting of residential school survivors at the archbishop's residence in Quebec City on July 29, 2022. Jonel Beauvais, a Kanien'kehá:ka Wolf Clan member from Akwesasne, said that while she was able to stay, she had to go to the back of the room. "They said that they only wanted survivors and not their supporters."

Biden Awards Pope 'Medal of Freedom' -- Both Biden and Pope Responsible for Genocide

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 18, 2025

President Biden awarded Pope Francis the Medal of Freedom with Distinction, with no mention of the genocide that the Catholic Church committed in residential schools and boarding schools.

"The award was for genocide, not freedom," Mark Maracle of the Mohawk Warrior Society told Censored News.

Biden, now responsible for sending weapons to Israel for war crimes and genocide in Palestine, awarded Pope Francis the Medal of Freedom with Distinction for "exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace."