Mohawks: US flogging old Washington mule in Latin America

"They referred to the U.S. relationship with Hugo Chavez as 'two scorpions in a bottle … no matter who bites first, both will die.'"

‘W.O.L.A.’ FLOGGING “OLD WASHINGTON MULE” IN ‘LATIN’ AMERICA

Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
Dec. 18th, 2007
NEW YORK -- Late last Wednesday night a call came from Akwesasne, “What’re you doing?” The response was, “Nothing!” The next question was, “Wanna go down to New York City for a meeting?” The answer was, “Sure!” The next morning two Mohawks, one from Kahnawake and another from Kanehsatake, met up with two other Mohawks from Akwesasne in Upstate New York for the long drive in the pick up truck to the big Apple. The meeting was across from the Empire State Building. WOLA is the “Washington Office on Latin America."
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Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was recently the guest of President Hugo Chavez and Indigenous leaders in Venezuela.

Photo Kahentinetha Horn at the Indigenous Peoples Border Summit of the Americas 2007 on Tohono O'odham land/by Brenda Norrell

Indigenous barred from UN Climate Negotiations in Bali

Indigenous Peoples Protest UNFCCC Indigenous Peoples shut out of Climate Change Negotiations

By Indigenous Environment Network

PHOTOS BY: Benjamin Powless, Mohawk, Six Nations, Ontario, Canada, IEN Indigenous Youth Network representative (Double click on photos to enlarge)

NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their systematic exclusion from the UN meeting.
Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from entering the meeting between UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and civil society representatives, despite the fact that the indigenous delegation was invited to attend. This act is representative of the systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples in the UNFCCC process.
"There is no seat or name plate for indigenous peoples in the plenary, nor for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the highest level body in the United Nations that addresses indigenous peoples rights," stated Hubertus Samangun, the Focal Point of the Indigenous Peoples delegation to the UNFCCC and the Focal Point for English Speaking Indigenous Peoples of the Global Forest Coalition.
"Indigenous peoples are not only marginalized from the discussion, but there is virtually no mention of indigenous peoples in the more that 5 million words of UNFCCC documents," argued Alfred Ilenre of the Edo People of Nigeria.
This is occurring despite the fact that indigenous peoples are suffering the most from climate change and climate change mitigation projects that directly impact their lands.
Indigenous peoples are here in Bali to denounce the false solutions to climate change proposed by the United Nations such as carbon trading, agrofuels and so-called "avoided deforestation" that devastate their lands and cause human rights violations.
"This process has become nothing but developed countries avoiding their responsibilities to cut emissions and pushing the responsibility onto developing countries," stated Fiu Mata'ese Elisara-Laula, of the O Le Siosiomaga Society of Samoa. "Projects like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries) sound very nice but they are trashing our indigenous lands. People are being relocated and even killed; my own people will soon be under water. That's why I call the money from the projects blood money," he added.
Marcial Arias of the Kuna People of Panama reminded the international community that indigenous peoples' right to participate was recognized in the Earth Summit in 1992 and reaffirmed this year. "On September 13th of this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [1] which enshrines the fundamental human rights of indigenous peoples to their lands, territories and environment. It is precisely these rights recognized by the UN itself that the UNFCCC is violating," he explained.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tom B.K. Goldtooth
Executive Director Indigenous Environmental Network PO Box 485 Bemidji, MN 56619 USA
Email: ien@igc.org Web: http://www.ienearth.org/

Coyote's slick uranium deal on Pine Ridge

Coyote is really chasing his tail on this one

By Brenda Norrell

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- The Native American Energy Group says it -- really, sincerely -- wants to build energy-efficient, prefabricated homes on Pine Ridge. But, the company also says the water is contaminated on Pine Ridge with uranium. So, the company would like to spend some millions to study this.

In return, the company -- which only has goodness in its heart according to its owners -- would have the "right of first refusal" to mine uranium.

Native American Energy would possibly use in-situ leach uranium mining on Pine Ridge -- the same type uranium mining that Navajos are fighting in New Mexico. Navajos say it would poison their drinking water in Crownpoint and Church Rock, N.M.

On Pine Ridge, the late Anna Mae Aquash, murdered 32 years ago, was among the first to expose the secret uranium deals.

Read more from South Dakota

Uranium rumors roil Oglala tribal politics
Diverse factions join in opposition to mining
By Bill Harlan

Rapid City Journal, Saturday, December 08, 2007

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/12/08/news/top/doc475b3e0a23e74199668374.txt

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Uranium Company Ordered to Vacate Lakota Lands - First Nations Land Claim Settled
By Kent Lebsock 11/2007

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com/2007/11/uranium-company-ordered-to-vacate.html

"... Earlier this year though a uranium mining company calling itself (for no apparent reason) Native American Energy Group (“NAEG”) descended on Pine Ridge and, through deceit and less than ethical maneuvering, started taking steps to expand uranium mining within reservation borders. Owe Aku took immediate action, going door-to-door on the reservation educating the people about uranium mining, and eventually filing an action in tribal court. Unlike NAEG, Owe Aku was not represented by attorneys but, as is the case with all our work, was represented by our own members. In this case, our Executive Director Debra White Plume, often found herself examining witnesses and testifying. Given the Court’s ruling, an excellent job was done using tribal and treaty law, as well as some international standards ..."

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Photo: Uranium mining runoff in the Black Hills in South Dakota/Credit: Defenders of the Black Hills' mining reform: http://www.mining-law-reform.info/Urgency.htm

'Free Burma' march in San Francisco

FREE BURMA: Recent peace walk in honor of the Monks in Burma, near Fisherman's Wharf in downtown San Francisco. Photo Brenda Norrell