Navajo Council Speaker Morgan continues strong support for San Francisco Peaks
PASADENA, Calif. – On Dec. 11, 2007, the fate of Doko’oosliid (The San Francisco Peaks) will come before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena , CA . The Courts granted the U.S. Forest Service and an Arizona ski resort the opportunity to challenge a recent decision that favored Native American tribes, Navajo Council Speaker Lawrence Morgan said in a press statement today.
Speaker Morgan said, “It is very unfortunate that this case is being reconsidered. As Navajo people, as Diné people, we all consider our mountain to the west, Doko’oosliid (The San Francisco Peaks) very sacred.”
“As I traveled here to Pasadena , I could not help but reflect upon a song that is ever so popular entitled ‘ America the Beautiful,’” Speaker Morgan said. “‘America the Beautiful’ is reflective of our cause today – a cause to protect our sacred sites. The song ‘ America the Beautiful’ was written by Katherine Lee Bates in 1904 and has been an American theme ever since. Morgan explained that the lyrics remind him of Doko’oosliid. When people were singing about liberty then, they were seeking religious freedom. This is similar to the challenges that we face as Indian Nations today.
"Many non-Indians arrived here in the Americas , because of the religious persecution that they were experiencing. Their mass exodus from the old world to the new world represents their desire to seek freedom to worship who they want, what they want, where they want, when they want, and how they want. These same privileges should be afforded to the First Americans. Their pilgrimage then is no different then our fight to sustain our way of life today.
Read Speaker Morgan's press statement ...
http://www.navajo.org/News%20Releases/Joshua%20Lavar%20Butler/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20120907%20Follow%20up%20to%20Hawaii%20Trip.pdf
December 11, 2007
American Indian Airwaves, Dec. 12, 2007
Listen live or in online archives:
"UC Berkeley Revisited, Sacred Sites and Human Rights, and DHS' 30-day Ultimatum to Relocation"Part 1: UC Berkeley Revisited: Arrest and Struggle for the Ancestors
Lalo Franco (Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Nation), First Nation Representative of the Native American NAGPRA Coalition (NANC) ( http://nagpra-ucb-faq.blogspot.com/ ) provides us with an update on the University of California, Berkeley's (UCB) Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology continued engagement of exiling of the second largest collection of indigenous ancestors and sacred objects in the United States, institutionalized racism, and the NANC October 5th, 2007 demonstration. Part 2: Sounds from the Panel Discussion on Sacred Places and Human Rights Cindi Alvitre (Tongva Nation) Cindi Alvitre discussed the continuous daily struggles of the Tongva Nation, the first people of Los Angeles County, and Q'Orianka Kilchner discussed the plight and struggle of the Peruvian indigenous peoples fight against Globalization, oil and mine resources companies rape of mother earth, ecocide, and genocide. Part 3: Forced Relocation: the Continuing Saga of the Militarization of the Texas-Mexico Border, Dr. Elosia Garcia Tamez (Lipan Apache Nation). From the El Calaboz region in Texas, Elosia discusses Michael Chertoff's, Department of Homeland Security, recent 30-day ultimatum to binational indigenous peoples living along the Texas-Mexico border to voluntarily "relocate" or be "relocated."
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, and by Internet with Real Media Player, Winamp, & Itunes at http://www.kpfk.org/SPECIAL NOTICE: weekly shows can now be heard on the KPFK web site under "audio archives" located on the left. Scroll down and click on American Indian Airwaves. http://www.myspace.com/aiairwaves
"UC Berkeley Revisited, Sacred Sites and Human Rights, and DHS' 30-day Ultimatum to Relocation"Part 1: UC Berkeley Revisited: Arrest and Struggle for the Ancestors
Lalo Franco (Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Nation), First Nation Representative of the Native American NAGPRA Coalition (NANC) ( http://nagpra-ucb-faq.blogspot.com/ ) provides us with an update on the University of California, Berkeley's (UCB) Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology continued engagement of exiling of the second largest collection of indigenous ancestors and sacred objects in the United States, institutionalized racism, and the NANC October 5th, 2007 demonstration. Part 2: Sounds from the Panel Discussion on Sacred Places and Human Rights Cindi Alvitre (Tongva Nation) Cindi Alvitre discussed the continuous daily struggles of the Tongva Nation, the first people of Los Angeles County, and Q'Orianka Kilchner discussed the plight and struggle of the Peruvian indigenous peoples fight against Globalization, oil and mine resources companies rape of mother earth, ecocide, and genocide. Part 3: Forced Relocation: the Continuing Saga of the Militarization of the Texas-Mexico Border, Dr. Elosia Garcia Tamez (Lipan Apache Nation). From the El Calaboz region in Texas, Elosia discusses Michael Chertoff's, Department of Homeland Security, recent 30-day ultimatum to binational indigenous peoples living along the Texas-Mexico border to voluntarily "relocate" or be "relocated."
American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, and by Internet with Real Media Player, Winamp, & Itunes at http://www.kpfk.org/SPECIAL NOTICE: weekly shows can now be heard on the KPFK web site under "audio archives" located on the left. Scroll down and click on American Indian Airwaves. http://www.myspace.com/aiairwaves
December 10, 2007
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
‘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."
Read article ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/mohawks-us-flogging-old-washington-mule.html
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."
Read article ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/mohawks-us-flogging-old-washington-mule.html
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 Nati
ons 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] wh
ich 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.
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 Nati
ons 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] wh
ich 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.Read more ...
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/
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/
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