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January 12, 2012

WINONA LADUKE Anishinabaweg (http://www.niijiiradio.com/ from the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Winona is the Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project the Parent Organization of Niijii Broadcasting and Niijii Radio. Niijii in Ojibwe means friend. Over the past decade, the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) has approached the idea of creating an independent media platform for the White Earth Reservation and surrounding region to allow for community-based programming that provides valuable information and education to its friends and listeners.

SOPHIE GRIGS (http://www.survivalinternational.org/) British newspaper The Observer has revealed evidence of police involvement in ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands.The scandal, first exposed by Survival in 2010, involves tourists using an illegal road to enter the reserve of the Jarawa tribe. Tour companies and cab drivers ‘attract’ the Jarawa with biscuits and sweets. AND also in BRAZIL Loggers have invaded the Amazon home of uncontacted Awá Indians, one of whom has reportedly been ‘burned alive’

DR. ROBERTO CINTLI RODRIQUEZ (http://drcintli.blogspot.com/) US Human Rights Network condemns discriminatory ruling against Ethnic Studies in Arizona and calls on the government to protect human rights to culture, identity, and self-determination. The US Human Rights Network strongly condemns the December 27th, 2011 ruling of Arizona Administrative Judge Lewis Kowal restricting the teaching of Ethnic Studies in the Tuscan Unified School District and throughout the state. Judge Kowal’s decision is a reaffirmation of HB 2281, a discriminatory law passed by the Arizona legislature in 2010 that forbids the teaching ethnic studies and the recognition of the ethnic, racial, or national heritage of the students.

Wicked System - Fundamental Sound
Natural Mystic - Luka Bloom
Suavecito - Malo

January 5, 2012

KAHENTINETHA HORNE of The Kanion'ke:haka/Mohawk Nation (http://www.mohawknationnews.com/) is a member of the Rotino'shonni:onwe/Iroquois Confederacy.

What are we going to do? Is the proverbial question being asked when the financial collapse is deepened beyond repair? Although many people have an idea of gloom and doom - the reality for the awakened Indigenous peoples is to know the world is not coming to an end. The Sky Is Not Falling. It’s continuing. We’re been lead to think that we are heading into a trap to be devoured if we don’t submit. Are they ready to live under the rules of nature? Kahentinetha gives us a perspective of the movement and relationship to the politics, economics and governments (u.s. and can.) and their treatment of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

OFELIA RIVAS of the Tohono O'odham Nation (www.solidarity-project.org) her struggles with the current technology, mining and desecretion of their lands along the 2,000 mile border wall of the U.S. and Mexico. Her general awareness of being under duress because of her views from her own people, the government and the great militarization of the lands.

http://www.solidarity-project.org/
Masters of War - Pearl Jam
Exodus - Bob Marley

O'otham: A March For Our Ancestors

A March For Our Ancestors


January 31st through February 3th

District 7 to Sacaton’s Veteran’s Park

Shap Kaij Hahajun,

This is notice to all O’othham brothers and sisters that after many years of attempting to work in a respectful manner with the tribal government of Gila River, we who support our traditional teachings of properly caring for and respecting our Huhugam Ancestors, have exhausted all our attempts at asking the tribal government show proper respect to our Huhugam by immediately reburying their remains.

Right now there are at least 1,200 Huhugam remains locked in a storage room under control of the tribal government. The tribe has allowed this disrespect to continue, refusing to release the remains for reburial. Many attempts by grassroots and tribal groups and individual O’othham have not convinced the tribe to release the remains to be respectfully reburied.

For years the tribal government has been asked that our Huhugam Ancestors be properly respected and reburied in a timely manner. To this day, the tribe refuses to do this.

As O'othham, we have the right to have a tribe that shows respect to our Ancestors and to us. When this is not done, it causes negative things to happen in our lands, and this is what is taking place. We need to regain our balance and we need to have our Ancestors reburied immediately.

After years of hoping the tribal government would show respect to our Ancestors, the time has come for a different approach. It has been decided to let all our O’othham relatives know that your Ancestors, your family members, who are related to us all, are being held hostage by the tribal government. This is one of the most disrespectful acts that can be done to you and your Relatives.

What you can do: Take care of and protect your O’othham brothers and sisters and your homeland; respect the elders and children; respect yourself; get your O’othham brothers and sisters together and prepare for the march; let your tribal leaders know that you do not like how the tribe is disrespecting our Huhugam; tell others about how the tribe is disrespecting our Ancestors; tell the world you will not stand for this disrespect of us and our Ancestors.

This March for our Ancestors will travel from Piipash Ki'ihhim (District 7) to Ge'e Kih Ki'ihhim (Sacaton, District 3). The distance is approximately 45 miles and will take about four days.

This will be a major sacrifice on behalf of our Ancestors, but it is necessary in order for the tribe to see we demand our Ancestors' remains be immediately reburied.

This gathering will require much effort on your part and much preparation. It is a community led gathering which seeks only to bring respect to our Ancestors.

All relatives from the O'othham Hehemajkam (Nations) are welcome and needed to participate in this march in solidarity for our common Huhugam Ancestors. O'othham from Tohono, from Ak Chin, from Akimel, and from Onk Akimel will participate in this important gathering.

We must join together and stop this disrespect taking place!

Let us make the earth tremble with our songs of goodness and respect on behalf of our Ancestors! This is why you have been placed here at this time! Join us and we will become strong again! Bring your children so they may begin to learn the way we respect and care for one another! Bring your elders so they may teach us how to care for one another!

Tell your relatives and those who support us to get ready for this journey of strength and goodness!

Your time has arrived, take hold of your fears and embrace the goodness that our Huhugam offer to you!

Prepare your heart, your children, your elders and your spirit for this beautifully powerful gathering of O'othham strength!

Schedule for the March:Schedule for the March

Tuesday, January 31: Start from District 7 Service Center or Recreation area and camp at the Lone Butte Treatment Center

Distance: 15 miles

Wednesday, February 1: Start from Lone Butte Treatment Center and camp at "M" Mountain area

Distance: 7 miles

Thursday, February 2: Start from "M" Mountain area and camp at District 5 Veterans Building

Distance: 6 miles

Friday, February 3: Start from District 5 Veterans Building to Sacaton Veterans Park

Distance: 8 miles

For more information, donate supplies or volunteer, contact oothham@yahoo.com, or Jiivik Siiki on Facebook, or https://www.facebook.com/events/305840166113258

Dangerous Navajo power plant emissions documented in EPA interactive map

Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz.,

on the Navajo Nation, is a major source of

greenhouse gases in the US. Navajos recently

protested the operator, the Salt River Project,

during protests of ALEC, the American

Legislative Exchange Council.

Navajo coal-fired power plants, oil and gas industry, poisoning Navajo atmosphere, major source of greenhouse gases

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

The US EPA has released an interactive map showing the greenhouse gas emissions from the Navajo Nation’s three power plants and other poisonous large facilities in Indian country.

The dangerous toxins released by Navajo power plants at the Navajo Generating Station at Page, Ariz, and the Four Corners Generating Station and San Juan Generating Station in northwest New Mexico, are documented on the map.

There are other dangerous toxic releases on Navajoland that people are unaware of. These include the El Paso Natural Gas station in St. Michaels near the Navajo capitol of Window Rock, Ariz., and gas emissions in the Bloomfield, N.M., area. The Bloomfield area is inundated with oil and gas drilling, and power plant emissions. This area is the sacred Place of Origin, Dinetah, of Navajos.

The EPA map reveals carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and methane emissions. The graphs reveal the Navajo power plants, and other power plants in the US, are responsible for the largest portion of greenhouse gases.

On the Navajo Nation, there have been no studies which analyze the combined health dangers to Navajos of coal mines, power plants, gas plumes, toxic dumping and the radioactive uranium mine tailings from the Cold War. These multiple health dangers are concentrated in the Four Corners area and the region of Page, Monument Valley and Black Mesa near the Arizona and Utah border. Another area of toxic contamination is the Gallup, N.M., region due to the current oil and gas releases, and the radiation that flowed down the Rio Puero after the Church Rock, N.M. uranium tailings spill.

(L) Riley, Choctaw, with Louise Benally, Navajo,
at ethnic studies rally in Tucson.

Louise Benally, Navajo resisting relocation at Big Mountain, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation urged Navajos and their supporters to bring a halt to the massive coal fired power plant industry responsible for disease, the depletion of the aquifers and destroying the quality of life for Navajos.

"It is to time to slay the beast," Benally told those gathering in Tucson on Tuesday, rallying to save ethnic studies. Benally said the same corporate beast responsible for the racism and imperialism that now forbids Mexican American studies in Arizona, is the same corporate beast which targets Navajos with genocidal coal mining, power plants and oil and gas drilling.

The interactive map reveals the dangerous emissions in and around Indian country throughout the United States.
EPA interactive map:
http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do

LISTEN Dineh Louise Benally Ethnic Studies

Riley, Choctaw, and Louise Benally, Dineh, at ethnic studies
rally in Tucson on Jan. 10, 2012. Photo Brenda Norrell Censored News

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

TUCSON -- Listen to Louise Benally, Dineh resisting relocation at Big Mountain. Benally joins Mexican American Studies students, and Riley, Choctaw, to speak out against the racism, oppression and imperialism that has led Arizona to forbid ethnic studies. Students speak out on how Mexican American Studies instilled pride in who they are.
The broadcast includes an interview with one of the youths who locked down and was arrested at Salt River Project recently during the ALEC protest in Phoenix. The youths are supporting Navajos protesting the coal-fired power plant Navajo Generating Station, on Navajoland at Page, Ariz. The American Legislative Exchange Council is comprised of corporate profiteers who exploit Indian lands, profiteer from private prisons and the abuse of migrants and coopt Arizona legislators with their cash.
Recorded live by Censored News in Tucson.

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