Dineh Walkers Honor Horse Nation, Receive Shiprock Support

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS

Dineh Walkers against Fracking, Journey for our Existence, is honoring the Horse Nation as they walk to the Four Sacred Mountains to protect the land, water and air from fracking. 

Celebrating the Dineh walkers who walk in the "Spirit of our Relatives," the Shiprock, N.M., Chapter passed a resolution supporting the walkers and in solidarity to protect the environment. Shiprock Chapter celebrated the efforts of the walkers as they brave the elements, as did their ancestors on the forced Longest Walk. (See below.)

On Monday, the Dineh walkers made it to Barrego Pass.

The walkers said Dineh horses have been removed as fracking threatens the area on the Navajo Nation.

"Horses joined us in our journey yesterday in the Eastern Agency of Navajo. Horses were forcibly removed and vanished despite local residents desperate and thorough attempts to retrieve their livestock. This happened directly before families were approached to sign fracking contracts. It is necessary that we connect the dots here. Nihígaal bee iiná walk is also dedicated to these relatives of ours, the horse nation. We have been making offerings and singing to them along the walk. They walk with us, keep our four legged relatives in your prayers."

On Sunday, walkers said: "Best way to find us today and tomorrow is by taking Prewitt exit off of I-40 (exit 63) head north. Make a right on old Route 66 (East). In one mile head north on Navajo Route 48 for 20 miles until you get to Barrego Pass. We will be taking sweat at the Anderson Residence and will be camped out in Star Pond on top of mesa. Join us if you can. We are getting ready for our decent up Tsodziil." 

Below, walkers are joined by Dineh on horseback.

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* DINEH WALKERS DIE HET VOLK VAN DE PAARDEN HULDIGEN KRIJGEN STEUN VAN SHIPROCK

Door: Brenda Norrell, Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be

Dineh Walkers tegen fracking, Journey for our Existence, huldigen de Horse Nation terwijl ze naar de Vier Sacred Mounains stappen om het land, water en lucht te beschermen tegen fracking.

Om de Dineh Walkers te steunen heeft de Shiprock N.M. Chapter een resolutie ingediend tot steun voor de stappers en in solidariteit met de bescherming van het milieu.

Shiprock Chapter bracht hulde aan de inspanningen die de Walkers leveren en moedig de elementen trotseren, net zoals hun voorouders deden op de gedwongen Longest Walk.

Maandag waren de Dineh Walkers op weg naar Barrego Pas.

De Walkers zeiden dat de Dineh paarden verjaagd werden omdat ze de fracking op het land van het Navajo volk in de weg liepen..

“ Paarden vergezelden ons gisteren op onze reis in de ‘Eastern Agency of Navajo’. Paarden werden met geweld verwijderd en verdwenen ondanks de wanhopige pogingen van het Navajo volk om hun kudde terug te brengen. Dit gebeurde vlak voor families benaderd werden om fracking contracten te ondertekenen.

Het verband in deze is belangrijk. De mars van de Nihígaal bee iiná is ook opgedragen aan deze verwanten van ons, het volk van de paarden.

Wij hebben geofferd en gezongen voor hen tijdens de mars. Zij stappen samen met ons, gedenk onze vierbenige verwanten.”

Zondag deden de walkers een oproep aan de mensen die hun solidariteit willen komen betuigen in de Barrego Pass.

“Wij zullen een zweethut doen bij de Anderson Residence en ons kamp opslaan in Star Point op de top van mesa.

Dineh te paard voegden zich bij de Walkers

More Femicide Victims Identified from Border Graveyard

More Femicide Victims Identified from Border Graveyard
By Frontera NorteSur
Censored News
January 25, 2015

Women's/Human Rights News
The parents of Esmeralda Castillo Rincon recently heard sad news about their long-disappeared daughter. The 14-year-old had been missing from her Ciudad Juarez home since 2009, and the parents had waged a long campaign demanding her safe return.

On January 16, however, the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office (FGECH) notified Jose Luis Castillo and his wife, Martha Rincon, that Esmeralda's remains were among those of other female murder victims recovered from the Navajo Arroyo in the Juarez Valley bordering the United States in 2012 and 2013.

San Carlos Apache Nation Spiritual Gathering Oak Flat Feb. 5 -- 8, 2015

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Mohawk Nation News: CUBA SI! YANKEE NO!

CUBA SI! YANKEE NO!

Posted on January 23, 2015

Please post and distribute. Nia:wen.

MNN. Jan. 23, 2015. In December 1959 a group of McGill University students were sitting in the university cafeteria. We were admiring Life Magazine cover of Fidel Castro. One of the students, a reporter for the McGill Daily, said, “I’d like to go to Cuba and interview him!”. We all said, “We’ll go with you”.

Soon we were driving to Florida. One guy had a relative in Miami. We asked to stay over. When he found out where we were going, he threw us out of the house! We slept in the car on the beach. The next day we caught a cheap flight to Havana.

We stayed at the formerly luxurious Havana Hilton Hotel & Casino which was turned into a student’s residence. It was packed with young people from Central and South America. Just us from Canada. None from the US that we saw.

Every evening Fidel Castro and some of his men would come into the lobby and talk to us. He regaled us with stories of the revolution. Fidel kept his promise to his people that he would educate them and give them the best medical care in the world. He had a profound affect on us. Cubans showed that people can stand up and gain their freedom. They kicked out the corporate mob that ran Cuba and had made everybody into slaves.

Bearded cigar smoking, camo-dressed revolutionaries drove us around in limos. Our friend interviewed and became friends with Fidel.

A few days later began the celebration of the year since the revolutionaries had rolled into Havana, kicking out the crooks and arresting those who wouldn’t obey the anti-banker rules. Many traitors were jailed or dispersed. Some were floating on rafts across the channel to Miami. Huge mansions and luxuries were left behind. They could only take what they wore. We saw a lot of jewelry clad autocrats bumming rides to Miami.

Locals were streaming in from the country-side. Poverty of the people was incredible. We had to wait in long lineups for food like everybody else. Fidel was going to speak soon. The prisoners were let out to sit on top of the walls to listen to him. He spoke for eight hours non-stop.

After a week, another person and I decided to return to the mainland. We took a taxi and waited for hours on the road to the airport. It was hopeless. The single PanAm flight from Venezuela made one stop in Havana, picked up passengers and went on to Miami. After waiting for hours, we finally returned to the hotel to get some help. We were told, “You could end up in Cuba for some time, unless you have connections!”

Our backup plan was to catch a ride with the boat people.

The McGill Daily reporter said he might be able to help us. Two days later a camo dressed military man picked us up in a huge fancy limousine. He drove us directly through a back road to the airport. The airport was jammed with people trying to get out, ready to pay anything to get a seat on the plane. We were escorted and got on the flight.

Now that relations between the US and Cuba have been normalized, the Cubans in Miami could return and start working in the sugarcane fields or resorts like everybody else. They won’t get back their ill gotten gains they left behind. Everything’s been nationalized and belongs to everybody. We knew in 1959 that the days were numbered for these carpetbaggers who sell out their people.

As Richie Valens reminds us “Para bailar la bamba. Para bailar la bamba. Se necesita una  poca de gracia. ba ba bomba!”

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