Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

May 4, 2015

MOHAWK NATION NEWS 'ONGWE’HON:WEH RISE'

ONGWE’HON:WEH RISE

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MNN. May 3, 2015. “Sewatehonsiot”. Listen well. Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council Inc. HCCC at Six Nations dismantled the Haudenosaunee Development Institute inc. HDI. Dismissed were non-ongwe’hon:weh lawyer Aaron Detlor, Director Hazel Hill, their signatory who has no clan, and board member Brian Doolittle. HCCC and HDI are registered corporations.
Haudenosaunee & HDI meet to work out deal!
HCCC & HDI hogs meet at the trough to work things out!
A secret HDI deal signed with Samsung in 2013 and 2014. was leaked to clan families. In exchange for money, HDI Inc. agreed on behalf all Haudenosaunee member nations of the Iroquois Confederacy to waive our sovereign immunity and any other claim of traditional or treaty rights to lands that these projects are using.
Detlor explained, “We shouldn’t be treated any differently from the incorporated tribes in the states.” Though sovereign immunity doesn’t apply to us under Canadian law, HDI Inc. agreed to waive it for this agreement. Unnamed HDI Inc. board members, chiefs and clan mothers agreed to proceed. HCCC is a criminal organization that violates the Kaia’nereh:kowa. They plan to investigate themselves.
All cops are masons that oversee the worldwide matrix.
All cops are masons that oversee the worldwide matrix.
All INDIAN reservations are under military control. In Akwesasne Beverly Cook of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Inc. is ready to illegally sign away all Iroquois Confederacy lands. [518-358-2272] Mike Delisle of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Inc. is secretly illegally signing away huge tracts of our land. [450-632-7500, communications@mck.ca] Chief Otsi of Kanehsatake Mohawk Council Inc. has already completed the theft. [450-479-8373 meilleur.patricia@kanesatake.ca]
New York State lawyers working with NYS government and police were on all sides of the Ronnie Jones v. Parmley case. It was an elaborate real estate scam to steal New York State from the Iroquois. The governor’s office, politicians, lawyers Hoffman, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason and Agnello were conniving to sell our rights to all of New York State.
All their incorporated POW camps known as “INDIAN reservations” are surrounded by military-designed police operational response teams, ready to attack at a moments notice. The Onondaga chiefs Inc. near Syracuse have signed on with NY State. They have Wall Street where all the money is, UN for worldwide control, West Point to train the military for the empire. May 18, 1997, was one of these attacks.
kaia'nere:kowa says "face the wrath. Don't flee!"
kaia’nere:kowa says “face the wrath. Don’t flee!”
Dennis Blythe, NYSP investigator, was well briefed and knowledgeable about our rights. He infiltrated the Onondaga chiefs, got control of them and ran the operation. When the case was completely to our advantage, the lawyers dropped the case? 13 out of the 100 victims refused to take the financial settlement. Our lawyers dropped us. Now the collusion between legislative, judicial  and the police, all answering to the military, will be revealed.
What’s going on? US and Canada want to finish off the INDIANS. It’s their time to feel some of the pain they’ve been inflicting on others. The same 13 banking families run all ends of the corporation of the US and Canada.
This past weekend a true meeting of the real Rotinoshonni [Iroquois Confederacy] met in Ganiengeh. We pledged to stand the tree of peace back up.
“Now we stand as brothers. Let us plant this tree, and water its roots. It’ll go from sea to sea. Watch it grow to the sky and bask in its shade. It represents the unity we now have made”.
  
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Listen: Tiokasin Ghosthorse hosts First Voices Indigenous Radio

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota, Cheyenne River in South Dakota

FVIR Program Archives

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April 30, 2015
STEPHANY SEAY is the Media Coordinator of the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, the courts, and the policy arena to protect America's last wild, migratory buffalo. (www.buffalofieldcampaign.org)
MADONNA THUNDERHAWK Lakota People’s Law Project’s a veteran of every modern American Indian struggle, from the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island to the 1973 stand at Wounded Knee. (www.lakotalaw.org)
LYLA JUNE JOHNSTON is co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. Lyla is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. (www.sodizin.net)
Madonna Lyla

This Is Not America - David Bowie/The Pat Metheny Group
The Venus Project - The Children of Babylon
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April 16, 2015
MATT PETERSON and MALEK RASAMNY about their documentary film project "The Native and the Refugee: Reservations, Sovereignty and Autonomy," which investigates the experiences of Palestinian refugee camps and American Indian reservations and the similar struggles that exist between Native Americans and Palestinians. The second half-hour features social entrepreneur. www.facebook.com/thenativeandtherefugee
The Native and the Refugee
JANENE YAZZIE founder of Sixth World Solutions with her partner Kern Collymore, and several of her Navajo Nation colleagues, including BYRON HUSKON who are involved with watershed restoration and conservation on the Navajo Nation. www.sixth-world.com
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April 9, 2015
DANIEL KAUFMN is the Executive Director the Endangered Language Alliance in New York City. The Endangered Language Alliance is an independent non-profit and is the only organization in the world focused on the immense linguistic diversity of urban areas. Many of the New York area’s estimated 800 languages are highly endangered. ELA documents and describes under-described and endangered languages, educating a larger public and collaborating with communities.
Daniel was featured in a March 30 article in The New Yorker titled “A Loss for Words: Can a Dying Language be Saved” by Judith Thurman. She begins her article by stating: “The consequences of losing a language may not be understood before it’s too late.” Daniel has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. www.elalliance.org
RENE OSWALDO GONZALEZ PIZARRO (Mixe) Researcher for the Center for Studies and Development of Indigenous Languages of Oaxaca. www.serpienteoaxaca.blogspot.com
DanielMarieEmmanuel
EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE is a filmmaker, musician and composer. He has directed and produced numerous award-winning films and released three critically acclaimed albums. His work has been featured on National Geographic, PBS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, exhibited at The Smithsonian and screened at festivals worldwide about the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language.
Marie’s Dictionary - www.vimeo.com/105673207
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Cynthia Treis, Associate Producer
Loye Miller, Audio Editor

Ghost Dance - Robbie Robertson - Music for the Native Americans
Unbound - Robbie Robertson - Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
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April 2, 2015
KAMAHANA KEALOHA has been working as an organizer of a group of Kanaka Maoli representing several Hawaiian islands and a multi-ethnic group of supporters who are opposing the construction of a 30-meter telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea—also known as Mauna A Wakea—the most sacred place in the Hawaiian Islands for the Kanaka Maoli. The group, led by Lanakila Mangauil, a prominent cultural practitioner from Hawai’i Island, has formed a blockade at 9,000 feet above sea level at Mauna Kea. KAMAHANA is a cultural practitioner with family roots on Hawai’i Island.
“It’s 19 stories tall, which is like building a skyscraper on top of the mountain, a place that is being violated in many ways culturally, environmentally and spiritually. However, this struggle is about so much more. We are fighting against our erasure and ethnocide as well as the threat for all to our main water aquifer and endangered species conservation district.” (sacredmaunakea.wordpress.com)
Kamahana Keaholha Candyce Paul
CANDYCE PAUL Outreach Coordinator for Committee for Future Generations, a group of volunteers who got together to stand against the nuclear industry’s proposal to store high-level nuclear waste in northern Saskatchewan. They are also involved in making the uranium mining corporations and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission accountable for the long term health problems created by radiation and environmental damage as it is impacting on the mainly Dene, Cree and Metis people who live and work closest to the uranium mines and all those affected wherever the nuclear industry, both power generating and military, everywhere the uranium is used. She is a mother and an educator, a protector, not an environmentalist nor an activist, responding to a serious threat to ALL future generations (committeeforfuturegenerations.wordpress.com)

What's Going On - Los Lobos Live at the Fillmore
We Are All Related - The Science Symphony
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March 26, 2015
UKUMBWA SAUTIis an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in west Africa and is a diviner, numerologist and spiritual counselor. He also works as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Media Studies. Ukumbwa has created a line of research and critique called "Indigeny & Energetics," some of the perspectives of which reside on his blog of the same name. Part of this work looks at the history and effects of Christianity in the Indigenous and modern world and the persistence of the elements of religious privilege and predatory missiology. Ukumbwa has been active in the Pan-African movement, Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism work and the Occupy/Decolonize to Liberate movements. He has presented at spiritual conferences in the New England region and California and has been active in organizing ritual work in the Boston, New York and Toronto, Canada. Ukumbwa can be reached on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and email at ukumbwa@gmail.com.www.indigeny-energetics.blogspot.com.
UKUMBWA SAUTI
JUN-San YASUDA is a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. In 1978, Native Americans organized The Longest Walk , wherein participants walked cross-country from San Francisco, California to Washington, DC. Accompanying them on their walk was a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Since then, Jun Yasuda has crossed the country 8 times on foot and logged in several thousand additional miles for the cause of peace. www.graftonpeacepagoda.org.
Jun-san Yasuda is now leading The 2015 NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Peace Walk For A Nuclear Free Future For Peace and the Planet, which started on Friday, March 20 in San Francisco. Participants will walk to the United Nations in New York City. They will arrive on Sunday, April 26. 2015 marks 70 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Carrying this urgent prayer, we will walk to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in New York City. Our peace walkers from Japan will report on situation of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, from which we must conclude that there can be no peaceful use of nuclear technology.
JUN-San YASUDA
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Cynthia Treis, Associate Producer
Loye Miller, Audio Editor

Tiokasin is available for concerts, lectures and other speaking engagements.
Please email: Tiokasin@gmail.com
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota and the bands of Itazipco/Mnicoujou and Oglala. He is the host of First Voices Indigenous Radio on WBAI NY - Pacifica Radio. Tiokasin has been described as “a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community activator.” One reviewer called him “a cultural resonator in the key of life.”
Politics for the Lakota is spiritual and is not separate from the rest of life.
Tiokasin has had a long history in Indigenous rights activism and advocacy. He spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Ever since his UN work, he has been actively educating people who live on Turtle Island (North America) and overseas about the importance of living with each other and with Mother Earth.
He is a survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud and Cheyenne River Lakota Reservations, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man.”
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is also a master musician and one of the great exponents of the ancient red cedar Lakota flute, and plays traditional and contemporary music, using both Indigenous and European instruments. He has been a major figure in preserving and reviving the cedar wood flute tradition and has combined “spoken word” and music in performances since childhood. Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the United Nations as well as at numerous universities and concert venues.

His words of Indigenous insight and global concern are offered though the experience of "one Lakota living in one world".

~ Mitakuye Oyasin

April 30, 2015

Nuclear Ruling is Victory for Lakota Mine Opponents



JOINT PRESS RELEASE FROM CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE, OWE AKU/BRING BACK THE WAY, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WATER, AND DAKOTA RURAL ACTION


Debra White Plume, Lakota
NRC RULING GIVES VICTORY TO MINE OPPONENTS


By Jeffrey Parsons, Attorney
Lilias Jarding, Ph.D.  (Clean Water Alliance)
Debra White Plume lakotaone@gmail.com (Owe Aku)
Censored News: English with French translation by Christine Prat
Note: Facebook blocked Censored News from posting this on the day it was released!
April 30, 2015

Opponents of a proposed uranium mine claimed victory today, as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) ruled that proper procedures have not been followed to protect Native American cultural resources and that further action must be taken to protect water resources before the proposed mining project can go forward.  The Dewey-Burdock mine is proposed for Fall River and Custer Counties in southwestern South Dakota.

The ASLB required that Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff go back and do proper consultation with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, one of the parties in the licensing procedure.  According to Jeffrey Parsons, attorney for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, "As we have argued from the start of this process over five years ago, Powertech/Azarga and the NRC staff have never conducted an adequate review of impacts to cultural resources, and also did not impose sufficient controls to protect aquifers from contamination through historic drill holes.  The Board ruling today confirms these major flaws in the company's analysis."

Debra White Plume of Owe Aku/Bring Back the Way added, "The ASLB decision regarding the NRC's violation of its own standards is a battle victory in the multilayered, protracted paper war to protect sacred water and cultural and sacred places from extractive industries that intend to operate without meaningful regulation and oversight."

Analysis by Dr. Hannan LaGarry, a geologist, indicates that there are at least 7,500 historic drill holes on the proposed mine site, as well as faults, at least one sinkhole, and artesian springs – all of which create the likelihood that water contamination could not be controlled, if mining is allowed to proceed.  The ASLB ruling requires that, prior to conducting tests at the site, the company must "attempt to locate and properly abandon all historic drill holes located within the perimeter well ring for the wellfield.  The licensee will document, and provide to the NRC, such efforts to identify and properly abandon all drill holes."

"We have been heard and acknowledged," said Sarah Peterson of It's All About the Water.

"Hopefully, the company and the NRC recognize the significance of the ruling today, and they will stop trying to both gloss over the serious problems with the proposed project and to move forward on the cheap," said Lilias Jarding of Clean Water Alliance.  "We must protect our water and our economy from imprudent development of radioactive uranium mining," added Gena Parkhurst, Chairperson of the Black Hills Chapter of Dakota Rural Action.

Dakota Rural Action is a grassroots family agriculture and conservation group that organizes South Dakotans to protect our family farmers and ranchers, natural resources, and unique way of life.  www.dakotarural.org


It's All About the Water is a grassroots group based in Fall River County, S.D.

Owe Aku is a grassroots cultural preservation and human rights nongovernmental organization headquartered on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation.  http://www.oweakuinternational.org/

The Clean Water Alliance is a diverse collection of citizens concerned about the health, environmental, and economic impacts that proposed uranium mining projects would have on our communities, people, economy, and natural resources. Our goal is to prevent uranium mining in the Black Hills region, and to protect our valuable resources for future generations. www.bhcleanwateralliance.org.

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Debra White Plume
Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way
PO Box 325
Manderson, SD 57756
www.oweakuinternational.org

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE CONJOINT DE CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE [Alliance pour l’Eau Propre], OWE AKU/ BRING BACK THE WAY, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WATER[C’est de l’Eau qu’il s’agit] ET ACTION RURALE DU DAKOTA
LA DECISION DE LA NRC [Commission de Réglementation du Nucléaire] DONNE LA VICTOIRE AUX OPPOSANTS A LA MINE

30 avril 2015
Egalement publié sur Censored News

Contacts:
Jeffrey Parsons, Attorney, (00 1) 303-823-5738
Lilias Jarding, Ph.D., (00 1) 605-787-2872 (Clean Water Alliance)
Debra White Plume lakotaone@gmail.com (Owe Aku)
Des opposants à un projet de mine d’uranium ont remporté une victoire aujourd’hui, lorsque le Conseil pour l’attribution des Licences et la Sécurité Nucléaire (ASLB) de la Commission de Réglementation Nucléaire a jugé que les procédures requises n’avaient pas été suivies pour protéger les ressources culturelles Autochtones et que d’autres mesures doivent être prises pour protéger les ressources en eau avant que le projet de mine puisse avancer. Le projet de mine Dewey-Burdock concerne les Comtés de Fall River et Custer dans le sud-ouest du Dakota du Sud.
Le Conseil (ASBL) a requis que la Commission de Réglementation Nucléaire (NRC) retourne effectuer des consultations satisfaisantes avec la Tribu Sioux Oglala, une des parties dans la procédure. Selon Jeffrey Parsons, l’avocat de la Tribu Sioux Oglala, « comme nous l’avons affirmé depuis le début du processus il y a plus de cinq ans, Powertech/Azarga et la NRC n’ont jamais effectué d’évaluation adéquate des impacts sur les ressources culturelles, et de plus, n’ont pas imposé de contrôles suffisants pour protéger les nappes aquifères de la contamination par d’anciens trous de forage. La décision prise par le Conseil aujourd’hui confirme les lacunes importantes de l’analyse de la compagnie.
Debra White Plume, d’Owe Aku/Bring Back the Way, a ajouté: « La décision de l’ASBL concernant la violation par la NRC des ses propres standards est une bataille victorieuse dans la longue guerre de paperasses à plusieurs niveaux, menée pour protéger l’eau sacrée et des lieus culturels et sacrés des industries minières qui ont l’intention d’opérer sans réglementation ni contrôle significatifs. »
Une analyse du Dr. Hannan LaGarry, géologue, indique qu’il y a au moins 7500 trous de forage historiques sur le site proposé pour la mine, ainsi que des failles, au moins un gouffre, et des puits artésiens – toutes choses qui rendent probable que la contamination de l’eau ne puisse pas être contrôlée, si l’extraction minière est autorisée. La règle de l’ASBL requiert qu’avant d’effectuer des tests sur le site, la compagnie doive « essayer de localiser et d’abandonner complètement tous les trous de forage historiques localisés dans le périmètre du champs du puits. Le détenteur d’une licence devra recenser par écrit et présenter à la NRC ces mesures prises pour identifier et abandonner effectivement tous les trous de forage. »
« Nous avons été entendus et reconnus » dit Sarah Peterson de C’est de l’Eau qu’il s’agit [It’s All About the Water].
 « Espérons que la compagnie et la NRC reconnaissent l’importance de la décision d’aujourd’hui et qu’elles cesseront de faire abstraction des problèmes graves posés par le projet et s’abstiendront de choisir la solution bon marché, » dit Lilias Jarding de l’Alliance pour l’Eau Propre [Clean Water Alliance]. « Nous devons protéger notre eau et notre économie d’un développement imprudent de l’extraction d’uranium radioactif, » ajouta Gena Parkhurst, Présidente du district des Black Hills d’Action Rurale du Dakota.Action Rurale du Dakota est un groupe pour l’agriculture familiale de base et l’écologie qui organise les gens du Dakota du Sud pour protéger les petits fermiers et éleveurs familiaux, les ressources naturelles et un style de vie unique. www.dakotarural.org
It’s All About the Water [C’est de l’Eau qu’il s’agit] est une organisation de base qui a son siège dans le Comté de Fall River, Dakota du Sud.
Owe Aku est une organisation de base non-gouvernementale pour la préservation culturelle et les droits de l’homme, qui a son siège dans la Réserve Lakota Oglala de Pine Ridge.http://oweakuinternatinonal.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a2ae9a524dd25003fde04caed&id=ef8e9b2949&e=e47361e045
La Clean Water Alliance [Alliance pour l’Eau Propre] est un rassemblement divers de citoyens concernés par les effets que les projets d’extraction d’uranium auraient sur la santé, l’environnement et l’économie de nos communautés, habitants, économie, et ressources naturelles. Notre but est d’empêcher l’extraction d’uranium dans la région des Black Hills, et de protéger nos ressources précieuses pour les générations futures. www.bhcleanwateralliance.org.
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Clean Water Alliance
www.bhcleanwateralliance.org.
Facebook – Black Hills Clean Water Alliance
Pour plus d’informations sur Owe Aku et notre travail pour protéger l’eau sacrée et les ressources culturelles Lakota, visitez notre site www.oweakuinternational.org.