U.S. plans to seize Oak Flat, Apache sacred land, for copper mining on Jan. 15, 2021

 

Apache Wendsler Nosie, Jr., said the U.S. Forest Service plans to seize Oak Flat, sacred land, on January 15, 2021. Nosie asks others to come to Oak Flat now and join him in prayer, to halt the seizure of Apache sacred land for copper mining

TAKE ACTION NOW | HELP SAVE OAK FLAT

By Apache Stronghold

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Last month Tribes discovered that the date for the completion of a crucial environmental review process has suddenly been moved forward by a full year, to December 2020, even as the tribes are struggling with a Covid outbreak that has stifled their ability to respond. If the environmental review is completed before Trump leaves office, the tribes may be unable to stop the mine. Oak Flat needs all of us now to come together. Below are suggested actions and ways you and your communities can organize and get involved to help Save Oak Flat Anything you can do is greatly appreciated.

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Remembering Carrie

Carrie Dann by Brenda Norrell, Western Shoshone Gathering 2009

Carrie and Mary Dann photo by Ilka Hartmann 1979

Remembering Carrie

Article by Brenda Norrell

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Translation by Christine Prat

French

The sun was setting over Eureka, Nevada, and the roads were icy and treacherous. It was February and I worried over Carrie Dann, in her seventies, making the long drive back to her ranch alone. I walked her out to her white truck, trying not to slip on the sidewalk which was a sheet of ice. With a smile, she assured me she would be just fine.

Carrie traveled the world and was a global force, traveling to the Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2010. Ultimately, however, she was a rancher, a tough working rancher, fighting to protect her horses and the land, air and water.

Carrie passed to the Spirit World on Jan. 2, 2021. Carrie's sister Mary passed in 2005.

Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo poet-author,  Retired Regents Professor, Arizona State University, honored Carrie.

"What a grandmother, mother, daughter, sister, Carrie Dann was," Ortiz wrote today.

"A force of life."

"Life of life."

"Generation after generation before, after."

"We -- all people all beings -- are with her always. And she will always be with us."

"She will always be with all peoples -- even those who mislead and are destructive -- because that is the way of the original knowledge -- who are bound by the Sacred Way of life to be responsible for life to be sustainable forever."

Dine' Chili Yazzie 'Energy development significant contributor to climate crisis'

Dine' Chili Yazzie 'Energy development significant contributor to climate crisis'

By Chili Yazzie, Dine'

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The concerns of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico, Power the Future, and the Republican Party of New Mexico on the nomination of Deb Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior and the assenting celebration and support for her, are compelling for varied reasons.

Hopi Reggae Artist Casper's Brave Underground Sound

Notice to our readers: The newspaper Indian Country Today, in a breach of ethics, removed my byline from this article, which I wrote as a staff writer, and put a fake name on it. As journalists, we must ensure that this theft of our work does not continue and publicly condemn this violation of ethics. -- Brenda Norrell

Revisiting the powerful words of Casper 

Casper’s Brave Underground Sound

January 18, 2005 

by Brenda Norrell

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Casper's underground reggae sound on his new compact disc, ''Honor the People'', examines the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier and the corporate root of the war in Iraq. The Hopi artist from Third Mesa questions who won the last presidential election and how long before the voices of truth are silenced in America.

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