Dine' Elsie Begay honored with Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at International Uranium Film Festival

Navajo Grandmother Elsie Begaye honored with Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
by International Uranium Film Festival

By Brenda Norrell

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Watch the movie 'The Return of Navajo Boy'

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9450949/video/710843021

"The people could have still been alive," says Dine' Grandmother Elsie Begay as she describes how Dine' were never told about the dangers of radiation and uranium mining. 

"This movie not only brought back my brother, but it is helping people," Begay said of the movie, 'Return of Navajo Boy.'

Dine' grandmother Elsie Begay, 83, of Monument Valley was honored with the Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Uranium Film Festival. Begay received her award in Dine' and English languages yesterday.

Maori Film Fest Features Indigenous Fight to Protect Chaco

Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

In the Pueblo and Dine' homelands, all roads led to Chaco, the center for trade and commerce. Today, oil and gas drilling are destroying sacred places. The new film, 'Our Story -- The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco,' is being shown at film festivals worldwide.

Michael Ramsey, Daniel TsoUnited States | English | 2021 | 46min | Color | Maoriland Film Festival | Colonisation, Environmental, Political, Sovereignty | Maoriland Film Festival | New Zealand Premiere

Ninety percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Over the course of three years, Navajo and Pueblo leadership including Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), Julia Bernal (Sandia Pueblo), and Navajo Nation Council Delegate and co-director Daniel Tso have been intimately collaborating to tell their stories in this film as they struggle to protect what little remains of this sacred landscape, including the World Heritage Site Chaco National Historical Park in the SW United States.

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Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Mothers Strategy on Quebec's Forced Language 'Order''

Posted on May 23, 2022

 

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MNN. May 23, 2022. Almost 80 years ago Indian day school teachers tried to make us speak French in kahnawake. We took the exam paper which was in French, signed our name, and handed it back blank. They exclaimed, “Eeez no use. They won’t speak French”.  We were exempted from the ‘canadien’ [squatters] stranglehold.  This commentary applies equally to English.

Sikowis and Nick Estes: The Failed System, Schemes of Non-Profits and A Regenerative Future

Bioneers moderator Alexis Bunten, Nick Estes, Sikowis Nobiss

Sikowis and Nick Estes: The Failed System, Schemes of Non-Profits and A Regenerative Future, at Bioneers

By Brenda Norrell
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Nick Estes, Lakota professor and co-founder of The Red Nation, and Sikowis, founder of Great Plains Action Society, described the Christian Colonial Capitalism, imperialism and theft of Native land that led to the current failed system and deceptive schemes of non-profit philanthropy.

"We don't need to cry on the shoulder of white men who stole our land for funding --  even though they are morally obligated in my opinion," said Estes, Lower Brule Sioux, transitioning to be a professor at the University of Minnesota. Estes is co-founder of The Red Nation and founder of Red Media.

Speaking at the Bioneers Conference in San Francisco, Estes and Sikowis described the failed system of capitalism in the United States, insidious with fascism, and the economy based on theft of land, the enslavement of blacks, and genocide of Indigenous People.