Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 14, 2022

OAK FLAT: Biden's Justice Dept opposes friends of the court filing of Apache Elder, NCAI, and Grandmothers





                                            White Mountain Apache Elder Ramon Riley

OAK FLAT: Biden's Justice Dept opposes friends of the court filing of Apache Elder, NCAI, Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and MICA Group

By Brenda Norrell

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The National Congress of American Indians, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, White Mountain Apache Elder Ramon Riley and MICA Group have filed a friend of the court brief to protect the Apache ceremonial place of Oak Flat from copper mining.

Biden's Justice Department is opposing this friends of the court brief.

It is wrong "to destroy sacred land that made us who we are," states Riley, in the court filing. He is White Mountain's cultural resource director and representative for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

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September 13, 2022

Federal Report Supports Saving Oak Flat: New BLM Report Exposes Devastation


Photo by Steve Pavey

Federal report supports saving Oak Flat 


New Bureau of Land Management report exposes planned devastation of culture, water, and environment 


By Apache Stronghold

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WASHINGTON – A new federal report by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management details the  cultural and environmental threats posed by the Biden Administration’s plan to transfer Oak Flat to  a foreign-owned mining company.


The report adds even more evidence supporting tribal members’  effort to defend their sacred religious site in Apache Stronghold v. United States, a case currently at the  Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  


“Oak Flat is the place where Apache have connected with our creator since time immemorial” said  Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. of Apache Stronghold. “This new report further validates what we have  been saying all along: giving Oak Flat away to Resolution Copper will destroy the land we depend  upon for our most important religious practices.” 


September 12, 2022

Happy 78th Birthday Leonard Peltier -- Walk to Justice


Photos courtesy Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice

Leonard Peltier Walk To Justice
Minneapolis to Washington D.C.

Happy Birthday Leonard Peltier. We feasted for this celebration of your 78 years on Mother Earth with us. Many thanks to Mike Day for singing honor songs, offering prayer and running a pipe ceremony for Elder Peltier. Thank you to to HoChunk Nation for hosting us on their homelands, for putting us up and for helping us to cover the miles of this prayer over the past several days. Thank you for this beautiful night and everyone’s support and prayers for this walk to Justice.


                                  Walking in the rain outside of Millstone, Wisconsin.                


Join the Walk to Justice in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sept. 17, 2022.



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