Bridge to the Ancestors: Walk Run with Carrizo/Comecrudo Youths in Texas Borderlands

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March 23, 2023

CONTACT: Antoinette Reyes, antoinette.reyes@sierraclub.org

This weekend the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas (Esto’k Gna) is holding a youth-led, week-long run and walk from the Permian Basin to the Rio Grande Valley to bring awareness to the harmful, exploitative and unjust impacts of extractive industries on their sacred lands.

The event, titled Bridge to the Ancestors, will start with an opening ceremony on March 24th at Monahans Sandhills State Park in Monahans, Texas. Over the next 10 days, tribal members will visit eight communities, culminating in a celebration on April 2 in Port Isabel, Texas.

Apache Stronghold Defends Oak Flat in Federal Court

"We are giving Mother Earth our voice, to be heard." -- Wendsler Nosie

By Brenda Norrell 

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PASADENA, California -- Apache Wendsler Nosie said the arguments heard in the Ninth Circuit Court show the U.S. government's attempts of erasure, erasure of the people and their connection to the land, erasure of their right to pray in their sacred place at Oak Flat.

"This country is a corporate country. It is not even thinking about our children, the earth, the things that give us life," Nosie said after Tuesday's rehearing of the federal court case.

Nosie urged Native people to be part of the spiritual struggle. He said if their leaders only care about money, then they are on the wrong road, and that the spiritual road is the one to be on. He urged tribal leaders to tell people the truth.

"Now we know why Biden hasn't helped, anybody hasn't helped, because that is not their priority, of the people."

Journey well our friend, Buck Sampson

Journey well our friend, Buck Sampson, who always supported his son Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson on the Longest Walks, and helped Bad Bear provide photos to Censored News. We will remember you well our friend, Brenda, Censored News.

Quechan Running and Singing Away a Gold Mine on Sacred Land

  

Now, Saturday afternoon: Traditional Ribbon Skirt and Gourd and Tin Can Singing Gathering: Quechan host gathering in Winterhaven, California, to stop a gold mining from destroying sacred land. Photos copyright Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham.