Blackfeet to United Nations -- United States is Greatest Offender of Native Rights

Blackfeet Councilman Marvin Weatherwax speaking at the UN Indigenous Peoples Forum/Image by Censored News

Blackfeet to United Nations -- United States is the Greatest Offender of Native Rights

By Brenda Norrell

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NEW YORK -- Blackfeet Councilman Marvin Weatherwax, Jr., told the United Nations, "Today there is no greater offender to tribal rights than the U.S. Department of Justice which repeatedly fails to protect our tribal communities in egregious violation of the government's treaties and trust duties."

Councilman Weatherwax, chairman of the Coalition of Large Tribes, delivered a powerful address to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The United States has failed to ensure Navajo water rights, plans to put a copper mine in the epicenter of San Carlos Apaches ceremonial place at Oak Flat, and treats Native people with hostility along the Canadian border.

The Department of Justice has taken the position in federal court that the United States bears no responsibility for the rape of a Northern Cheyenne woman in her home by an on-duty federal law enforcement officer.

World Governments Rattled as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at United Nations

Vice Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/ Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an indigenous Mbororo woman from Chad. Screenshot by Censored News

World Governments Rush to Defend Human Rights Records as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at United Nations

Article and images by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

August 20, 2023

NEW YORK -- Governments from around the world are rushing to defend their human rights records as Indigenous Peoples describe the atrocities -- from the shackling of Aboriginal children in Australia to forced police confessions in Vietnam, and cultural genocide in China's Inner Mongolia, during the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

From Nicaragua, a Miskito land defender described the assassination of his son and said 79 Indigenous Peoples have been murdered. An Indigenous human rights activist in Brazil said he is targeted for death.

"I am marked for death," said an Indigenous delegate from Brazil. "I don't know how much life I have left." Appealing to the United Nations Forum, he said that he and his brothers, all marked for death, will continue their fight to the end. 

United Nations -- 'Water is Life' Dismantling Water Colonialism

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Wakinyan LaPointe addressing the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York 2023. Courtesy photo.

Mni Ki Wakan calls for Indigenous Water Justice, Global Collaboration, and Dismantling of Water Colonialism

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MKW Co-convener, Wakinyan LaPointe (a Sicangu Lakota citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe), in partnership with Indigenous Peoples Organizations, called for Indigenous water justice on a mass scale, global collaboration, and an end to water colonialism.

China Denies Cultural Genocide in Mongolia at UN Forum of Indigenous Peoples

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China Denies Cultural Genocide in Mongolia at UN Forum of Indigenous Peoples

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

NEW YORK -- China's representative to the UN Indigenous Peoples Forum passionately denied that China is guilty of cultural genocide in Mongolia.

While denying that China is engaged in cultural genocide, China's representative redirected the focus to the genocide of Indigenous Peoples in residential schools.

"China does not have Indigenous Peoples," he said.