Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations

Deskaheh Steve Jacobs https://twitter.com/i/status/1680910453554159616

Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 22, 2023

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GENEVA -- Deskaheh Steve Jacobs provided the opening prayer but said he will not address the United  Nations until the Haudenosaunee is recognized as a government. Jacob's prayer began the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this week in Geneva, with weeklong global testimony focused on militarization, protecting the sacred, and violations of human rights.

Earlier this week, the City of Geneva installed 30 large double-sided photo panels along Lake Geneva telling the story of Deskaheh's journey and the development of relations between the City of Geneva and Indigenous Peoples worldwide.

Deskaheh – Levi General, is considered the first Indigenous Person to have raised the issue of loss of autonomy and dispossession of First Nations – Indigenous peoples by colonizing states at the international level. https://www.indiantime.net/story/2023/07/20/news/haudenosaunee-delegation-in-geneva-for-100th-anniversary-of-deskahehs-arrival/42727.html

"In 1923 Deskaheh, Chief of the Iroquois League, representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, leaves Canada to go on a mission to Geneva, Switzerland. He hopes to attend the League of Nations (now the United Nations) in order to have it recognize the sovereignty of the Iroquois.

MNN 'Child Rejected from Indigenous Games for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination'

CHILD REJECTED FROM INDIGENOUS GAMES FOR REFUSING COVID-19 VACCINATION

Posted on July 22, 2023

 

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MNN. July 22, 2023. Kahionhatatie Cree 13, an Onkwehonwe from the Kanienkehaka territory of Kahnawake, was denied access to play with her soccer team “Eastern Door and the North”, at the North American Indigenous Games in Halifax this week. She trained all year, then a provision was made that athletes required a COVID19 vaccination upon registration in December. I submitted a letter for exemption based on our traditional standing. At 10 pm on July 22, six hours before her bus was to depart to Halifax, Jessie Messier, phoned me informing me that my daughter could not go to the games and if she did she would be given a bus ticket and sent home. She then apologized.

United Nations Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples -- And Stories of Hope

Lisa White Pipe, Sicangu Lakota, testifies before the U.N. Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo courtesy Coalition Large Tribes.

United Nations Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples -- And Stories of Hope

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 18, 2023

GENEVA -- The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world today, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and a story of hope from Alaska about a young French boy who helped save the Eyak language.

"There is no greater offender of tribal rights than the U.S. Justice Department," said Lisa White Pipe, Lakota, Sicangu Rosebud council member, representing the Coalition of Large Tribes, chaired by the Blackfeet Nation.

White Pipe's testimony was before the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the U.N. Human Rights Council, during the second day of the five-day session.

Mount Graham Sacred Run July 20 -- 23, 2023

 

Everyone Welcome to the 32nd Annual Mount Graham Sacred Run July 20-23, 2023
July 20, Thursday, 5 p.m. Holy Ground Blessing and dinner at Old San Carlos Momument. The run will follow after the blessing, ending at Noline's Country Store.
July 21, Friday - Run begins at Nolines Country Store and end at Treasure Park West on Mount Graham.
July 22, Saturday: At sunrise, we will hike to retrieve the holy water and Blessing Ceremony.
July 23, Sunday: 9 a.m. Holy Ground Blessing and Departure.
Food will be provided. Please bring all camping gear, Warm clothes, chairs, and sanitation supplies. Prepare for rain.
Contact: Wendsler Nose 928-200-7762
Vanessa Nosie 928-215-1476