INNU: Indigenous Guards Demand an End to Forest Cuts

Blockade north of Dolbeau-Mistassini: indigenous guards of Nitassinan demand an end to forest cuts

Mashk Assi Collective, Censored News, August 1, 2023

[Mashteuiatsh, July 31, 2023] The Mashk Assi Collective, whose mission is to protect Nitassinan, sent a settlement to the company Resolu on July 31, 2023 to remind the opposition of the guardian families of the territory of the Innu Territory to any forest cutting on their territory (see attached). The company was advised by recommended mail that guards of the territory will be patrolling the area of km 40 north of Dolbeau-Mistassini to apply the self-determination of their ancestral sovereignty and to ensure that no unburnt trees are cut down for profit. A blockade was put in place in the sector on the morning of July 31, 2023 to monitor the enforcement of the Innue Law and compliance with the settlement.

Paddle to Muckleshoot: Honoring the Beauty

 Paddle to Muckleshoot: Honoring the Beauty

By Northwest Treaty Tribes, Censored News, July 31, 2023

"We've been expecting you," said Jason Elkins, Chair of the Muckleshoot Tribal Council.

Elkins was greeting one of the many canoes that approached Alki Beach on Sunday, the celebratory landing day of the Muckleshoot Canoe Journey. Under sunny skies, tribes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond celebrated participating in the culturally important journey once again after several years off because of COVID.

Prior to arriving at Alki, the canoes had departed from Suquamish that morning, where they had a day of rest before the final push.

United Nations: Black Hills Under Threat from Mining: Water is Defining Issue

United Nations: Black Hills Under Threat from Mining: Water is Defining Issue

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 31, 2023

GENEVA -- The sacred Black Hills are under threat from mining companies, threatening the water sources, Wakinyan LaPointe, Lakota, told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"Our sacred Black Hills are under threat of destruction by multinational mining corporations and lack of state preventative measures," LaPointe told the United Nations EMRIP, which reports to the UN Human Rights Council.

"The sacred Black Hills located within Lakota homelands are protected under the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties, ratified by the United States and the Lakota Nation and proclaimed the Supreme Law of the Land."

DOWNWIND Wins Prize at Cordillera Film Fest -- Western Shoshone Never Consented to Atomic Bomb Detonations

Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte at Cordillera Film Festival. Courtesy Photo

Downwind tells Western Shoshone story left untold by Oppenheimer's film

Native Community Action Council, July 29, 2023, Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat

On Saturday, July 29, 2023, the documentary DOWNWIND won the jury prize at the Cordillera International Film Festival after the Nevada premiere in Reno. DOWNWIND features the victims exposed to radiation in the fallout from the testing of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and their patriotic response to bring attention to the 928 secret tests conducted between 1951-1992.

The US Atomic Energy Commission, now the Department of Energy, called the people living DOWNWIND, “a low-use segment of the population” and therefore, Americans not worthy of protection from the adverse consequences of radiation in the fallout from nuclear weapons testing.

“We are Americans, and deserve equal protection under the law,” said Principal Man Ian Zabarte of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation. Further, he said, “Native American land binds this great nation together. The Shoshone people were never informed and never consented to the occupation and use of our sacred Mother Earth for nuclear weapons testing.”