Secretive U.S. Marshals Team Wasn't Deployed to Standing Rock -- Was at Wounded Knee

U.S. government sharpshooters take aim at occupiers of Wounded Knee, 1973.

Secretive U.S. Marshals Team Wasn't Deployed to Standing Rock -- Was at Wounded Knee

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 21, 2024

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The U.S. Marshals secretive Special Operations Group, was not deployed to Standing Rock during the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, but it headed up the police response at Wounded Knee, firing repeatedly on those who occupied it.

The State of North Dakota pressed the U.S. Marshals Service to reveal why its Special Operations Group was not deployed to Standing Rock. The questioning came during the current federal court case, North Dakota v. United States of America. The state is seeking $38 million from the U.S., accusing federal agencies of failing to clear the camps and failing in their response.

Hualapai Run to Arizona Capitol to Protect Sacred Spring from Lithium Mining

 

Hualapai runners arrived at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Tuesday, running from Peach Springs to save their sacred spring from lithium mining. Photo by Lorraine Herder.

Hualapai Run to Arizona Capitol to Protect Sacred Spring from Lithium Mining

Listen 'How did Nuclear Weapons Get on Our Rez'

How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?

MINOT, North Dakota -- A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.

BY ELLA WEBER

Listen: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-did-nuclear-weapons-get-on-my-reservation1/

Indigenous Testify on Dakota Access Pipeline Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Germaine Tremmel, Standing Rock, Lakota testifying from the Oceti Sakowin camp.
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Lakota leaders testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in December of 2016.

Indigenous Testify on Dakota Access Pipeline Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Censored News is republishing the testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in December 2016, which describes the brutality of law enforcement, and failures of the U.S. government at Standing Rock. The current case in federal court, North Dakota v. U.S., omits the brutality of excessive force by law enforcement, critical injuries, and destruction of the sacred.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 19, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Lakota leaders testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, describing the excessive force and brutality of law enforcement during attacks on water protectors defending the water from construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota. The attacks resulted in critical injuries, the targeting of women, the destruction of cultural sites, and the violation of human rights, and international rights.

"Presently in the United States of America, our people have no civil rights," Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier, Lakota, South Dakota, testified before the commission.

"In 1968, the U.S. passed the Indian Civil Rights Act, it only protects our people from tribal governments."