Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 12, 2024

White Mesa Ute Community Spiritual Walk and Protest, Oct. 12, 2024


'Stop Contaminating My Future'



           Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Ute, thanked everyone for coming. “I want our community to be free of radiation. I want our kids to be growing up in a good environment," said Badback, co-founder of White Mesa Concerned Community. Photo by Ofelia Rivas.



Live Coverage! Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham

White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest

The Spiritual Walk began with a prayer song acknowledging the Creator this morning, and the reminder that this is Indigenous land. Walkers were asked to respond if they were called on to stop the trucks bringing in radioactive loads, with the reminder that the radioactive trucks are endangering everyone on the haul route.

Tó Nizhóní Ání Hydrogen Information Summit, Tuba City, Oct. 12, 2024

Photo courtesy Tó Nizhóní Ání



HYDROGEN INFORMATIONAL SUMMIT

Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání
Media Organizer
adrian@tonizhoniani.org

Tó Nizhóní Ání will be organizing a hydrogen informational summit for the Western Agency in Tuba City, Arizona for participants to learn more about hydrogen from subject matter experts and community perspectives.

October 11, 2024

Mohawk Nation News 'Planet Peace'


 New at Mohawk Nation News. Read the article at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/13/planet-peace/

The Silent Killers in Indian Country: Copper, Lithium, Uranium and Plutonium


'Downwind' reveals the trail of cancer and death for Western Shoshone and those living downwind from atomic bomb testing in Nevada. The U.S. government detonated more than 900 atomic bombs on Western Shoshone land in secret from 1951 to 1992.


The Silent Killers in Indian Country: Copper, Lithium, Uranium and Plutonium

Judge finds plutonium plans in New Mexico and South Carolina violated environmental laws

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 10, 2024

The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge.