Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 5, 2025

Native American Film Series, Lincoln Nebraska, 'Crying Earth Rise Up'

Debra White Plume in 'Crying Earth Rise Up' at home on Pine Ridge before her passing to the Spirit World.

Native American Film Series features films from the far north in Alaska, to Dine' College on the Navajo Nation and Oklahoma, and begins with 'Crying Earth Rise Up' on Pine Ridge

Native American Film Series

Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center are proud to present a series of free screenings featuring short Native American films and tv programs from the VMM public broadcasting archives, spanning nearly 50 years of programming.

Unless otherwise noted, screenings in this series will take place on the second Monday of each month and are admission free and open to the public. Tickets available at the Ross box office (online ticketing not available for free screenings).
Ross Media Arts Center
313 N 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68508

CRYING EARTH RISE UP (2014)
MONDAY, APRIL 14 – 7:25pm

Followed by a talk with Daniel Snow & Dr. Arindam Malakar, moderated by Vision Maker Media’s Alana Stone.

“Water is our first home. Water is our first medicine. Without water, there is no life.” -Debra White Plume (Oglala Lakota), Activist | A Lakota mother studying geology seeks the source of the water contamination that may have caused her daughter’s critical health problems. Meanwhile, a Lakota grandmother fights the regional expansion of uranium mining. Crying Earth Rise Up exposes the cost of uranium mining and its impact on Great Plains drinking water. (57 minutes)

April 4, 2025

'Demon Mineral' Featured in International Uranium Film Festival 2025


'Demon Mineral' co-written by Dine' Tommy Rock, in Dine' and English, is featured at the International Uranium Film Festival 2025, which begins its global journey in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in May. The festival returns to Window Rock on Nov. 13 and 14, 2025. https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/uranium-film-festival-rio-de-janeiro-may-2025


The Clandestine Operation by the United States Government Meant Death for Dine' in the Uranium Mines

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8228

"They didn't tell us the rock was dangerous. They said they would use it to make weapons, to use against the Asians. But it came back on us."

This is the voice of a Dine' grandmother, speaking in Dine'.

April 1, 2025

Ofelia Rivas 'O'odham Resistance: Human Rights Violations at the Border' April 6, 2025

 

O'ODHAM RESISTANCE

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AT THE BORDER 


12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6
Holland Sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson
4831 E. 22nd St., just east of Swan Rd.

Corporate greed, violence and human rights violations by the government are a national pandemic. Here in Southern Arizona, Tohono O'odham tribal elder and activist Ophelia Rivas, a founder of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, will be in Tucson to speak about the human rights violations, Border Patrol violence and the impact of the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation at the Arizona- Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol, separating them from their families and sacred tribal ceremonial grounds on the Mexico side of the border.

Co-sponsored by the O'odham VOICE Against the WALL and the Social Justice Council of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson. Free event, but donations will be gratefully accepted to buy groceries, medicine and toys for O'odham families.

Read more, and support Ofelia's work on her website, O'odham Rights

Support by mail:
Ophelia Rivas, PO Box 1835, Sells, Arizona 85634
4oodhamrights@gmail.com

March 27, 2025

Standing Rock Chair on Greenpeace Verdict -- False, Self-serving Narrative in Insulting Lawsuit

 

Photo Rob Wilson Photography


STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBAL CHAIRWOMAN JANET ALKIRE STATEMENT ON THE JURY VERDICT AGAINST GREENPEACE

By Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire
Censored News, March 27, 2025
Translation into French by Christine Prat 

As Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, I take offense to the jury verdict in the Energy Transfer SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace. We expect more from North Dakota judges and members of the jury from our neighboring communities.

Energy Transfer’s claims in this case were ridiculous. They were wholly disrespectful of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, our ancestors, and our youth, who started the movement in 2016 to protect our water from an oil spill from DAPL. Neither Greenpeace nor anyone else paid or persuaded Standing Rock to oppose DAPL.