Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 21, 2025

Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew to Join Freedom Flotilla 'Letter on the Siege on Gaza'



"This Warrior Flag was actually at Standing Rock," said Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree Dene on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza today. This flag also flew at the Wet'suwet'en's Gidimt'en Checkpoint. The women also brought an Anishinaabe flag that flew at 1492 Land Back Lane at Six Nations. Remembering the photos of the Warrior flag in Jabalia in Gaza, she said, "This is a symbol of Global Indigenous Solidarity, and Global Indigenous Solidarity means that none of us are free until all of us are free." Agnew said, "I have joined the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break the siege on Gaza with Dr. Suzanne Shoush and fellow comrades from Turtle Island. Break the siege on Gaza NOW! Solidarity to the global Indigenous resistance."

September 19, 2025

Inuk Woman Joins Flotilla to Gaza 'No one should face injustice alone'



Aka Hansen, Inuk said today, "We’ve set off and are ready to go upset their colonization by bringing humanitarian aid."  On the boat to Gaza, Sept. 20, 2025


Inuk Woman Joins Flotilla to Gaza 'No one should face injustice alone' 

'Solidarity is Stronger than Fear'
-- Aka Hansen

Censored News, Sept. 16, 2025

The Long Talk with Leonard Peltier: From boarding school to the good fight, and home again

 

The Long Talk with Leonard Peltier: From boarding school to the good fight, and home again

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 19, 2025

TURTLE MOUNTAIN, North Dakota -- From boarding school to the fishing rights struggle in the Northwest, to the Trail of Broken Treaties and Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier fought the good fight, and after 49 years and two months in prison, it brought him home again.

Speaking with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! from his home on Turtle Mountain, Peltier shares the reality of being in prison. Even before his long imprisonment, the battle for justice propelled him forward.

Peltier thought he would die in prison.

Recounting his life, Peltier remembers the starvation in his homeland as the U.S. attempted termination and the threat of death by the U.S. military for those at Wounded Knee. Peltier remembers being arrested with Marlon Brando, the injustice that imprisoned him, and his life and his struggles today.

Listen:

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home -- Democracy Now!




Amy Goodman speaks with Leonard Peltier at his home on Turtle Mountain, on the day after his 81st birthday. Remembering the brutality of boarding school, Peltier says, the purpose of boarding schools is "to take the Indian out of the Indians." The danger continues, Peltier adds. "Look at what they’re doing in Palestine, killing women, children, babies, unborn babies. That’s what they did to us, man. And here it is still happening."



Takeover of BIA in Washington 1972 during Trail of Broken Treaties.

Peltier remembers helping organize the United Tribes of All Indians, the battle for hunting and fishing rights, and Treaties, and the takeover of Fort Lawton in Washington State -- before he joined the American Indian Movement. Peltier describes the GOON Squad and the Reign of Terror on Pine Ridge and how AIM stood up to them. At Wounded Knee, Nixon was going to wipe them out. 

Censored News

September 18, 2025

Indigenous Women Join Freedom Flotilla to Deliver Aid to Gaza

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"We are the Indigenous delegation of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. We gathered in front of the boats of our comrades the Thousand Madleens to send good blessings on their way. From the Great Lakes, to the Ice Caps, to the Sea, Palestine will be free!!!" -- Danmark boat now sailing to Gaza.


Brave Hearts to the Front


Indigenous Women Join Freedom Flotilla to Deliver Aid to Gaza

The International Indigenous Youth Council announced today solidarity with two Indigenous women from Turtle Island joining  the Freedom Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Sept. 19, 2025

Dr. Suzanne Shoush, St'atl'imx/Sudanese, and Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree/Dene Salt River First Nation

Indigenous women joined the flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, where the horror of starvation and genocide is ongoing. The flotilla boats were hit twice by explosives during drone attacks in Tunisia.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail today from Italy, Tunisia and Greece to unite in International waters, the flotilla said Sunday morning, at noon New York time. Boats from Spain had already set sail, among 44 countries sending delegations and boats from around the world.

Dr. Suzanne Shoush, St'atl'imx/Sudanese, and Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree/Dene Salt River First Nation, are joining the Freedom Flotilla Coalition Women's boat to Break the Siege on Gaza.