A brief glimpse at the colors and beauty of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert cultures at today's Tucson Meet Yourself folklife festival. The three day annual event included international food booths, artists, low riders, and a wide diversity of music on numerous stages for three days, including traditional Yaqui and Tohono O'odham singers and dancers (who were not filmed out of respect.) From the Sonoran tortillas, chiles and mesquite cookies, to the foods from Colombia, Russia, India, and Sweden, along with strong black Arabian coffee, it was an incredible global feast. With hundreds of cultures represented, it was inspiring, delicious and beautiful.
October 14, 2012
Video Glimpse Tucson Meet Yourself 2012
A brief glimpse at the colors and beauty of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert cultures at today's Tucson Meet Yourself folklife festival. The three day annual event included international food booths, artists, low riders, and a wide diversity of music on numerous stages for three days, including traditional Yaqui and Tohono O'odham singers and dancers (who were not filmed out of respect.) From the Sonoran tortillas, chiles and mesquite cookies, to the foods from Colombia, Russia, India, and Sweden, along with strong black Arabian coffee, it was an incredible global feast. With hundreds of cultures represented, it was inspiring, delicious and beautiful.
In Iran, Terrance Nelson on Indigenous and Women's Rights
'The Iranians are shocked at my information'
By Terrance Nelson, Roseau River Ojibwe
Censored News
Here in Tehran, it is very good weather. The Iranians are treating Dennis Pashe and myself very well. We are meeting with senior authorities and receiving information that we never had before.
The life expectancy of the average Iranian has increased significantly since the 1979 Revolution. It is now comparable to the west. The common theme of western media is the violations of human rights against Iranian women. I met with the health people in Iran and the fact is that 70% of the students in university in the health area are women. Seven out of every ten students are women. Imagine that. The Iranians are actively making women into doctors and leaders. Their women are not only allowed in University, the women are everywhere in government.
The life expectancy of the average Iranian has increased significantly since the 1979 Revolution. It is now comparable to the west. The common theme of western media is the violations of human rights against Iranian women. I met with the health people in Iran and the fact is that 70% of the students in university in the health area are women. Seven out of every ten students are women. Imagine that. The Iranians are actively making women into doctors and leaders. Their women are not only allowed in University, the women are everywhere in government.
The world is jumping on the case of the Taliban shooting a young 14 year old girl because the girl led the way to demanding that females be allowed in schools. The west jumps on this, this young girl is a hero, but the west creating a hero for the cause of women in the world is questionable. We should be asking, who created the monster.
Who supplied the Taliban with weapons and installed them into power. Was is it not the west that supplied the Taliban with weapons in its war against the Soviets? Was it not the west that gave them power to suppress the women. Is Iran a perfect place for women? Is Canada? We can go into a bar room in Winnipeg and see naked women and men dancing. Is that freedom? Respect for women? Is it not government that licenses and profits from the sale of alcohol? How much does government receive for licensing nude dancing and how much is the profit for government on selling alcohol? No alcohol is allowed in Iran, drug dealers are dealt with immediately and severely. So, who is creating the monsters?
Who supplied the Taliban with weapons and installed them into power. Was is it not the west that supplied the Taliban with weapons in its war against the Soviets? Was it not the west that gave them power to suppress the women. Is Iran a perfect place for women? Is Canada? We can go into a bar room in Winnipeg and see naked women and men dancing. Is that freedom? Respect for women? Is it not government that licenses and profits from the sale of alcohol? How much does government receive for licensing nude dancing and how much is the profit for government on selling alcohol? No alcohol is allowed in Iran, drug dealers are dealt with immediately and severely. So, who is creating the monsters?
The Russians are incensed at the Turkish government for using fighter jets to intercept a passenger jet and forcing an inspection of its cargo. The charge? Supplying the government of Syria with weapons! So, if Russia does it, not that the Turks supplied the evidence, but say the Russians are supplying the Syrian government with weapons, who is supplying the weapons for the people opposing the Syrian government.
The question is, why is Russia not allowed to supply weapons into the Syrian conflict if the west is supplying weapons into that conflict. Saddam Hussein was given the same role. He was encouraged into war against Iran. He was promised good things. What is the Turkish government being promised by the west. A war between Syria and Turkey is another proxy war, the same type of war as the bloody eight year war between Iraq and Iran. Good move, we can watch on our televisions at home while the Turks and Syrians kill each other off. After they are both weak, we go in and get their oil. Smart, real smart.
The question is, why is Russia not allowed to supply weapons into the Syrian conflict if the west is supplying weapons into that conflict. Saddam Hussein was given the same role. He was encouraged into war against Iran. He was promised good things. What is the Turkish government being promised by the west. A war between Syria and Turkey is another proxy war, the same type of war as the bloody eight year war between Iraq and Iran. Good move, we can watch on our televisions at home while the Turks and Syrians kill each other off. After they are both weak, we go in and get their oil. Smart, real smart.
Apparently, it is legal and right to supply people with weapons because they oppose what they consider an oppressive government. Does that mean that the indigenous people of Canada can be supplied with weapons? Of course not, Canada doesn't support the supplying of weapons to every group that opposes oppression governments and certainly, that has never our path as indigenous people in Canada. We never bombed anyone and we will always oppose such actions. Besides, we in the west want to watch people killing each other on television from the safety of our homes, we don't want that in our homelands, we want that in other countries.
In Iran, I see police officers with no guns. I would see more weaponry on police in France than I do here. In fact, I would see more weapons on police in Winnipeg than I do here. Is is perfect? No, no country is perfect but consider this, if in Winnipeg, we can't control the violence and gangs, how would we fare with a city of twenty million like Tehran.
The charge made by Steven Harper and his government that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism is based on Iran supplying people with weapons, encouraging other people to violently oppose oppressive governments. United States supplied the weapons to the Taliban that shot down the Russian aircraft, at least that is what the movie says. So, are we state sponsors of terrorism? Are Russians not people, are Vietnamese not people? To ask these questions is a basic human right, the right to free speech. It is not only a right, it is a responsibility of a democratic society, that an individual can question.
The Taliban who shot the 14 year old girl say that she had no right to question, no right to her own individual thoughts. Do I have a right to ask questions. Does First Nations in Canada have a right to make up their own mind on foreign policy or do we automatically file in line with the immigrant governments who occupy our lands and suppress our indigenous governments.
The charge made by Steven Harper and his government that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism is based on Iran supplying people with weapons, encouraging other people to violently oppose oppressive governments. United States supplied the weapons to the Taliban that shot down the Russian aircraft, at least that is what the movie says. So, are we state sponsors of terrorism? Are Russians not people, are Vietnamese not people? To ask these questions is a basic human right, the right to free speech. It is not only a right, it is a responsibility of a democratic society, that an individual can question.
The Taliban who shot the 14 year old girl say that she had no right to question, no right to her own individual thoughts. Do I have a right to ask questions. Does First Nations in Canada have a right to make up their own mind on foreign policy or do we automatically file in line with the immigrant governments who occupy our lands and suppress our indigenous governments.
I have met with various ministers in the Iranian government. As a technician working for several First Nations, my job is to identify, who will the Chiefs meet with when they come to Tehran, what will be the agenda, what issues will be discussed and what if any agreements will be signed? The results of this first trip are significant.
The Iranians are shocked by my information. Canada pays nothing to indigenous people for the sixty metals and minerals mined in Canada. The United States receiving 2.5 million barrels of oil a day from Canada but ignoring the human rights of the indigenous people of Canada. The devastation of the environment in the Tarsands. The charge I made that the United States government ignored the Chiefs who travelled to Washington when Obama was Inaugurated. The Obama administration did nothing to respect the fundamental human right to property, that they never once questioned the government of Canada on the human rights violations in Canada. So, Romney will approve the Transcanada pipeline in his first day on the job as president. Another President saying, the hell with human rights as long as we get their oil.
The Iranians are shocked by my information. Canada pays nothing to indigenous people for the sixty metals and minerals mined in Canada. The United States receiving 2.5 million barrels of oil a day from Canada but ignoring the human rights of the indigenous people of Canada. The devastation of the environment in the Tarsands. The charge I made that the United States government ignored the Chiefs who travelled to Washington when Obama was Inaugurated. The Obama administration did nothing to respect the fundamental human right to property, that they never once questioned the government of Canada on the human rights violations in Canada. So, Romney will approve the Transcanada pipeline in his first day on the job as president. Another President saying, the hell with human rights as long as we get their oil.
Six hundred murdered and missing women in Canada. Sixty to ninety-five percent unemployment for First Nations in Canada. Women not allowed to attend post-secondary school in Canada because of cuts to education funding. This would be acceptable if those indigenous women in Canada were treated the same as any other women in Canada.
The thing is that while Steven Harper is not pulling the trigger to kill a14 year old girl because she wants to go to school, the reality is that many indigenous children in Canada are denied the same level of education financing as their non native counterparts. If a female student is denied an equal education in Canada, does that not limit their options. If the females are in communities with 60 to 95% unemployment and the Indian Act denies them the right to banks and mortgages, the chances are that the 14 year old female will become a murdered and missing statistic. In Canada it is done much more quietly than the Taliban do it but the result is the same, six hundred murdered and missing indigenous women.
The thing is that while Steven Harper is not pulling the trigger to kill a14 year old girl because she wants to go to school, the reality is that many indigenous children in Canada are denied the same level of education financing as their non native counterparts. If a female student is denied an equal education in Canada, does that not limit their options. If the females are in communities with 60 to 95% unemployment and the Indian Act denies them the right to banks and mortgages, the chances are that the 14 year old female will become a murdered and missing statistic. In Canada it is done much more quietly than the Taliban do it but the result is the same, six hundred murdered and missing indigenous women.
What is our statistic in Canada? Are seven of ten University students female?
Terrance Nelson
Terrance Nelson’s
statements on Censored News
In Iran, Terrance Nelson’s statement on Indigenous and women’s
rights
First Nation Terrance Nelson’s statement from Iran
Terrance Nelson ‘Purpose of our trip to Iran’
Press TV video
interviews with Terrance Nelson
Press TV: Terrance Nelson ‘Canada has ethnic cleansing on
its agenda’
Harper furious over Iran trip
October 13, 2012
First Nation Terrance Nelson in Iran
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| Terrance Nelson |
What Miles Doesn't Know
By Terrance Nelson, First Nation Roseau River Ojibwe
Censored News
October 13th 2012
Terrance Nelson refers to: Miles Morrisseau: If all Canadians are free to visit Iran, why not Terry Nelson
http://www.firstperspective.ca/news-releases/36-native-write s-miles-morrisseau/2046-if- all-canadians-are-free-to-visi t-iran-why-not-terry-nelson
Why does the Jewish media put Terrance Nelson on the front page of the Winnipeg Sun? Miles Morrisseau doesn't know. What a lot of First Nations people don't study is economics. The government, the media and the business people know economics and that is why they fear the indigenous people. As long as the immigrants can continue to keep First Nations people uneducated and uninformed, the more that First Nations people will be stuck chasing processes that don't deliver results. The first step to freeing ourselves is to break through the lies told in media.
I am in Tehran, a city of 20 million people. Iran is a cultured nation. Surprise, it is like a white women going to the reservation, she is told, don't go, are you crazy, you will be raped, killed and never be heard from again. Of course, the truth is that not every indigenous man is a mad rapist and surprise, there are many of us who do not even drink alcohol. Imagine that. The stereotypes aren't always true.
I grew up in an era of war. The Vietnam war was Americans believing in a lie. President Kennedy said, Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Young Americans believed in the lie that if Vietnam fell to the communists, it would create a domino effect and the world would become communist. How many Americans have been killed by Vietnamese since the end of the war? When America finally left Vietnam, when American soldiers quit killing Vietnamese in their homeland, did the Vietnamese cross the ocean to come and kill Americans in their homeland? The sad part of the Vietnam experience is that so many young Americans had to die before Americans became war weary enough to abandon killing people in their homeland.
If you listened to the Vice Presidential debate, you would have heard more lies. Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan lied so blatantly that he will convince the American voters that he is telling the truth. He said that it is possible to cut taxes 20% and still deliver all the Republican promises on the economy. That will be believed and Mitt Romney will become President because like the Greeks, Americans don't want to hear the truth. No one wants to face up to the fact that in the last 11 years, the U.S. federal deficit came up 10 trillion dollars. No one wants to pay for the last 11 years of mistakes. If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeds in dragging the United States into a war against Iran, the United States economy will collapse. If he succeeds, Netanyahu will do more damage to the United States than any terrorist has ever done. The collapse of the United States economy will cause widespread panic.
In Europe the seeds of war are being felt. Spain is near junk bond status as it's bonds have been downgraded to bbb- and Greece and Portugal are desperately trying to get Germany to bail them out. What is the problem? Part of the problem is countries buying oil at $100 a barrel. Two point seven trillion dollars a year being paid to oil producing nations by oil consuming nations. The fierce fighting occurring in many parts of the Arab world is just people feeling pressure from the economy. When the United States goes to war against the 74 million Iranians and the American economy collapses, martial law will be declared within three years in the United States as the people start acting like the people who they now look down upon. This is why I am getting front page coverage, I know economics.
We the indigenous people in the three prairie provinces are currently the most powerful people in the world. We sit on the pipelines that deliver 2.5 million barrels of oil a day to the United States. If you heard the Presidential debate, you may have heard Romney state that the day he becomes President, he will approve the Transcanada pipeline. Strange isn't it? Romney doesn't even have a clue about the indigenous people in Canada. Romney thinks that it is automatic for Canada to go to 4 million barrels of oil a day from the current 2.5 million barrels of oil per day that is flowing to the United States. I am in Tehran to ask Iran to open the doors to OPEC for the indigenous people of Canada.
I am not against the United States, but I was there when a strong delegation of the Chiefs were in Washington 12 days before the Inauguration of President Obama asking the Americans for help in dealing with the Human Rights violations in Canada. Nothing happened, Obama did nothing. Romney won't be any different, as long as Harper can tell the Americans that all is well in Canada, a confrontation in Canada between First Nations and the Government of Canada is inevitable.
I am against the new war being waged against Iran. If you love your country, what you can do for your country is to stop believing in the lie that a war against Iran will be like the war in Iraq. My loyalty is clear, I love our homeland and if you do too, study some economics, look at the cost of the new war. Don't believe in the lie that you don't have to pay for the mistakes that have been made in the last 11 years.
Terrance Nelson
Terrance Nelson’s
statements on Censored News
In Iran, Terrance Nelson’s statement on Indigenous and women’s
rights
First Nation Terrance Nelson’s statement from Iran
Terrance Nelson ‘Purpose of our trip to Iran’
Press TV video
interviews with Terrance Nelson
Press TV: Terrance Nelson ‘Canada has ethnic cleansing on
its agenda’
Harper furious over Iran trip
October 12, 2012
Bahe: DZIL YIIJIIN' Black Mesa ignored as sacred site
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Oct. 12, 2012
DZIL YIIJIIN' (Black Mesa) is a 4,000 sq. mile Sacred Site and still inhabited by Indigenous Peoples. Great Mountain (Big Mountain) covers 780 sq. miles. The growing Peabody coal mines are not only a desecration/rape of Mother Earth/Genocide but a contributor to global warming and globalized greed.
Sadly, this sacred site is ignored by environmental activism and human rights movements!!!
--By NaBahe Katenay Keediniihii, Interpreter, independent ethnographer and historian for the traditional Dineh of Big Mountain
Also: Bahe Censored on Oil and Gas Desecration in Dinetah
In 2004, while Brenda Norrell was a staff reporter for Indian Country Today, the ICT editor censored the following statement by Bahe. Censored News is the result of the censorship of this and other acts of censorship by ICT.
CENSORED
The following comments by Bahe Katenay, Navajo from
Big Mountain, Arizona, were censored and deleted by Indian Country Today in
September of 2004. With the Navajo tribal government now pressing for another
power plant in this region of Dinetah, Bahe's comments remain vital.
Katenay is responding to the fact that the Bush
administration
developed a task force to facilitate industry requests and fast track
requests for drilling. The Bureau of Land Management increased oil and
gas drilling permits by 70 percent since the previous administration.
developed a task force to facilitate industry requests and fast track
requests for drilling. The Bureau of Land Management increased oil and
gas drilling permits by 70 percent since the previous administration.
CENSORED COMMENTS:
Bahe Katenay, Navajo from Big Mountain, Ariz., said oil and gas
drilling is violating Navajos’ most sacred region, the Dine’ place of
origin, near present day Bloomfield, N.M.
Bahe Katenay, Navajo from Big Mountain, Ariz., said oil and gas
drilling is violating Navajos’ most sacred region, the Dine’ place of
origin, near present day Bloomfield, N.M.
“Gas reserves are drilled in places where White Shell Woman was found
by Talking God and places where she did her Kinalda (puberty ceremony).
“Places where the Twin Warrior Gods made their divine deeds are also
desecrated with drilling, piping, wells and recreation activities. The
Dine’ have lost these lands and their ‘puppet’ tribal government have
refused to fight for a claim to this area,” Katenay said.
Katenay point out that sacred land is being violated while many Navajos
haul propane tanks in the backs of their trucks for fuel to cook with.
“What would the Christians do if their Holy Lands were dotted with
natural gas pumping stations and strands of pipelines crisscrossed
everywhere?” Katenay asked.
“Then to make things worst, what if these gas reserves were illegally
tapped with permission from a puppet government that is made up of
their own people. Finally, how would they feel if these natural
resources were being bought off cheap from their nation, exported away
to another country and none made available for their use?
“To the Dine', this has happened when our Holy
Lands were made
available to gas companies in northwestern New Mexico in a region known
to us as Dinetah.
available to gas companies in northwestern New Mexico in a region known
to us as Dinetah.
“Today, several major gas pipelines are routed
out towards southern
California. Many Dine’ of course have to pay for the natural gas or
propane from companies that desecrate their Holy Lands. Many Dine'
household do not receive piping so they haul their propane bottles to
the local markets to get them filled.”
California. Many Dine’ of course have to pay for the natural gas or
propane from companies that desecrate their Holy Lands. Many Dine'
household do not receive piping so they haul their propane bottles to
the local markets to get them filled.”
Katenay said the place of Dine’ origin, Dinetah in northwestern New
Mexico, still holds ancient archaeological sites and a large portion of
the creation stories related to all geographical features of that area.
Energy development threatens the Navajos’ Four Sacred Mountains,
located in the region from Flagstaff, Ariz., southern Colorado and
northern New Mexico, he said.
“I travel from Black Mesa to these areas when I can. I am disturbed
every time I come back to my Holy Land. I see new drilling and new
roads that scar the wooded mesas and buttes. I always wonder if the
Spirits of our Creators are still alive there. Despite this, I still
get a sense of healing when I look upon Gobernador Knob or Huerfano
Mesa and its surrounding canyonlands.
“But I am also saddened when I think that, because these lands were
given away for profit, the rest of our sacred lands everywhere are
being desecrated, today: Mount Taylor, San Francisco Mountains, and Big
Mountain.”
(In 2004, a report by the Environmental Working
Group’s showed the
federal government has offered 27.9 million acres of public and private
land in New Mexico for oil and gas drilling. New Mexico ranked second
among 12 western states for lands currently leased and second for the
amount of land currently producing oil and gas.
San Juan County, the place of origin of Dine’, was among the top three
counties targeted, along with Eddy and Lea counties, according to the
2004 report.)
federal government has offered 27.9 million acres of public and private
land in New Mexico for oil and gas drilling. New Mexico ranked second
among 12 western states for lands currently leased and second for the
amount of land currently producing oil and gas.
San Juan County, the place of origin of Dine’, was among the top three
counties targeted, along with Eddy and Lea counties, according to the
2004 report.)
Here's the article that Bahe's comments were
deleted from:http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1094828926
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