American Indians demand US fulfill Treaty obligations during shutdown

American Indian Nations demand US fulfill Trust and Treaty obligations during US government shutdown

By United Native Americans

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October 7, 2013

Noon until 2 pm, with press conference, at BIA

SACRAMENTO, CA - United Native Americans, in solidarity with Idle No More Global Day of Action will host a peaceful rally and press conference Monday, October 7, 2013 at the John Moss Building. Central California Agency/Bureau of Indian Affairs located 650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California to address the issues regarding the government shut down and its effects on the American Indian community. The event will begin at noon and end at 2:00 PM. 

We as the indigenous community demand that the humanitarian crisis, that our people are suffering from be acknowledged and resolved immediately. We demand that the federal government continue to honor all treaties made between the United States government and the Indigenous People of North America before the shutdown. 

Many people around the globe are currently unaware of the humanitarian crisis that is affecting America's First Nation people and that it is due to the US federal government shut down. The federal government has all but cut its aid to the American Indian community.

Photos Dine' for Wild Horses at Shiprock Fair Parade

Thank you Legacy, Dine' for Wild Horses, for allowing Censored News to share your photos above from Shiprock Fair and Parade!
"Shi'zeehi' (father) Jones Benally , shi (Me) doi shi' na'heh' (big brother) Kenneth Davis, doi shi'ts'li' (lil Brother) Clayson Benally. Great times at the ship rock parade. Oct 2013"

Photo by Jenn M. Harvey, thanks for sharing with Censored News!

Water is Life: No uranium mining in Black Hills Oct 7, 2013

By Carla Rae Marshall
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On Oct. 7th Powertech Uranium Mining water permit hearing begins at the Ramkota in Rapid City. Powertech is seeking 551 gallons of water per minute from the Madison Aquifer and 8,500 gallons of water per minute from the Inyan Kara Formation totaling 13 million gallons of water PER DAY for 20 years to mine the toxic yellow-cake in the Southern Black Hills. Rapid City’s 2012 water usage only came to 11.35 million gallons per day according to City of Rapid City Water Division’s report. In other words, Powertech would use more water per day then one small city. Unbelievable that South Dakota is even thinking of committing water suicide with this one!

Ben Carnes urges national debate in case of Leonard Peltier

Obama urged to call for national debate in Peltier case

By Ben Carnes, Choctaw

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Ben Carnes, Choctaw

Ben Carnes, Choctaw from Oklahoma, calls for a national debate in the case of Leonard Peltier. Carnes said it is necessary “to effectively make a difference in securing freedom for a man who could be any one of us from back then, to today, and in the future our children who may stand up and say ‘enough is enough.’”

In 1999, when the FBI agents protested in front of the White House over Clinton meeting with some people from Peltier's camp, I had an opportunity to speak with Jon Sennett who was over the retired FBI agents association.

I asked him then if he would be interested in doing a public debate over the case. He jumped at this idea. I realized then that these agents don't even know the facts of the case themselves. They will stick together, right or wrong.
A few years ago, when I was with the LPDOC (Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee,) we pushed for a public debate, even went so far as to humiliate Woods and Trimbach (retired agents) as being afraid to debate this publicly. They quietly wrote that it couldn't happen.
There is one important element that needs to happen for this debate to be effective. Obama needs to call for it! Think about it, if we can get Obama to call for it, this subject becomes a part of the public opinion. And all eyes will be on Obama and Peltier.
So how do we get Obama to call for this, let alone even acknowledge there is such a person as Leonard Peltier? It is simple, but it demands that we act now. The White House Tribal Nations Conference is coming up Nov. 13th.

Contact, face to face, every tribal member to tell Obama that he needs to call for a public debate on the case of Leonard Peltier. Tell him that the Indian people know the Justice Department lies and we want to expose the truth. Tell Obama if he is serious about respecting Native people then call for a public debate right then and right there.
We have only so much time to be proceed, otherwise we condemn Leonard to spin another year in prison, and if your representative returns without so much as saying a word, then let them have it when they get back.