Bad Bear's Photos: Long Walk 4 Lamar, Colorado

Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker. Thank you!

Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz will reach Pueblo, Colorado, on Friday. After six straight days of walking 30 miles each day, the walkers will have a gathering on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, at the Pueblo Library, followed by a potluck. The walkers will be walking through Pueblo on Sunday, Oct. 20, and hope others in Colorado will join them from Denver, Colorado Springs and other towns.

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CALIFORNIANS TO PROTEST GOV. BROWN’S ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD

The Browning of the Greens

WHAT: Protest of Jerry Brown receiving environmental award

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 17, 5:30-7 - Speeches/Press Conference at 6

WHERE: Le Parc Hotel, 55 Cyril Magnin St. San Francisco  

By Donald Goldmacher

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On Thursday, October 17, approximately 200 California residents will be outside Le Parc Hotel in San Francisco protesting the Blue Green Alliance’s honoring of Governor Jerry Brown with its Right Stuff Award. In particular, the protest will focus on Brown’s support for fracking, a massive twin tunnels project and his emissions trading scheme. The protest was organized by a group of individuals unaffiliated with national environmental organizations who were galvanized by Brown’s most recent assault on the environment: the green lighting of fracking in California. 

Honoring Horse Nation: Dine' Trail Ride to Tuba City Fair Photos

Kris Barney

Photos by Kris Barney, Dine'. Thanks for sharing with Censored News!

By Leland Grass

Traditionally "Sacred" means left unharmed, undisturbed and unexposed to desecration. (If disturbed, it will hurt back.) But for those in politics, it means "to control it." Their point of view is that sacred is to be placed in a box or removed. Navajo Nation is claiming they can not have sacred being on the reservation do to its damages on land. Navajo Nation to the Horse: It was blamed for forage and water shortage and drought, too sacred to starve or disease to take a toll on them, an order for it to be removed off the reservation never to return. 

Now, Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly reversed its claim on the horse issues, and said that is a Land management problem. So is there a drought, or a management problem, or both? Erny Zah, states in the last newspaper interview, "we had a whole lot of rain but we are still in a drought state." The Navajo Nation is not at all on one page. Erny Zah says this, and Navajo Nation President Shelly says it differently, then Erny Zah address is the opposite, Their reaction leaving the Dine' people in mixed feelings and lost. What you think the Chapter houses officials are thinking now? I know, they don't give a dam, except to get paid, that's about it. Do we want those leaders to be our leaders again. Ben Shelly did enough damage without a plan or survey to back him up. Many people got their emotions played with and even physical hurt to them and also the animals. There are not 75,000 feral horses as they claim, with only 1,500 horses capture. This includes the horses that were being domestically taken care of, and were taken out of the Dine' peoples' corral, this made the number. Animal cruelty is evident from Navajo Nation President and the administration in the last two months of the Horse round up. How is he going repay that? Last time I checked there was a law about animal cruelty in the federal government. The Horse Nation has a law of its own by the holy people who made them.

Mohawk John Kane 'Change the Name or End the Genocide'

John Kane

By John Kane, Mohawk
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Change the Name or End the Genocide?

To suggest there are many and far more pressing issues facing Native people than being exploited and insulted by sports teams is an obvious understatement. Should the NFL franchise from the capital of one of the world’s superpowers change its name? Of course it should. As should all those high school, college and pro sports teams that appropriate their image of us as though we are a dead part of their history.