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| Photos by Ed Becenti, published with permission
By Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- When the University of Arizona in Tucson invited a water rights attorney who is protested by Dine', traditional Dine' made the long journey from the northern part of the state to southern Arizona to both protest the selection of the attorney to speak and to educate the university about Dine' water rights and true sovereignty.
Louise Benally of Big Mountain (above) was among the speakers. Benally's family has resisted forced relocation since the 1970s. The so-called Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute was actually orchestrated by an attorney working for Peabody Coal. The scheme was designed to remove Navajos from their homelands to make way for Peabody's coal mines on Black Mesa. More than 14,000 Navajos were relocated to make way for the coal mines. Some elderly died of broken hearts after being removed from their homelands.
The coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Nation near Page, Ariz., supplies electricity to southern Arizona and uses enormous amounts of water, while polluting the region and causing sickness for Navajos and others in the Southwest.
Meanwhile, most Navajos in the area live without electricity and are forced to drive long distances to haul their water.
Navajos speaking at the University of Arizona protested the selection of Stanley Pollack, hired by the Navajo Nation government as the tribe's water rights attorney. Dine' said Pollack is not serving the best interests of Navajos. The elected Navajo Nation government continues to sign leases with the dirty coal industry, and recently purchased a coal mine.
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February 23, 2014
Traditional Dine' educate University of Arizona on water rights
Photos Tucson Peace Fair 2014: Defenders of Human Rights!
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| Never giving up, Isabel Garcia, Derechos Humanos, battling for migrants rights |
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| Raging Grannies taking on Obama, singing of Obama's broken promises |
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| Hopi Foundation's 'Owl and Panther' poetry and arts for children victims of torture and exile |
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| Iskashitaa Refugee Network sustainable community: Harvesting Hope, Empowering Dreams . 
'Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime' No More Deaths rescuing dying migrants in the desert
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Mohawk Nation News 'World War III'
WORLD WAR III
MNN. FEB. 22, 2014. US President Obama thinks he can beat President Putin of Russia at diplomacy, war, intelligence and propaganda. It’s so complex. They’re both powerful. Let’s try and simplify it as we did in the Great Law using tewa’ara:ton. We want to know who the toughest guy on earth is!
February 21, 2014
Video Indigenous New Media Symposium
Chase Iron Eyes, Last Real Indians, speaks on using the new media to create a truly sustainable future, including new sources of heating homes, during the Indigenous New Media Symposium in New York on Friday.
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The Indigenous New Media Symposium is a brilliant presentation on current issues, and how New Media is ushering in a new millennium of Native America. The issues range from appropriations in Native fashion and new collaborations in music to sustainable energy futures.
The issues of authenticity and colonialism are explored as Native media makers examine how social media -- particularly on the issues of exploitation and breaking news -- is changing their world.
Censored News recommends the symposium video for school classrooms and university classes and research.
These Indigenous news makers remind us that the best advice for writers is to "write what you know." For journalists, it is a reminder that there is no substitute for being present. For all, the presentations are a reminder to live your truth.
Adrienne Keene, Cherokee: On Indigenous New Media: http://nativeappropriations.com
(First panelist) Adrienne Keene describes how Native symbols, ceremonial items and designs are abused in fashion and advertising.
Adrienne also describes how the New Media is creating a global community, providing resources and vocabulary for Native people to speak out and creating a forum to debate issues of white privilege, colonialism and power.
Adrienne Keene is the author of Native Appropriations, a blog dedicated to pushing back against stereotypes and misrepresentations of Native peoples. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Adrienne is passionate about reframing how the world sees contemporary Native cultures. Through her writing and activism, she questions and problematizes the ways Indigenous peoples are represented in fashion, the media, and pop culture -- asking for celebrities, large corporations, and designers to consider the ways they incorporate "Native" elements into their work. Outside of the blog, Adrienne is a doctoral student in Culture, Communities, and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research focuses on Native students navigating the college application and transition processes, highlighting stories of resilience and success.
Jessica Metcalfe, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, describes appropriations of Native American fashions on the New Media panel. She points out that warriors are artists and historians. She also reveals how Oprah and Ralph Lauren sold out Native Americans. Jessica, keeping it real living in a small town, is on the web at Beyond Buckskin http://www.beyondbuckskin.com Jessica Metcalfe has co-curated exhibitions and taught college courses in Native American studies, studio art, art history, and literature. Her current work focuses on American Indian art, clothing, and design from all time periods, with an emphasis on contemporary artists. She promotes authentic Native fashions and provides information on where to purchase these, while exposing appropriations and profiteers.
Jarrett Martineau:Jarrett describes his vision of new music and the collaborations giving birth to new sound.
REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, DECOLONIZING MEDIA, INDIGENOUS NATIONHOOD MOVEMENT
Jarrett Martineau is a Cree/Dene scholar, media producer, journalist, musician, and community organizer from Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta, Canada. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria—and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics. http://rpm.fm
Chase Iron EyesLAST REAL INDIANS
Chase Iron Eyes, Lakota Sioux from Standing Rock, is a founder of Last Real Indians, a media resource for original indigenous content creating the New Indigenous Millennium.
On the New Media panel, Chase speaks on the creation of the Last Real Indians, and the protests that led to the current explosion of interest in Last Real Indians in social media. Those first actions included the protests of the Keystone XL pipeline, and a Lakota victim in a Rapid City hospital who had the words "KKK" carved into his body while hospitalized. Chase also describes the work of establishing new sources of heat for Lakota lands.
Chase is a Tribal judge, Lakota Peoples Law Project Staff Attorney and 7th Generation fund grant recipient. Chase received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and his lawdegree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. http://lastrealindians.com
Clayton Thomas Muller, whose plane was unable to land in New York, shared this video from the plane with the New Media Symposium
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