Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 14, 2015

Northern Calif 'Tribal Voices Radio' Live



James Browneagle
Tribal Voices Radio LIVE
April 14, 2015

Host James Browneagle

LIVE April 14, 2015
5:00-6:00 PM on KPFZ 88.1 FM Lake County Community Radio in Northern California. Streaming at www.Tunein.com (type in kpfz.) Live studio phone line is (707) 263-3435. The latest tribal news, info and discussion with tribal elders. Celebrating 16 years on Community Radio! 
"All My Relations"



James Browneagle: Tribal Community Organizer and Traditional cultural leader
Survivor of the U.S. Genocide and Colonization of traditional tribal leaders (relocation, termination, Boarding School and disenfranchisement. Dedicated alcohol and drug free Traditional Pomo Cultural leader and tribal mentor, activist for environmental justice and decolonization of tribal governments. Spent the past 30 plus years as champion of Indian Tribal Self-determination (Tribal Administrator, Indian Health Director, Indian Education Director and ICWA advocate etc.) a High School graduate with only a few college units began working for Indian organizations and tribal governments since 1972, also former board members of ITCC, CIMC, and CIEA. Former tribal elected positions, Tribal Chairman, (1998-2000, when I participated and signed the State of California/Indian gaming compact) 3 different terms as Secretary/Treasurer, and one term as Council member of my tribe and appointed Elem Tribal Historian in 2006 and a former NAGPRA Coordinator and acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) 2007-2009 for another Lake County Tribe. Since 1998, volunteered as a Host and Programmer of the Tribal Voices Radio on Lake County Community Radio KPFZ 88.1 FM discuss all tribal topics including dis-enrollment, Casino Federal, BIA, State & County Government and tribal leader corruption. Including racism by non-Indians.   
Dedicated Elem Roundhouse ceremonial leader, mentoring of new dancers, maintaining tribal cultural ceremonies. Co-founder and first Executive Director of the first 100% controlled Tribal Health Consortium , uniting all the tribes in Lake County. Spear headed the Elem tribal Environmental Justice activities by community organizing and nomination of the Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine to the U.S. EPA Superfund for clean up on the Elem reservation a.k.a. Elem Indian Colony/Pomo Indians

Apaches at Oak Flat 'Never Surrender!'





Occupying Sacred Oak Flat, Resisting Resolution Copper Mine 

By Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache
Censored News

"WE ARE APACHES AND WE NEVER GIVE UP. WE ARE HERE IN PRAYER AND STILL OCCUPYING OUR SACRED ANCESTRAL LAND. CREATOR GOD GAVE US THIS LAND TO TAKE CARE OF AND TO CONTINUE OUR HOLY CEREMONIES. WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE CARE OF OUR SACRED SITES AND WE WILL BE BLESSED FOR OUR SACRIFICES MADE IN BEHALF OF OUR MOTHER EARTH. WE ARE STILL HERE AT CHI'CHIL'BILDA'GOTEEL." 
--Anthony Logan, Apache Holy Ground Medicine Man at Chi'Chil'Bilda'Goteel (Oak Flat) in southeast Arizona where occupation continues today. Pictured with him are Apache tribal elders.

Thank you Sandra Rambler, and Apaches at Oak Flat, for sharing with Censored News.

April 13, 2015

Photos 'Walk for Life' on Dineh and Hopi lands




Thanks to Bahe Katenay of Big Mountain for sharing news
of this Walk for Life on Dineh and Hopi lands.
They are walking on the scars of uranium and coal mining.
Photos by Inochino Koshin of Japan.
Thank you from Censored News

Journey for Existence 'Tl'izi brings us together'



By Nihigaal bee lina
Censored News
April 11, 2015

Navajo Station, Navajo Nation -- Today we were honored to connect with our food directly. Some of us learned the skill of butchering for the first time. It is all a part of coming home to ourselves, knowing where our food comes from, that the animals we eat are treated with respect and care. The process of preparing and eating this tł'izi brought all the walkers together with a very beautiful family. We learned how to honor the animal by using every last piece of it. Through this skill we are not beholden to any system, we are able to feed ourselves. This is how we become the masters of our own destiny. The sound of the blade on the pelt is the sound of Diné liberation. So thankful to this tł'izi and to our ancestors for passing down the art of self-sufficiency.

Nihigaal bee lina: Journey for Existence
The Navajo Nation sits on one of the richest energy corridors in the United States, and for close to a century, we have been on the frontline on resource colonization to provide cheap energy and water to the cities in the Southwest. Since the 1920's, our land and people have been sacrificed for energy extraction for oil, gas, uranium, and coal, which is poisoning our land, water, air, and people.