Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

March 18, 2019

Taos Water Guardian shares risk to aquifers after four days atop drilling rig


Buck Johnston shares why he strapped himself atop a drilling rig near Taos. The aquifers, local wells, rivers and all life are at risk.
Buck was arrested Sunday when he descended. Buck smoked the Sacred Pipe in handcuffs after spending four days and nights atop the drilling rig in the cold.
Buck was released from jail on Monday.
Watch Buck's video update:
.https://m.facebook.com/buck.johnston.31

Bears Ears runners run with Longest Walk in Utah, photos by Bad Bear 2019














Photos by Western Shoshone Longwalker Carl Bad Bear Sampson.
Bad Bear said of the walkers and runners, "We did 40 miles today."
Longest Walk 2019 was in Scipio, Utah on Sunday, headed for Grand Junction and Pueblo, Colorado

.Below: Runners from the Bears Ears Prayer Run

March 17, 2019

TAOS Buck Johnston descends drill rig in ceremony, arrested


Update Monday: Buck was released from jail.

Taos Water Guardian Buck Johnston descended from atop a drilling rig on Sunday and completed his Four Day Ceremony in Prayer. In handcuffs, Buck smoked the Sacred Pipe.
Buck's sister Lyla June Johnston describes how his courageous action was done with love. A crowd cheered as he came down the drilling rig, after he spent four days and nights strapped atop the rig in the cold.
Watch Lyla's video report which includes how Taos aquifers are now threatened:

Lyla writes:


March 16, 2019

Taos Water Protector is On Top of Drilling Rig -- and He's Live!

Buck Johnston is on top of a drilling rig near Taos, New Mexico, in defense of the water. Buck is broadcasting live and plans to stay 4 days. Watch: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100026931670155
Update Friday morning -- Buck survived the blizzard Thursday night. His bro, a fellow Warrior, climbed up the drilling rig to bring him a phone charger.
"That's the kind of action I'm trying to inspire," Buck said, a top the drilling rig on ancestral Pueblo land, in the pristine region now known as Taos.
Watch: https://m.facebook.com/FreeTaosPueblo/
Update Saturday: Buck remains atop the rig, after they cut away his hammock in the cold. Buck remains strapped to the rig in a Four Day Ceremony. Listen to report:
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Update Monday: Buck has been released from jail and is with his family.