Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 20, 2020

Sterilization of Native women and lack of informed consent in medical experiments in boarding schools and IHS hospitals


Phoenix Indian School 1951.

With the coronavirus vaccine experiment underway on the Navajo Nation, Censored News examines informed consent and medical experiments on Native People


The sterilizations of Native women and lack of informed consent were exposed in 1976. Dangerous medical experiments were conducted in boarding schools and Indian Health Service hospitals on O'odham, Apache and Navajo without public knowledge.

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

The exposure of medical experiments on Native Americans in Indian Health Service hospitals in the 1970s revealed the sterilization of Native women without their consent. Dangerous medical experiments on O'odham (Pima) were conducted, including the injection of radioactive fluid. Whiteriver Apache children were most often used in medical experiments without parental consent. Navajo children in boarding schools were used in medical experiments and a dangerous vaccine trial was halted at Gallup Indian Medical Center.

In a U.S. government document dated Nov. 4, 1976, the United States, under pressure, revealed some of these medical experiments underway in IHS hospitals of the U.S. government. Although it is not a complete list, it documents the sterilization of Native women, the role of drug companies attempting to profit, and the disregard for parental consent of Native children in boarding schools and IHS hospitals.

October 18, 2020

Rapid City police invade Lakota ceremony, tear down encampment for houseless and arrest six people




Photo: Six persons arrested on Friday night were released on Saturday.

Rapid City police invade Lakota ceremony, tear down encampment for houseless and arrest six people


By Candi Brings Plenty
Censored News
Friday, Oct. 16, 2020

Our Akićita were in prayer, you could hear the beautiful ceremony songs being sung as the Rapid City Police Department interrupted them and forcibly removed them. They also dragged out a Lakota Unči (grandmother) while she was too was in prayer.

RAPID CITY, South Dakota -- Every Friday for the past two years our community Oyaté has provided a meal for our houseless relatives hosted by the grassroots organization OyateKin ChanteWastepi. The Mni Luzahan Patrol, have been foot patrolling the Rapid Creek since this summer, because in August there were eight Indigenous homicides in our city and two were houseless relatives sleeping by the creek. And just this week we had two houseless Indigenous relatives die sleeping outside. 

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MNN. Oct. 17, 2020. We are extensions of our ancestors. We are survivors of a treacherous road which we will never forget. We want peace according to the kaianerekowa, the great peace. Form and sound work together to show us what peace is like. The invaders stopped our connection to our people, land and environment. We are part of dimensions which the invaders can’t see. We’ve thought about removing the invaders. But we see they are taking themselves out.

October 17, 2020

Trump Jr. and Navajo Vice President Super Spreader Virus Event Endangered High-Risk Native Elderly and Children

 

Donald Trump Jr. arrived without a mask and was welcomed by Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer, in Williams, Arizona, on Thursday, after the coronavirus spread through the Trump family and White House, endangering Native elderly, youths and children at the rally.

This weekend, Oct. 17 and 18, the Navajo Nation reported 95 new cases of COVID-19. Now, 573 Navajo have died from the virus. More than 3,500 Dine' have the virus who have not recovered.


Photo: Trump Jr. gives Navajo President Lizer a hug in Williams on Thursday, after the coronavirus spread through the Trump family and White House. Photo: Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff.


Trump Jr. and Navajo Vice President's Virus Super Speader near Flagstaff endangered high-risk Native elderly and children

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

WILLIAMS, Arizona -- Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer and Donald Trump Jr. ignored the coronavirus spreading through the Trump family and White House staff at a rally on Thursday and endangered high-risk Native elderly and children. Trump Jr. was among those not wearing masks.

While promoting Trump, Navajo Vice President Lizer ignored President Trump's promotion of racism and racial violence, attacks on tribal sovereignty, persistent threat to human rights, caging of Indigenous migrant children, destruction of Native burial places for the border wall, and Trump's disregard for the spread of the coronavirus which has caused the deaths of 571 Navajos.

Vice President Lizer introduced Trump Jr. at the super spreader event at the rodeo grounds.



Arriving in Williams, Arizona, Donald Trump Jr. was among
those not wearing a mask and endangering Native elderly and children.


The super spreader event comes as the coronavirus spiked in the Four Corners region.

All this week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham warned of extreme danger from "uncontrollable virus spread." The State of Colorado posted a long list of schools and grocery stores with virus outbreaks, and an Arizona family lost 8 members due to the virus. On Friday night, one of the largest hospitals in Salt Lake City, Utah, said it was out of ICU beds because of the rapid spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, while the Navajo Vice President rallied at the super spreader virus event, the Office of the Navajo President and Vice President continued a media campaign telling Navajos to stay home and lockdown -- even though there is no home delivery of food and water to desperate Dine'.

Although the Navajo Nation is under mandatory lockdown this week, there is no uniform delivery of food and water to the sick and desperate. This includes Dine' elderly, people too sick to care for themselves, families with young children with no transportation, and those with the virus sent home by hospitals and told to quarantine.

The highly-publicized giveaways of donated items by the Navajo President's office resulted in the false perception by the public that the most desperate Dine' are receiving help.

Although the Navajo Nation received $714 million in federal virus emergency relief more than four months ago from the CARES Act, the funds have not been distributed to Dine' in need. There are 300,000 Navajos living in 110 chapters. 

The coronavirus spread through the Trump family and the White House during October. President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron all tested positive for coronavirus.

President Trump plans a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona, on Monday and to stop at the Tucson International Airport at 3 p.m. today, Monday.

(Photo below) This event at the White House on Sept. 26 resulted in the spread of the coronavirus through the Trump family and White House. Article