Vision Maker Native Film Festival -- Watch free online Oct. 10 -- Nov. 13, 2022

Vision Maker Film Festival Begins Today, Monday!

Vision Maker Media's ninth biennial

By Vision Maker Media

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Now Playing, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022: Sister Wolves and the films below.

https://visionmakermedia.org/sister-wolves

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SISTER WOLVES

BEN-ALEX DUPRIS, COLVILLE
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

Ben-Alex Dupris is an enrolled member of the Colville Tribes in Washington State, and also Mnicoujou Lakota. He is a director-producer working within the paradigm of Indigenous storytelling. He is a Concordia Studio Artist-in-Residence alumni, and a Firelight Media Impact Producer's Fellow. His film "Sweetheart Dancers" won the Grand Jury for Best Short at Outfest LA 2019 and his upcoming PBS American Master's film follows political painter Bunky Echo-Hawk. Currently he is producing "Paulette," for Director Heather Rae and Women Make Movies, and "Firecracker Bullets" for Chad Charlie and Vision Maker Media.

Watch now 
https://visionmakermedia.org/sister-wolves

The Vision Maker Media Film Festival is a free hybrid event beginning October 10 and continuing through November 13, 2022 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and online. This year we are celebrating the theme TOGETHER.

The Vision Maker Film Festival will feature 5 weeks of American Indian, Alaska Native, and worldwide Indigenous films--with each week featuring a new theme.

New Mexico Order Rescinding 1800s Orders to Kill Navajos and Apaches

New Mexico Governor Rescinds 1800s-era Proclamations Targeting Navajo and Apache to be Hunted and Killed

Geronimo and warriors in the Sierra Madres of Mexico in 1886

Public Domain/ New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, American History 1880s, C.S. Fly

New Mexico Governor rescinds four genocidal 1800s-era proclamations from 

former New Mexico governors

Article by Brenda Norrell

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French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7427

Documents at Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/10/new-mexico-resolution-rescinding-1800s.html

SANTA FE, New Mexico -- New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham rescinded governors' orders from the 1800s that targeted Navajos and Apaches to be hunted by militia and murdered. The previous governors orders had never been rescinded, which required an executive order of the governor.

Gov. Lujan Grisham's executive order on Monday, Indigenous Peoples Day, is the result of extensive research by Santa Fe Historian Valerie Rangel, who documented the genocide and appealed to the governor to take action and rescind the orders. Rangel's research led her to the Rare Books section of Huntington Library in Californa.

The vile and racist orders by Gov. Calhoun in his proclamations in 1851 directed Native residents to be excluded from official census counts and authorized militias to “pursue and attack” Indigenous New Mexicans.

Mexico's Government Spy Files on Yaqui and Zapatistas in Europe Leaked by Hacker Collective

Mexico's Secretary of Defense spy files include the photos shown above: Zapatistas in their communities; Zapatistas tour in Europe, and aerial images. Mexico's government spy files include profiles on Zapatistas and their supporters, Indigenous movement leaders, professors, farmers, and women leaders.

Mexico's Government Spy Files on Yaqui and Zapatistas in Europe Leaked by Hacker Collective

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

A hacker collective leaked the spy files of Mexico's Ministry of Defense, revealing spying on the Zapatistas and their supporters during the Journey for Life in Europe in 2021. The spy files include Mexico's targeting of both powerful Indigenous women and Indigenous movement leaders in Mexico.

The files were released by the hacktivists Guacamaya.

The leaked files reveal the Mexican government spying on the Yaqui Traditional Authority in Vicam, Sonora, where Vicam Yaqui spokesmen have been kidnapped, imprisoned, and assassinated.

Vicam Yaqui protested the theft of their water for an aqueduct taking Yaqui River water to the city of Hermosillo. Vicam Yaqui have maintained highway blockades for years in defense of their water on a major highway, slowing down the flow of commercial trucks to the U.S. and elsewhere.

Top photo: Vicam Yaqui Spokesperson Tomas Rojo, a soft-spoken agricultural engineer, was kidnapped and brutally murdered in 2021. Tomas was found buried in the desert outside the village. Photo 2: International Water Forum hosted by Vicam Yaqui Traditional Authority in Vicam, Sonora in 2012. Photo by Brenda Norrell, Censored News. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/video-yaqui-foro-internacional-del-agua.html

The new spy files of Mexico's Defense Department on Yaqui in Vicam are especially chilling since the exposure follows a series of assassinations of Vicam Yaqui.