Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 9, 2023

The Censoring of Mount Graham: Vatican's Telescope now a marker of genocide


The Vatican Advanced Telescope on Mount Graham is a physical marker in this era when the Pope has confirmed that the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide at Native residential schools in Canada.

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

It has been one of the most censored issues: The Pope and the University of Arizona in Tucson discrediting Apaches sacred way of life, battling Apaches for years to put their telescope on Mount Graham, arresting Wendsler Nosie, Sr., for praying on the mountian, and now a New York state college has said 'No' to giving a Vatican telescope scientist an honorary doctorate because of it.

April 6, 2023

Southwest Alaska Native Nations file federal suit to halt Donlin Gold mine



The massive proposed open-pit gold mine and its toxic chemicals threaten salmon, human health, and Native peoples' traditional ways of life

By Earthjustice 
April 5, 2023
Censored News


ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Three Native Nations in the Kuskokwim River region of Southwest Alaska, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court today challenging the Donlin Gold Mine, a project that would be the largest pure gold mine in the world.

April 5, 2023

Hereditary Chiefs Grabbed and Isolated at Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting

Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting 

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
April 5, 2023

SASKATOON -- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na'moks was violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting today. "Such a racist act, they've actually laid hands on me, a Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief on my regalia just now," Chief Na'Moks told the RBC, as snipers were stationed on the buildings where traditional elders gathered in an Indigenous delegation.

April 4, 2023

San Carlos Apache Chairman to Biden: Copper mine approval would be human rights violation



San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Condemns Any Plan by Biden Administration to Advance the Proposed Resolution Copper Mine as a Human Rights Violation 

 

By San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler

Censored News

April 4, 2023 

French translation for Censored News by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7831


SAN CARLOS APACHE NATION — San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler today sharply criticized reports that the Biden Administration is preparing to approve the proposed Resolution Mine that would destroy sacred Indigenous land located at Oak Flat on the Tonto National Forest about 70 miles east of Phoenix. “Obliterating Oak Flat for a copper mine will be a grave human rights violation against Indigenous people and an environmental catastrophe,” Chairman Rambler said. “Only China and shareholders of the two largest foreign mining companies in the world will benefit.”