Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 15, 2023

Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

Photo by Rob Wilson


Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
April 15, 2023
Updated April 17, 2023

With the release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, the Intercept published its first article this week, revealing the details of how the mercenaries spied on Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

National Sheriffs' Association helped target LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

The TigerSwan spy files reveal that the mercenaries targeted individuals like LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, now in the Spirit World, who provided her home as the base of the Sacred Stone Camp when the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline began in 2016.

April 13, 2023

The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

 
The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat
April 14, 2023
Updated April 16, 2023

The Intercept and Grist began releasing new TigerSwan spy documents in new coverage of the mercenaries hired by the Dakota Access Pipeline. They now have 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, and another 9,000 are held up in the court battle for now. The documents reveal TigerSwan spying on Water Protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, Bold Iowa, and at other locations.

Reporters  and  expose the new spy documents in their article, After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies.

The University of Minnesota Committed Genocide


Ojibwe and Dakota were Targets of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by the University of Minnesota

By Dan Kraker and Melissa Olson
Minnesota Public Radio
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A massive new report details the University of Minnesota’s long history of mistreating the state’s Native people and lays out recommendations, including “perpetual reparations,” to improve relations between the university and Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations.

Among its troubling findings, the report by the TRUTH (Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing) Project concludes:

-- The U’s founding board of regents “committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain, using the institution as a shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources.”

April 11, 2023

Driver Killing Myron Dewey Enters Plea Agreement of Guilty for Manslaughter


Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey

Driver of truck killing Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey enters into a plea agreement for a lesser charge

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

TONOPAH, Nevada -- John Walsh, the driver responsible for killing Paiute journalist Myron Dewey in a head-on collision on an isolated dirt road, entered a plea of guilty for vehicular manslaughter Tuesday afternoon, in the criminal case before Tonopah Justice Court Judge Jennifer Klapper.

Walsh's attorney entered the plea of the lesser charge of guilty for manslaughter. The plea agreement was arranged by Walsh's attorney and the prosecutor, a Nye County District Attorney, newly appointed to the case.

Myron's death remains suspicious as he was battling both the expansion of the Navy Seals Bombing Range in Fallon, pushed by the Nevada Congressmen, and a Canadian company's lithium mine on the Paiute Massacre site at Thacker Pass, promoted by President Biden.