Justice and Freedom for Leonard Peltier: Appeal to United Nations Indigenous Forum

                                   Leonard Peltier/Photo by Gloria LaRiva


Statement to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

22nd Session
April 25, 2023
AIM-West Oral Intervention
Item #4

Each year we are saddened to remind this forum that Mr. Leonard Peltier, Anishinabe and Dakota and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has been wrongfully incarcerated by the United States since 1976. Leonard Peltier was a leader of the American Indian Movement, a historic civil rights group founded to combat the oppression of Native Americans in the United States.

Foreign Mining Giants Join U.S. to Seize Apaches Sacred Oak Flat in Court

Apache Stronghold at federal court/Photo Apache Stronghold

Foreign mining giants enter the legal fight to seize sacred Native land

Rio Tinto and BHP’s Resolution Copper seek to join forces with the feds to destroy Oak Flat

By Apache Stronghold

April 21, 2023

WASHINGTON – A massive foreign-owned mining corporation has joined forces with the United States government in its ongoing legal battle to destroy Oak Flat, an ancient Apache sacred site in Arizona.In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a coalition of Western Apaches is fighting to stop the federal government from giving Oak Flat to a mining giant that will swallow the site in a nearly two-mile-wide, 1,100-foot-deep crater—ending Apache religious practices forever (Watch this short video to learn more).

Live Coverage United Nations Indigenous Permanent Forum

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk addressed UN Indigenous Forum this morning. Screenshot by Censored News

World governments are rushing to defend their human rights records again today -- as the second week of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues  begins in New York

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Monday, April 24, 2023

NEW YORK -- Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk spoke on the extermination policies of California and false solutions for climate change, including genetically-modified organisms for climate change. Native people who are not federally recognized, like the Winnemem Wintu, currently have no rights and no way to ensure their survival in the United States, Chief Sisk told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as the second week began today.

Mongolian Youth Tells United Nations -- China's Cultural Genocide Costing Lives and Language

Mongolian youth describes China's cultural genocide at U.N. Indigenous Permanent Forum.

Mongolian Youth Tells United Nations -- China's Cultural Genocide Costing Lives and Language

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News©

NEW YORK -- A Mongolian youth representative told the United Nations that China's cultural genocide in Mongolia has cost lives, and now the Mongolian language is at risk during the widespread crackdown in the name of 'Chinese supremacy.'

"Eleven Mongolians lost their lives in defense of the rights to their Mother Tongue," she told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.