Peltier, Oak Flat and Enbridge Line 5: Priorities in UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report

The U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues urged UNESCO to step up the protection of world heritage sites to protect sites from the mining giant Rio Tinto, including Apaches Oak Flat. Rio Tinto blew up 46,000 years of Australian Aboriginals' history and sacred teachings when it blew up Juukan Gorge caves in Western Australia. (Panel of ancient rock art painting, Quinkan Cave near Laura, Cape York, Queensland, Australia)

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

June 16, 2023

NEW YORK -- The release of imprisoned Leonard Peltier, the protection of Apaches sacred Oak Flat, and the halt of Enbridge's Line 5 were included in the final report of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The murders of Indigenous in Nicaragua, the imprisonment of Australian Aboriginal children, cross-border crime in the Amazon, and the rights and safety of Indigenous journalists are in the report from the UNPFII's 22nd session held in New York, April 17 -- 28, 2023.

Ian Zabarte to White House Council: Stop Nuclear Genocide Targeting Shoshone

Ian Zabate, Western Shoshone

Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte's comments to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council in Phoenix on Tuesday

By Ian Zabarte

Principal Man for Western Bands of Shoshone

Western Shoshone

Censored News
Translated into French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8041

Our country stretches from the Mojave Desert in the south to the Snake River in the north defined by the Treaty of Ruby Valley, the only ratified treaty in California and Nevada that is in full force and effect. We have made extensive comments to federal agencies, protested with tens of thousands of people and brought lawsuits over many decades to address the abuse, hazards and threats posed by nuclear weapons, nuclear waste and uranium – that both, disproportionately and adversely affect the Shoshone people.

Lithium Americas and United States -- Partners in Crime -- Prohibiting Access to Paiute Shoshone Sacred Place

Courtesy photo Paiute Shoshone defender of the sacred

The Lithium Lie: The Promotion of Lithium Mining as Clean Energy is the Current Hoax: It is Profit for a Foreign Mining Company, Violating Federal Laws 

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

OROVADA, Nevada -- Lithium Americas and the United States government -- Biden, Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and the BLM -- are violating federal laws that protect Native American religious sites and burial places. Access to Peez'uh, known as Sentinel Rock and Nipple Rock, is now blocked with a metal fence and "No Trespassing" sign, as Lithium Americas tears into the burial place of Paiute massacred here by U.S. soldiers in 1865.

The Arrest and Raid at Ox Sam Camp at Thacker Pass

Ox Sam Camp Raided by Police at Thacker Pass One Arrested as Prayer Tipis Are Dismantled and Ceremonial Items Confiscated Allied Universal has been identified as the private security firm that illegally confiscated and disrespected the Eagle Feathers and Ceremonial Staff during the raid on Ox Sam Camp, at the Paiute Massacre Site, Thacker Pass. Allied Universal, with a violent history, works for the foreign company Lithium Americas of Canada now digging into the unmarked burial places. The Ceremonial Staff was placed upside down in a garbage bag and being held at Lithium Americas' security building with the Ceremonial Items when these were retrieved. A young Navajo woman was arrested and terrorized. On the highway, she was transferred into a pitch-black box in the back of a truck. The raid on Ox Sam Camp and illegal confiscation of Eagle Feathers was led by Humboldt County, Nevada, Sheriffs Dept. Those responsible are Biden, Interior Dept. Deb Haaland and the BLM who are pushing this lithium mine digging into the place where Paiute women and children were massacred by U.S. soldiers, in violation of federal laws that protect Native American burial places, endangered species and their habitat, and groundwater. -- Censored News 6/8/23 Contact: Ox Sam Camp OxSam.org THACKER PASS, NV — On Wednesday morning, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Lithium Nevada Corporation, raided the Ox Sam Newe Momokonee Nokutun (Ox Sam Indigenous Women’s Camp), destroying the two ceremonial tipi lodges, mishandling and confiscating ceremonial instruments and objects, and extinguishing the sacred fire that has been lit since May 11th when the Paiute/Shoshone Grandma-led prayer action began.