Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 25, 2023

U.S. and Colombian Aircraft in Mexico's Airspace. Autopsy Rules Homicide in Death of Raymond Mattia.


One of the Border Patrol body cameras reveals Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham,
walking out his front door in a non-threatening manner, seconds before he was shot nine
times by three U.S. Border Patrol agents. The medical examiner
ruled it a homicide.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Committed Murder. Censored News Examines Air Traffic South of the Border, as Autopsy Released.

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

The autopsy report states that Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, was the victim of homicide when shot nine times by three U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Ten years ago, Raymond told Censored News that he had videotaped local U.S. Border Patrol agents escorting drug cartels across the border with their drug loads. Raymond said after he submitted the evidence -- it disappeared.



U.S. Border Patrol agents committed murder.

During the years that followed, Raymond, who lived a short walk from the border, struggled to expose the U.S. Border Patrol running drugs through his community on the western side of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Justice Kavanaugh May Not Realize It But His Opening Statement is Premised on the Doctrine of Discovery


Navajos at Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, New Mexico

Justice Kavanaugh May Not Realize It But His Opening Statement is Premised on the Doctrine of Discovery

Steve Melendez, Paiute 
President, American Indian Genocide Museum
Censored News

On June 23, 2023, Justice Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court: “In 1848, the United States won the Mexican-American War and acquired vast new territory from Mexico in what would become the American West. The Navajos lived within a discrete portion of that expansive and newly American territory.”

This was Justice Kavanaugh’s opening statement so I would first like to ask him, ”What does Mexico have to do with the Navajos who have lived on this land for thousands of years?” You can’t get land title from someone who does not own it.

MNN 'Interim Report: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials'

INTERIM REPORT: MISSING CHILDREN & UNMARKED BURIALS

 Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2023/06/25/interim-report-missing-children-unmarked-burials/ 

MNN. June 18, 2023. Kimberly Murray BA, LL.B, IPC

“I am honoured to have been entrusted with being the Special Interlocutor… to support the work of Survivors and Indigenous communities to protect, locate, identify, repatriate, and commemorate the children who died while being forced to attend Indian Residential Schools”. 

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June 21, 2023

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

Paiute Shoshone elder Josephine was grief-stricken after the police raid on Ox Sam Camp. The Eagle Feathers and Staff were illegally confiscated and disrespected.

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

Raided and terrorized by police, their Eagle Feathers taken, now Interior Sec. Deb Haaland has broken their hearts, imperiling future generations. Ox Sam Camp at the Paiute Massacre Site. The People of the Ghost Dancers.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

French Translation by Christine Prat

Interior Sec. Deb Haaland supports digging into the burial places of massacred Paiutes for lithium -- and said she is doing the right thing.

AP reports that Haaland, whose department oversees Thacker Pass, said that while she supports the right to peaceful protests, her agency is in favor of the mine because "the need for our clean energy economy to move forward is definitely important."