Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

July 18, 2023

Winnipeg: Canada's Systematic Genocide at the Brady Landfill: Police Expected at Barricade




Winnipeg police removed the Brady landfill road barricade today, Tuesday, after delivering an injunction on Friday. A second camp is being set up at the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.



Update: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Police took down the road barricade at Brady landfill today. So far, Camp Morgan, Longhouse and Sacred Fire are safe. "They want to continue dumping on our children and women who are in that landfill. How would they feel if it was their women and children in that landfill," said Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa. "CampMorgan is still Stronger than ever. Police only took the barricade down, but they didn't take the camp. In response, a new MMIW camp is being established at the Human Rights Museum down at the Winnipeg Forks. It's in support to have Both Landfill dumps Searched."


Update Tuesday afternoon: "Barricades were removed, but that doesn't mean it's over. New encampment called 'Camp Mercedes Myran,' who is another woman is believed to be in the same landfill dump with Morgan Harris. This camp will also be established at the Human Rights Museum," 
Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa said. In a live video stream, he said the families of victims asked the Warriors to be present.

 Friday https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=104070

The City of Winnipeg served the injunction. Police can arrest those at the barricade at 6 pm. Native protectors are demanding a search of landfills for murdered Indigenous women.

Update Saturday: Native Protectors Remain at Barricade after Injunction Served






Sgt. Brian Chrupalo, Metis, Winnipeg Police Service police liaison arrives shortly after 6 pm. Warriors say they are here to defend the women. The police liaison told Native defenders that the injunction had been delivered at 6 pm on Friday and all those present, listed as "John Does" on the injunction faced arrest, not just those listed by name on the injunction. Native defenders stood firm, with more arriving in the evening to enforce the road barricade to Brady landfill. They refused to leave until The City of Winnipeg searched the landfills for murdered Indigenous women. Family members of murdered Native women were among those standing firm at the road barricade.

Bear Clan Patrol makes it clear that this is a police officer, shown above, and is not representing Bear Clan.











Live coverage by CTV News. Screenshots live by Censored News. July 14, 2023

Saturday morning update: Waabishkaa Ma'iingan Apiichaa said, "If something happens to the camp, from police aggression. All railways, highways, and bridges will be blocked."

Pope Francis: It was a genocide against indigenous peoples

Pope Francis confirmed that the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide against Indigenous Peoples. The government of Canada is equally responsible, it mandated that Native children be seized by the churches, kidnapped from their families, and institutionalized in schools, resulting in an era of abuse, torture, and murder of Native children. Today, the remains of Indigenous women have been found in a landfill in Winnipeg. The City refuses to search a second landfill for other murdered Indigenous women who are believed to be there. On Friday, the City of Winnipeg delivered an injunction for Native protectors to remove a road barricade to Brady landfill. Police are expected to enforce the injunction, continuing this white supremacy and systematic genocide. -- Censored News.

Vatican News: Pope confirms the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide.

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Mohawk Mothers: In Defense of the Children -- Unmarked Graves at CIA torture site in Montreal

Mohawk Mothers represented themselves in court using The Great Law to ensure the search of McGill University hospital grounds for the unmarked graves of Native children. The CIA used the hospital for MK Ultra torture and mind control experiments in Montreal, Canada. A survivor of her incarceration at the hospital remembers seeing hospital staff digging graves on the grounds at night, and remembers Indigenous children as fellow victims. -- Censored News.
Mohawk Nation News ongoing coverage:

Canada's Unmarked Graves of Native Children -- 15 Years Ago, Russell Means Exposed 28 Sites

Fifteen years ago, Russell Means, Lakota, released information on 28 sites of unmarked graves at residential schools in Canada. Today, the search is ongoing, as thousands of possible graves have been located using ground-penetrating radar. Widely censored, Russell Means' documentation was published by Mohawk Nation News and Censored News in 2008.

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July 17, 2023

Yaqui Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the Gas Pipeline in Sonora



Indigenous Yaqui leader Fidencio Aldama is free after 7 years in prison and 
has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the company IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company Sempra Energy. -- Voices in Movement

INDIGENOUS YAQUI LAND DEFENDER

Fidencio Aldama Perez is an Indigenous Yaqui land defender and political prisoner from the northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community of Loma de Bácum, Sonora.

La Jornada San Luis reports

Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondent

July 16, 2023

Canada's Non-Response to Wet'suwet'en Testimony to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights


Chief Na'Mooks, center, testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Photo Jason Franson/Canadian Press

Canada fails to respond to Wet’suwet’en Nation’s claims in hearing at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

“Canada’s unwillingness to explain its actions shows an embarrassing disrespect for our Nation’s rights and the rights of all Indigenous Peoples in so-called Canada,” said Chief Na’moks, of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs.



By Amnesty International

Censored News


The Government of Canada’s remarks to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in response to allegations of serious human rights abuses show an “embarrassing disrespect” towards the rights and experiences of Indigenous Peoples, the Wet’suwet’en Nation and Amnesty International Canada said this week.

On Monday, representatives with the Wet’suwet’en Nation testified virtually to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) about the unjust criminalization of land defenders opposing the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) liquified natural gas pipeline on the Nation’s unceded ancestral territory. They also decried Canada’s and British Columbia’s decision to construct the pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Nation — a violation of the Nation’s rights under Wet’suwet’en law, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.


July 15, 2023

UN Climate Change Conference: The Trail of Oil, Weapons and Secrets in Indian Country


The UN Climate Summit prepares for COP28 in Dubai.

UN Climate Change Conference: The Trail of Oil, Weapons and Secrets in Indian Country


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 15, 2023


This is Not a Parody.

The UN Climate Summit will be held in Dubai, the homeland of oil and weapons.

The conference, which claims to be a global gathering focused on climate action, is from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Censored News investigations reveal that UAE is buying weapons from Israel. One of those providing weapons to Israel is the Rafael missile defense system produced by Raytheon Missiles in Tucson. Raytheon Missiles also has a factory on the Navajo Nation's commercial farm, Navajo Agricultural Products Industry, NAPI -- a fact that was censored by Indian Country Today.