Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 4, 2023

Nevada Ranger Violently Rams and Arrests Climate Protesters at Burning Man Roadblock

A violent ranger, employed by the Pyramid Lake Paiute Nation, plowed into a road barricade where women were chained to the blockade, drew his weapon, and threw a woman to the ground during violent arrests on Sunday.


Ranger Violently Rams and Arrests Climate Protesters at Burning Man Roadblock

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Full video of climate protesters' roadblock, protesting Burning Man on the road into the event, and violent arrests by rangers on YouTube https://youtu.be/e8fDM60MS84

Update -- September 5: Burning Man vehicles are making their way out of the mud now. On Monday, 70,000 festival-goers remained stuck in the mud at Burning Man after heavy rains and flooding. They were told to shelter in place, as food and water ran low, and toilets couldn't be cleaned. One death was reported during heavy rain. The road in and out was closed except for ambulances until the ground dried out. The annual event is on BLM land, and the BLM charges Burning Man more than $3 million for the special use fee. The area considers it an economic boost. Washoe County said it brought in $60 million in tourism-related revenues in 2019. However, already this year, the local Sheriff said people are leaving their vehicles and garbage behind in the mud. It is now an ecological mess. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-exodus-tuesday/index.html

Ranger crashes through climate protesters roadblock at Burning Man, endangering lives, carries out violent arrests

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada (August 27, 2023) – Climate activists shut down the highway leading to the Burning Man Festival on Sunday. "Get off the f--king road," a Ranger yells from his vehicle over a loudspeaker. A Ranger violently rammed the roadblock with his tribal vehicle, where women were chained to the barricade, endangering lives, and then pointed his weapon at protesters at close range.

Mohawk Nation News 'McGill and SQI, Remember You're in Indigenous Country'

MCGILL & SQI, REMEMBER YOU’RE IN INDIGENOUS COUNTRY

MNN. Sun. Sept. 3, 2023

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2023/09/04/mcgill-sqi-remember-youre-in-indigenous-country/

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/08/31/not-in-good-faith-mohawk-mothers-about-search-for-unmarked-graves-at-former-montreal-hospital-site/

Our brother the eagle landed on the highest point of the McGill Women’s Pavilion on September 3, 2023, with a message! A crew is digging the place in front of this building where three dogs found human remains. The kahnistensera and cultural monitors are staying on the path that leads to the great peace and finding our children, who were the victims of the MKULTRA and other experiments. No one will take us off that path.  

McGill is on the land of the kanienkehaka since time immemorial. No land can be sold, transferred or in any way taken from the original people who have been placed on onowarekeh by creation.  Our mother, turtle island, belongs to the unborn children. All life is dedicated to caretaking the land for the forthcoming happiness and dignity of our children. Intruders who do not live by the way of natural life as created by the kasatenserakowa saoiera have no place on turtle island. 

One of our belated Mohawk brothers, Robbie Robertson, said it perfectly: “In circles we gather. Moonlight fires are healing. Taking us back, make us go back. Beating hearts as one, this is indian county. You’re in indian country." [Robbie Robertson and the “Red Road Ensemble “Stomp Dance”].

Stomp Dance (Unity)

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Toxic Air Resulted in Cancer for Navajo, Apache and Western Shoshone


This is what Barrick Gold did to Western Shoshone's sacred Bald Mountain. Western Shoshone Carrie Dann said, "This is where the seasons of the year were named, in the time before people were here." Now, the Nevada gold mines, a joint operation of Barrick and Newmont gold mines, are a leading cause of cancer from air pollution in the U.S., ProPublic reveals with new data.

Copper and Gold Mining, and Coal-Fired Power Plants,  Resulted in Cancer for Navajo, Apache, and Western Shoshone 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 4, 2023

A copper smelter poisoning the air of Apaches, the coal-fired power plants on the Navajo Nation, and gold mining on Western Shoshone land, are among the top causes of cancer from air pollution in the United States, according to a new report, Poison in the Air, by ProPublica.

The Freeport McMoran copper smelter in Miami, Arizona -- located between the San Carlos Apache Nation, and Apaches Sacred Oak Flat -- is the third in the United States for producing toxic air pollution causing cancer. The poison air means the central Arizona community of Miami has ten times the EPA's acceptable risk of cancer. Apaches are now in federal court battling both the mining industry, and the Biden administration, to stop another copper mine nearby at Oak Flat which would destroy their ceremonial place.

Freeport-McMoran copper smelt poisoning Apache communities in central Arizona, ProPublica reports.




September 2, 2023

Making Money off Apartheid in Palestine and Stalking Tohono O'odham


Making Money off Apartheid in Palestine and Stalking Tohono O'odham 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 3, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google employees protested a Google contract for advanced surveillance with Israel this week in San Francisco. It is Nimbus, the cloud and surveillance technology created by Google and Amazon that is used in Israel against Palestinians, and by the U.S. Border Patrol to stalk O'odham, using the 11 spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation built by an Israeli defense contractor.

Nimbus, violating human rights and accelerating Apartheid, was exposed by The Intercept.