Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 24, 2024

Spying on Activists -- Dine' Klee Benally, Vicam Yaqui, and Zapatistas were Targeted



Spying on Activists -- Dine' Klee Benally, Vicam Yaqui, and Zapatistas were Targeted by Tucson, Flagstaff and Phoenix police, Tohono O'odham government, and Mexican military

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 7, 2024

Democracy Now reports on Pegasus spyware in cell phones. It is a reminder of how our friend Klee Benally, Dine', was spied on by the Tohono O'odham Nation government as he protested the US Border Patrol, and the Salt River Project, and its role in poisoning Dine' with its coal-fired power plant.

The Tohono O'odham Nation government was the first tribal government to become part of a secretive inter-agency tribal/state/federal law enforcement Fusion Center that shared data.

December 20, 2024

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Identified that Murdered Raymond Mattia

 



U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Identified


Tucson Sentinel, reporter Paul Ingram, reports:

"Three Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of a Tohono O'odham man in front of his home in 2023 were identified in legal filings on Friday.

"Earlier this year, the family of 58-year-old Raymond Mattia filed a lawsuit, accusing Border Patrol of excessive force and demanding the names of the agents who killed him.

"Attorneys Ryan Stitt and Marcus Bourassa filed an amended complaint, and on Friday issued a summons for Border Patrol Agents Scott Whitehouse, Dan Sifuentes, and Ivan Torralva, who they said "shot and killed Raymond for no reason."

December 19, 2024

Choking with grief, Myron Dewey's family described their loss, as court hands down minimal sentence




Update: The driver of the truck that killed Paiute journalist Myron Dewey is an engineer with the same Reno, Nevada, mining company that did the initial testing for lithium mining at Hualapai's ceremonial spring in Arizona. The Hualapai Nation filed a federal lawsuit against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland for the mining permit issued to Hawkstone Mining, an Australian company.

"Kappes, Cassidy and Associates (KCA) was selected for the test work in May 2018," states NS Energy Business, reporting on the lithium testing at the Big Sandy lithium project.

The Reno company, which has contracts and mining sites around the world on Indigenous lands, was forced out of Guatemala after Indigenous mining protesters were attacked and beaten. https://earthworks.org/blog/guatemalans-demand-right-to-say-no-to-a-nevada-owned-gold-mine/


Choking with grief, Myron Dewey's family described their loss, as the court handed down a minimal sentence for the driver of the truck who killed Myron

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
June 6, 2023

PAHRUMP, Nevada -- Choking with grief and shaken from trauma, Myron Dewey's family described the horrific loss and life-threatening depression that now follows the death of the one they loved so deeply. Myron's daughter, sons, and wife described their unbearable grief, and his sister described the agony of watching Myron die, crushed inside his car.

After describing the agonizing loss of the one they loved so deeply, the driver of the truck that killed Myron in a head-on collision, John Walsh, a mining engineer who lives in Reno, received a minimal sentence.