Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 6, 2025

U.S. Justice Dept Rejects Civil Rights Complaint Filed for Murder of Raymond Mattia by U.S. Border Patrol

 

Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham

U.S. Justice Dept Rejects Civil Rights Complaint Filed for Murder of Raymond Mattia by U.S. Border Patrol 


By Ophelia Rivas, O'odham Voice Against the Wall

Censored News, January 6, 2025

The system of justice for the killing of an American Indian is as expected by the people. The numerous federal agents on the Tohono O'odham reservation are justified in killing our people as they will not be held accountable by the system that pays them to be heavily armed and unmonitored on our land.


January 5, 2025

Prophesy Happening, by Chili Yazzie





Prophesy Happening

By Duane 'Chili' Yazzie, Dine', Shiprock, Navajo Nation
Censored News, January 6, 2025

The prophecies that foretold the shifting of the world to a new reality are happening; it will be humankind self-destructing or life rebirth to rebalance and return to the original design.

A life of balance and keeping of the original design is lived by peoples who maintain the Original Instructions destined by the Great Creator. The Indigenous of the western hemisphere lived this idyllic life before the imperialist intrusion. A requisite of the Original Instructions for a lifeway of balance is to understand that all of creation are intrinsically related and to regard all as relatives. The other requisite is compassion, we were to be kind, take care of each other and the earth.

January 3, 2025

Zapatista Women -- Mexico's President's Reforms are a 'Fallacy'


Zapatista commander Mari affirms that the "Fourth Transformation" remains a "fallacy" that has failed to eradicate the structural problems faced by women and indigenous peoples. Photo EFE

Zapatista Women -- Mexico's President's Reforms are a 'Fallacy' 

Zapatista women doubt the real impact of Sheinbaum's reforms
by EFE | San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico


January 3, 2025 -- Indigenous women from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and other communities in Mexico have warned that, despite the arrival of the country's first president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and her reforms in favor of indigenous peoples, their situation remains unchanged in practice.

The Zapatista commander, Mari, has stressed that the 'fourth transformation', a term related to the ruling party, continues to be a "fallacy" that has not managed to eradicate the structural problems faced by women and Indigenous Peoples.

"They say that now it is history because a woman governs, but only for them, for the people of Mexico there is nothing, we do not know, the fourth transformation does not exist," she stated during the international meetings 'Resistance and Rebellion' on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the armed uprising of the EZLN uprising in Chiapas.