Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 8, 2025

Hillary Clinton Awarded Medal of Freedom. Clinton Targeted Mohawks and Mapuche with U.S. Espionage.

 

Mohawk Warrior Society, Oka Resistance

Hillary Clinton Awarded Medal of Freedom. Clinton Targeted Mohawks and Mapuche, Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez, with U.S. Espionage.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 6, 2025

WASHINGTON -- President Biden awarded Hillary Clinton with the Medal of Freedom on Saturday. Clinton, while serving as Secretary of State during the Obama administration, targeted Mohawks, Mapuche, and world leaders with U.S. espionage.

The U.S. Embassies in Montreal and Toronto targeted Mohawks with surveillance at the border and in their communities in Canada. The U.S. used illegal wiretaps to track Mohawks and documented the actions of Akwesasne Mohawks at the border of New York and Canada.

Tiokasin's Guest on First Voices Radio: Ofelia Rivas, O'odham Rights






First Voices Radio -- Ofelia Rivas, Guest

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Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, speaks with First Voices Radio host Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota. Ofelia describes how the U.S. Border Patrol murdered her friend Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, at his home on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Ofelia shares how Ray's father was her spiritual mentor and taught her about O'odham ceremonies. "Raymond is my ceremony brother, and I have a lot of respect for him."

Ofelia describes the moments leading up to Ray's murder when about 25 U.S. Border Patrol trucks arrived. After murdering Raymond, Ofelia could hear the U.S. Border Patrol agents laughing about murdering him. The gunfire included two shots from the back, and U.S. Border Patrol agents bashed in Raymond's body after he was shot and dying.

"He died such a painful death," Ofelia said. "He was unarmed."

Ofelia filed a civil rights complaint which was denied by the U.S. Justice Department. A Tohono O'odham Nation police officer, a non-tribal member, who had continually harassed Raymond, led the U.S. Border Patrol to Ray's home that night.

Ofelia said this tribal police officer's actions are a hate crime.

Raymond Mattia

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Tohono O'odham Nation police officer's vendetta revealed in murder of Raymond Mattia

Censored News: 

The vendetta of a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer is revealed by attorneys for the family of Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, who was murdered when Tohono O'odham police and U.S. Border Patrol agents fired 38 shots at him, striking him with nine bullets, in front of his home.

“I don’t know exactly where that motherfucker's at," a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer told U.S. Border Patrol agents as they met shortly before Raymond was murdered. The officer is a non-tribal member, hired by the tribal police department.

"During a series of interviews between 2011 and 2013, on the border in Raymond's community, Ali Jegk, Raymond told Censored News that he videotaped U.S. Border Patrol agents escorting Mexican cartels bringing drug loads across the border. When Raymond submitted the evidence, it vanished."

Continue reading:

Civil Rights complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice for justice for Raymond Mattia on Nov. 7, 2024, by Ophelia Rivas, O'odham Voice Against the Wall


The Intercept: Arizona prosecutor fails to charge Border Patrol agents in Mattia's death

First Voices Radio

Tiokasin’s guest this week is our friend Ofelia Rivas. Ofelia says this on her website (oodhamrights.org): “The O’odham way of life is based on the land that has held the remains of our ancestors since the creation of this world. The O’odham did not migrate from anywhere according to our oral history.  Our creation tellings record our history and teach the O’odham the principles of life. The survival of O’odham today is our him’dag.” Ofelia can be reached at her email address: 4oodhamrights@gmail.com


Support Ofelia's human rights work on her website, O'odham Rights


January 7, 2025

Failed Justice in North Dakota Courts: Who Blew Apart Sophia Wilansky's Arm at Standing Rock?




“At 21-years old, I lost the use of my arm because a police officer shot me from a gun turret with an exploding grenade at a protest. My life will never be the same, but I will also not be scared away from fighting for what is right." -- Sophia Wilansky.

Failed Justice in North Dakota Courts: Who Blew Apart Sophia Wilansky's Arm at Standing Rock?

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 6, 2025

Who blew apart Sophia Wilansky's arm and what weapon did they use? The details of the horrific injury to Sophia's arm are described in the federal court case, which names the officers who fired the weapons at Sophia at Backwater Bridge at Standing Rock during the freezing predawn hours of November 21, 2016.

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.