Today: Apache Stronghold at Phoenx Federal Court May 7, 2025

Photos courtesy Apache Stronghold, Censored News

Today Apache Stronghold Prayer Vigil for Sacred Oak Flat at 7 a.m., court hearing at 9 a.m. and press conference following, at Phoenix federal courthouse, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Wendsler Nosie, Sr., Apache Stronghold

Hundreds arrive in Phoenix after the sacred run from Oak Flat to Phoenix.

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Listen to the federal court hearing on Wednesday, May 7th at 9:30 a.m. • Toll-Free: 855-244-8681 • Access Code: 2305 873 4105

”Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day Superior, Arizona, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other harmful practices for decades. These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company. Resolution Copper now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater. The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites." -- Becket Law, representing Apache Stronghold 

Chickaloon Chief to U.N. 'Rights of women, subsistence, and land are not upheld in Alaska'

Chickaloon Chief: 'Why are governments taking up Indigenous Peoples time at U.N. Permanent Forum?'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 6, 2025

NEW YORK -- Chickaloon Traditional Chief Gary Harrison spoke on the murder of Indigenous women and men in Alaska, the lack of subsistence rights and the lack of informed consent for what is happening on the land in Alaska, during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

To a roar of applause, Chief Harrison questioned why governments are taking up the peoples' time at the U.N. Permanent Forum.

"I also find it strange that this is the Permanent Forum, and yet we have all these governments taking up the peoples' time -- the Indigenous Peoples time -- and telling us everything is OK in their countries."

Apache Stronghold Run to Federal Court Hearing, Day 1

Apache Stronghold Run to Court Hearing

by Apache Stronghold, Censored News, May 5, 2025

Apache Stronghold Run from Oak Flat to Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse for District Court hearing on May 7th. Photos of Day 1: Oak Flat to Blessing in Superior to Apache Junction. Today, Monday, the second Day of Run to the court hearing, the run will end at the Tempe Center for the Arts at 6 p.m.

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Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Quannah Chasing Horse, U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issuess 2025, Screenshot by Censored News

Gwich'in, Okinawa and Morocco: Indigenous Women, Voices in Struggle, at United Nations Permanent Forum

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 4, 2025

NEW YORK -- It is the sacred place where life begins, and now the U.S. has opened it to leasing for oil and gas drilling, Quannah Chasing Horse of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

As matriarchs, Indigenous women play an essential role in the community, and are the life-givers and defenders of the earth.