Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

July 1, 2025

PYRAMID LAKE -- Sharing 55 years in the Red Power Movement, John Redhouse Launches New Book on Bordertown Racism


Carol Wright, Western Shoshone, and John Redhouse, Dine' and Ute, share the history of the resistance movement spanning 55 years today, with Melanie Yazzie, Dine', of the Red Nation.

Pyramid Lake -- John Redhouse Launches New Book on Bordertown Racism

"There is no compromise, no surrender," John said of coal mining. "Leave it in the ground."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 1, 2025
First in our three-part series

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PYRAMID LAKE NATION -- "I love my people," says John Redhouse, Dine and Ute, as he describes growing up in Farmington, New Mexico, and the resistance to racism in the bordertown.

John launched his new book today in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s.

"Today is a dream come true."

Mohawk Nation News 'Fakers Squat 'Rent Free' on Indigenous Land'


New today at Mohawk Nation News

 

June 28, 2025

'We have to show the images' -- Amy Goodman remembers Standing Rock

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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was charged with criminal trespass for coverage of the pipeline's attack with dogs on Standing Rock Water Protectors on Sept. 3, 2016. While flying in to turn herself in, the charge was changed to "riot." During her court appearance, a Morton County judge dismissed the charge on October 17, 2016.


Dakota Access Pipeline brought in dogs to attack Standing Rock water protectors, while the pipeline bulldozed Lakota burial grounds.


June 26, 2025

Dine' Michelle Cook: Divestment in a Time of Monsters

Speaking on divestment and the oppression of Indigenous women, Michelle Cook, Dine', said, "Now is a time of Monsters -- but it is also a time of Monster Slayers." Screenshot Censored News.

Today's presentation featured a video of an Indigenous women's delegation to Europe, confronting Credit Suisse, during resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. Screenshot Censored News.

Dine' Michelle Cook Speaks on Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 26, 2025

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', founder of Divest Invest Protect, spoke on divestment and transitioning away from fossil fuels, during the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, featuring 125 women during six days.

Indigenous women are finally being brought to the center of these places of power, Cook said.

"We're still in this moment of crisis -- right now."

Speaking on the importance of divestment, she said, "We are on the brink of collapse."