Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 23, 2025

Navajo President Urges Dine' to Join ICE -- While ICE Brutality is Battled Across the Nation



Navajo President Urges Dine' to Join ICE -- as Nationwide Protests Battle ICE Brutality

Navajo President urges Dine' to join ICE

While ICE is being protested around the country for the brutal arrests of crop workers in the fields, food vendors, and drags mothers and fathers from their homes -- Navajo President Buu Nygren urged Dine' to join ICE.

"President Nygren called for the recruitment of Navajo citizens into federal enforcement roles, including ICE, citing their strong military backgrounds, cultural understanding, and ability to foster trust within Native communities," Nygren's office said in a statement after meeting with federal law enforcement in Phoenix.


Dine' responded to the Navajo President.

"He Wants Diné to Work for ICE."

"Nygren called on Navajo citizens to join ICE. ICE is an agency known for separating families, abusing Indigenous people along the border, and terrorizing communities. For a Navajo president to encourage Diné to become agents of ICE is betrayal. He is asking us to turn against our relatives for federal approval."

Read more from this statement in the comments below.

Nygren's statement urging Dine' to join ICE is on his Facebook page:

Mohawk Nation News 'Dissolve the Invaders of Turtle Island'

DISSOLVE THE INVADERS OF TURTLE ISLAND

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/09/23/dissolve-the-invaders-of-turtle-island/

Sep. 21, 2025. It is scary that the people of the Western world [primarily settlers of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand] don’t want to or can’t learn. They invaded turtle island to flee their misery and created a money based get-rich-quick delusion system based on what they stole from us indigenous and killed 95% of us for. They made imaginary money leading to imaginary success.  Most of us who took care of them and helped them survive their approach to turtle island were eliminated.


ONTARIO -- Weengushk International Film Festival with Free Online Festival


'Seeds' by writer-director-actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Kahnawake Mohawk, is a comedy thriller with co-star Graham Greene. Seeds is one of the new films in the Weengushk's International Film Festival's free online festival. 

September 23, 2025 - Please include in your news items and editorial plans

Weengushk International Film Festival and Cultural Event Announces 2025 Programming
on Manitoulin Island and Free Virtual Festival


Celebrating Indigenous Storytelling and Legacy Makers:
Honouring Chiefs Who Paved The Path Forward


'Free Leonard Peltier' Image by Censored News

Opening Night Film Free Leonard Petlier

Artistic Director Dr. Shirley Cheechoo CM is pleased to announce programming for the 9th Annual Weengushk International Film Festival (WIFF) taking place October 3 - 5, 2025 on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario plus FREE virtual screenings October 3-10, 2025. The Weengushk International Film Festival is Northern Ontario’s premier Indigenous film festival, with this year’s festival dedicated to powerful storytelling, immersive cultural events and cinematic excellence.

The theme of WIFF 2025 is The Legacy Makers: Honoring Chiefs Who Paved the Path Forward celebrating and honouring the legacies of chiefs who are guiding their communities toward the future they envisioned. Their work resonates with WIFF’s collective mission to create lasting impact that honours the past, embraces the present and builds a strong future for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.

September 21, 2025

Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew to Join Freedom Flotilla 'Letter on the Siege on Gaza'



"This Warrior Flag was actually at Standing Rock," said Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree Dene on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza today. This flag also flew at the Wet'suwet'en's Gidimt'en Checkpoint. The women also brought an Anishinaabe flag that flew at 1492 Land Back Lane at Six Nations. Remembering the photos of the Warrior flag in Jabalia in Gaza, she said, "This is a symbol of Global Indigenous Solidarity, and Global Indigenous Solidarity means that none of us are free until all of us are free." Agnew said, "I have joined the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break the siege on Gaza with Dr. Suzanne Shoush and fellow comrades from Turtle Island. Break the siege on Gaza NOW! Solidarity to the global Indigenous resistance."