Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

May 15, 2026

Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026



Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026

Support the White Mesa Ute Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Protest Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah,  and near the Grand Canyon! Stop Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mill/Dump next to the White Mesa Ute Community!

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 12 noon at LA SAL JUNCTION
(intersection of Highway 191 and 46 – about 20 miles south of Moab)


Censored News, May 15, 2026

Energy Fuels operates uranium mines near Moab in La Sal, and also operates the Pinyon Plain mine near the Grand Canyon. They also operate the uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community in San Juan County which is turning into an international radioactive dump.

May 11, 2026

Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 6, 2026

Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 2026


Uranium ore haul truck struck by car endangered Navajos near Shonto, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. Photo courtesy Navajo Police Dept.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 6, 2026

A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle in the northwestern Navajo Nation on May 6, 2026. The collision  exposes the danger from the radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps.

The trucks travel from Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine in the Grand Canyon in Havasupai ancestral land, through Flagstaff, and across Navajo and Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in southeastern Utah. 

May 10, 2026

Border Wall Construction Destroys 1,000 Year Old Sacred Place of Hia-Ced O'odham


Tohono O'odham Nation: 'Devastating and Entirely Avoidable Loss'

Border Wall Construction Destroys 1,000 Year Old Sacred Place of Hia-Ced O'odham


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Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.

Lorraine Marquez Eiler, co-founder of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance and an elder of the Hia-Ced O’odham, says locals informed both the work crews and Border Patrol officials about the significance of the intaglio. “On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,” says Marquez Eiler. 

Victory for Lakota Youths Protecting Sacred Pe'Sla

 Victory for Lakota Youths 

Protecting Sacred Pe'Sla

"We stopped the drilling, this is a victory for the Oceti Sakowin," Lakota youths said as the drilling rig drove out of sacred land.


Company withdraws from controversial Black Hills exploratory drilling project

By:-May 8, 2026

South Dakota Searchlight

A company that’s being sued for exploratory drilling near a culturally significant site in South Dakota’s Black Hills is withdrawing from the project, according to a letter shared with project opponents.

The opponents include the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, which posted a copy of the letter and a statement Friday on social media.