Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 1, 2013

Long Walk 4 at Stillwater Paiute Shoshone Indian Nation



Photos by Ellen Johnson
By Ellen Johnson
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 This morning we were blessed to have Long Walkers visit the Stillwater Indian Church. Emilio gave a brief explanation of journey's purpose. The mood was warm and cheerful with Emilio and Carl Sampson offering prayer and honor in song. Thank you Long Walkers for what you do.
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Empowering Native Youth Media: Vote on new videos

By Klee Benally
Outta Your Backpack Media
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 Here are the videos from OYBM’s recent 48 Hour Film Making Challenge.
Four films were produced with the theme “Hunger” and the requirements of including:
- The line: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
- Drawing of a spiral.
- Close-up of a hand clap.
- Either a flashback or split screen.
Please vote by either thumbs up or commenting (both are great!). Views will also be counted.
Please share your favorite video as well!
Films are going to be awarded for the following categories: “Best Overall,” “Most Creative,” & “Audience Choice.”
VOTING ENDS SUNDAY DEC. 1st at 7PM!!!
Not eligible for competition but made during the workshop:

www.oybm.org - Indigenous Youth Empowerment!

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Mohawk Nation News 'Black Friday'

BLACK FRIDAY

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Mohawk Nation News
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MNN. Nov. 30, 2013. Black Friday is “owistah” on steroids! Thanksgiving is not a day to be thankful. The real story is that every massacre of Indigenous people was followed by a celebration by the murderers.  [Please See:  Susan Bates. "Real Story of Thanksgiving". Financiers Jay Fiske and Stephen Gould first organized this kind of event in 1869. In 1951 it became “black Friday”. It is carried out with military precision. Wall street watches closely and gauges this for the bigger picture. 
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Mohawk Nation News 'Fourth Reich!'

FOURTH REICH!

mnnlogo1MNN. Nov. 29, 2013. The banking “crime” families are the Fourth Reich. Ia’kon, we are told [and did not see it ourselves] that Jesus went to the temple in Jerusalem and found that the money-changers had turned it into a “den of thieves”. They were practicing usury, that is, charging interest on loans to people. It was immoral. He tipped their tables and exposed their debt scam to the people. A week later he was nailed to the cross.
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Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects announced in Paris

Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects announced in Paris

By Survival International
Photo Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber met two katsina priests when a katsina was returned to the Hopi in July 2013. 
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A French auction house has announced that it is putting up for sale a large number of katsinam – objects sacred to the Hopi tribe of Arizona – just months after a similar auction caused an international furore. Survival International, the movement to support tribal peoples, is going to court to try to stop the auction. Alain Leroy of auctioneers EVE plans to auction 25 katsinam on 9 and 11 December, despite pleas from the Hopi’s religious authorities to cancel the sale. The auctioneers have ignored requests to suspend the sale. Read more at Survival International: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9784
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