Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 2, 2017

Long Walk 5 Walks into Denver -- Photos by Bad Bear


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Photos and videos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone

Long Walk 5 Arrives in Denver, Colorado
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Long Walk 5 walking for health, healing and sobriety, and against domestic violence and drug abuse.

Thank you Bad Bear for sharing your photos and videos with Censored News!
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Mohawk Nation News 'No Way Out'


NO WAY OUT



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MNN. April 2, 2017. It wasn’t negligence. The corporation planned and carried out the biggest holocaust in history. We descendants can’t let bygones be bygones. It was brutal without regard for our men, women, children, babies, all life. Now what happens to those who did this to us and enjoy the benefits?

WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT OUR CORPORATE MASTERS?
For 500 years beneficiaries kept silent about the murder of over 100 million of our people throughout the western hemisphere and the destruction of our mother that continues to this day. Their main war has always been against our minds. They want to continue with their same old same old colonial policy to kill the INDIAN and steal the land. They can’t beat the murder rap because there is no statute of limitations for murder.

IT’S A DEAL!
The invaders still want to rape and murder our mother. They want to steal from us to make weapons to kill us.
They lie to their children. They and their cohorts have no choice but to face the consequences because the settlers are starting to wake up to the lie they are living.
The mass murders will never be forgotten. They were deliberate.
Our language and ceremonies connect us to the sky and the earth. Our rights come from creation. We have the right to use our minds to think, ask questions, disagree. ka-neh-ron-kwa-stera, nature made us so that we love our families and all natural life. We give the direction to our children because no one loves them more than us.
We know who and what they are. wa-seh-wat-ket-sko. Many have awakened and are hit by the truth. Sorry is nothing more than a confession. Now the guilty parties need to be convicted of their crimes.
Our 49 rotino’shonni families of the iera-kwa [the sun shines on all of us] are of the same blood, with one mind, one direction, one cause – to end all war.
John Trudel reminds us of the history Americans prefer to forget: “Crazy Horse. We hear what you say, “One Earth, One Mother. One does not sell the Earth the People walk upon”. We are the Land. How do we sell our Mother? How do we sell the Stars? How do we sell the Air? Crazy Horse. We hear what you say. Too many people standing their ground. Standing the wrong crowd. Brother’s face. He possessed a race. Possession, A war that doesn’t end. Children of God feed on Children of Earth’.
John Trudel “Crazy Horse.
STANDING ROCK:

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April 1, 2017

Standing Rock Women's Delegation -- Photos from Norway



Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation at the Norwegian Parliament.

"We are calling for the guidelines and standards of the Oil Fund to change. It needs to become the Clean Energy Fund -- no more fossil fuel extraction. Respect for Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, Human Rights, Rights of Mother Earth. Amazing women speaking out!" said Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International and delegation organizer. Delegation -- Michelle Cook, Dine', Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota from Standing Rock, Tara Houska, Anishinaabe, Waste Win Young, Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa from Standing Rock, and Autumn Chacon, Dine'.


Indigenous Women from the frontlines of Standing Rock meeting with members of Norway's Parliament. Photo Osprey Orielle Lake. "Delegation with Norway Parliament member, Audun Lysbakken. Water is life! Implement Indigenous human rights in all investments by Norway's oil fund! We need Indigenous rights included in the oil fund's ethical guidelines!" said Michelle Cook, Dine', founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock



"The President of Sami Parliament stayed with us all day. Her name is Vibeke Larsen," said Waste Win Young, Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa from Standing Rock and frontline resister to Dakota Access Pipeline, shown in center. Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Mdewakantonwan Dakota, medical doctor living and working on Standing Rock Nation, on right. Photo by Michelle Cook, Dine'.


Photo courtesy Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska, Anishinaabetribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth (shown lower right.)


"Incredibly magical and renewing day at the Sognsvann (Myth/Song) Lake with our Delegation guided by wonderful new friend and ally, Charlotte from Norway," said Osprey Orielle Lake, today in Norway. Photo by Osprey Orielle Lake.


Autumn Chacon, Dine' performance artist, with Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Mdewakantonwan Dakota medical doctor from Standing Rock.



Video: Indigenous women's divestment delegation to Norway and experiences of Standing Rock. Video courtesy Tanyette Colon.

Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle (Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota living and working on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation); Wasté Win Young (Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer); Tara Houska (Anishinaabe, tribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders); Autumn Chacon (Diné/Navajo writer and performance artist); and Michelle Cook (Diné/Navajo, human rights lawyer and a founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock). [Full spokes-women biographies available here]

Update:
Because of the success in Norway, the women's delegation was invited to Switzerland. They arrived in Switzerland on Sunday.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/04/standing-rock-womens-divestment.html

Read more:
Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation to Norway, from the frontlines of Standing Rock, in Norway through April 2, 2017.


Indigenous Women's Delegation speaks out about DNB divestment:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/standing-rock-indigenous-womens.html

Read more about the Native American women on the delegation:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/norway-women-of-standing-rock-to-speak.html

More photos from the delegation in Norway
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/native-womens-divestment-delegation.html

Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado -- Long Walk 5 Photos by Bad Bear




Thank you Western Shoshone photojournalist Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, for sharing your photos with Censored News on Long Walk 2, 3, 4 and now 5.
Bad Bear


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Map of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado

Photos copyright Carl Sampson, Censored News.

Native Women's Divestment Delegation from Standing Rock Speaks with Norway's Parliament

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Thursday, March 30, 2017: "Delegation with Norway Parliament member, Audun Lysbakken. Water is life! Implement Indigenous human rights in all investments by Norway's oil fund! We need Indigenous rights included in the oil fund's ethical guidelines!" said Michelle Cook, Dine'.


Michelle Cook, at Parliament in Norway



Tanyette Colon was live.
Video above: Indigenous women's divestment delegation to Norway and experiences of Standing Rock.

Dinner with Sami sisters. Photo courtesy Waste Win Young.




Video: Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Lakota of Standing Rock, at the Parliament of Norway.

Update:
Because of the success in Norway, the women's delegation was invited to Switzerland. They arrived in Switzerland on Sunday.


Read more about the Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation to Norway, from the frontlines of Standing Rock, in Norway through April 2, 2017.

Indigenous Women's Delegation speaks out about DNB divestment:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/standing-rock-indigenous-womens.html

Read more about the Native American women on the delegation:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/norway-women-of-standing-rock-to-speak.html


Members of the press are encouraged to reach out with questions and media requests for spokeswomen - Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle (Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota living and working on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation); Wasté Win Young (Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer); Tara Houska (Anishinaabe, tribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders); Autumn Chacon (Diné/Navajo writer and performance artist); and Michelle Cook (Diné/Navajo, human rights lawyer and a founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock). [Full spokes-women biographies available here]

Media Contact:
General requests - Emily Arasim, +1(505) 920-0153, emily@wecaninternational.org
Urgent requests in Norway - Osprey Orielle Lake, +1(415) 722-2104, osprey@wecaninternational.org