Southwest Alaska Native Nations file federal suit to halt Donlin Gold mine

The massive proposed open-pit gold mine and its toxic chemicals threaten salmon, human health, and Native peoples' traditional ways of life

By Earthjustice 

April 5, 2023
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Three Native Nations in the Kuskokwim River region of Southwest Alaska, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court today challenging the Donlin Gold Mine, a project that would be the largest pure gold mine in the world.

Hereditary Chiefs Grabbed and Isolated at Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting

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Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting 

By Brenda Norrell

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April 5, 2023

SASKATOON -- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na'moks was violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting today. "Such a racist act, they've actually laid hands on me, a Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief on my regalia just now," Chief Na'Moks told the RBC, as snipers were stationed on the buildings where traditional elders gathered in an Indigenous delegation.

San Carlos Apache Chairman to Biden: Copper mine approval would be human rights violation

San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Condemns Any Plan by Biden Administration to Advance the Proposed Resolution Copper Mine as a Human Rights Violation 

 

By San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler

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April 4, 2023 

French translation for Censored News by Christine Prat

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SAN CARLOS APACHE NATION — San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler today sharply criticized reports that the Biden Administration is preparing to approve the proposed Resolution Mine that would destroy sacred Indigenous land located at Oak Flat on the Tonto National Forest about 70 miles east of Phoenix. “Obliterating Oak Flat for a copper mine will be a grave human rights violation against Indigenous people and an environmental catastrophe,” Chairman Rambler said. “Only China and shareholders of the two largest foreign mining companies in the world will benefit.” 

'The Land You Know Has Been Given to You," film documents Quechan battling gold and lithium mining

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Gold is the 'snake's blood; and the creatures in the desert will die because of the greed of corporations, including the Canadian gold company now targeting Quechan's sacred land

Article by Brenda Norrell

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This land was given to the people and creatures long before the Europeans came here. Now, gold, lithium, and geothermal miners are destroying it. They are not from here, it doesn't matter to them, and it is the public that is letting them do it, said Preston Arrow-Weed, Quechan elder. "They have no right to go and destroy it for the gold," says Arrow-weed in a new film, "The Land You Know has been Given to You," just released.

College Withdraws Honorary Degree Due to Vatican Desecration of Mount Graham

Running to protect sacred Mount Graham. Photo courtesy Apache Stronghold.

College Withdraws Honorary Degree Due to Vatican Desecration of Mount Graham

By Brenda Norrell

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March 28, 2023

SUNY Geneseo College bulletin said today that a planned honorary degree has been withdrawn for a Vatican scientist because the Vatican is responsible for the telescope long opposed by Apaches on sacred Mount Graham.

SUNY Geneseo College, in upstate New York, said in its morning bulletin that it will not confer an honorary degree on Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno. Previously, the college said it would present him with an honorary Doctor of Science degree.