Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

March 10, 2023

Atlanta Cop City: Mvskoke Ceremonial Leaders Evict Police from Homelands


Mvskoke evicted police from their homelands. Mayor shown fleeing Mvskoke.



"I came all the way on the Trail of Tears to deliver this letter," said Mvskoke attorney Jordan Harmon, reading the letter as a session of Atlanta officials concluded. She continued reading it on camera as police ushered her into the elevator.

"Georgia is the birthplace of oppressive policing, originating with Indigenous genocide and the Trail of Tears and the capture and enslavement of African descendants seeking freedom. Our ancestors who are buried here continue to suffer while the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia deploy the very same escalated militarized tactics against Black, Indigenous and people of the global majority that were used in Indigenous genocide and Black enslavement."

Atlanta Cop City: Mvskoke Ceremonial leaders evict police from homelands and demand justice for the assassination of Tortuguita. Atlanta Mayor flees Mvskoke.

Watch Video: Mvskoke Ceremonial Leader Reads Statement https://twitter.com/i/status/1633852566827315201

News Release
Fossil Fuel Media
Censored News

On Wednesday, March 8, Mvskoke Ceremonial leaders attempted to reach out to Mayor Andre Dickens and deliver an eviction letter. They entered the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) meeting, where ARC Board Member and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens was present.

Jordan Harmon, Mvskoke Creek attorney, read the letter aloud when the meeting adjourned and attempted to deliver an eviction notice to the Mayor. Dickens quickly fled the room, surrounded by his security forces, and refused to meet with Mvskoke Creek people who had traveled to their ancestral homeland.

March 8, 2023

The Red Nation: John Redhouse remembers Larry Casuse


The Red Nation: Special Episode Melanie Yazzie in conversation with John Redhouse on the Larry Casuse Day of Remembrance. Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie, Dine', speaks with John Redhouse as part of the "Larry Casuse: A Day of Remembrance," co-sponsored by UNM’s American Studies department, in partnership with the Institute for American Indian Research. "You really have to show up," says Melanie Yazzie of resistance and revolution. "You really can move mountains."


The Red Nation: John Redhouse remembers Larry Casuse

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

John Redhouse, Dine', remembers Larry Casuse, Dine', and the movement for the people which Larry sacrificed his life for.

Larry had a "certain light around him," John remembers. Larry was a rising star and a leader. "He was a leading voice," John said, remembering Larry as a voice against the exploitation by the Gallup Ceremonial and Peabody Coal mining on Black Mesa, which the Navajo government had sold out to. Even back then, Larry spoke of the need for solar and wind as energy sources.

"When your back is against the wall, you have to fight back," John said. It is necessary to strike back like a snake to defend the sacred.

March 6, 2023

From the Pages of 'Voices from Wounded Knee 1973' in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Wounded Knee




Robert Free and Sid Mills lead the escort of the attorney general into Wounded Knee, for one of the rounds of negotiations. The Independent Oglala Nation asked for a referendum for a new form of government and had gathered 1,400 signatures, but the U.S. only wanted to talk about disarmament. From 'Voices from Wounded Knee 1973,' by Akwesasne Notes, fourth printing in 1976.

March 4, 2023

Newe Cultural Days, Pooha-Bah Traditional Healing Center, March 11 -- 12, 2023

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At the Nevada Test Site, standing against the nuclear devastation of atomic bomb testing on Western Shoshone land: Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney and Pauline Esteves. Photo University of Nevada Las Vegas Special Collections.

Newe Cultural Days, Pooha-Bah Traditional Healing Center,  March 11 -- 12, 2023

 

March 2, 2023

Lithium Americas begins mine construction on Paiute Massacre Site today March 2, 2023


Thacker Pass Credit: Spenser Heaps

Lithium Americas announced this morning it is beginning construction on the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass. As usual, an environmental impact statement was rubber-stamped, and the courts complied with the corporation. -- Censored News
Calling it consultation, Lithium Americas held a meeting with Fort McDermitt Paiute in their community in northern Nevada in February. Earlier, the tribal chairman and his family members were hosted by Lithium Americas during a facility opening in Reno in 2022. Fort McDermitt Paiute community members said they were never told of an agreement made with Lithium Americas by some members. Paiute and Shoshone protested outside the federal court in January, but the court failed to halt the lithium mine. Three Native American Nations have filed another lawsuit to halt it -- the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe and Summit Lake Paiute. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court refused to issue an emergency injunction to halt the lithium mine, which is being pushed as "green energy" by the Biden administration. -- Censored News


Below: 'Digging and shoveling' on the land where Paiute women and children were massacred. Promoted by the Biden administration as 'green new energy," it is money-making for the Canadian corporation Lithium Americas, and anyone they can buy.




LITHIUM AMERICAS COMMENCES CONSTRUCTION AT THACKER PASS
Press statement by Lithium Americas
French translation for Censored News by Christine Prat

March 2, 2023 – Vancouver, Canada: Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX: LAC) (NYSE: LAC) (“Lithium Americas” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the commencement of construction at its 100%-owned Thacker Pass lithium project (“Thacker Pass” or the “Project”) in Humboldt County, Nevada, following the receipt of notice to proceed from the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”).