Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 14, 2023

White Mesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

White Mesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

Ute Mountain Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa uranium mill, and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Photo courtesy Greenaction.


White Mesa Ute: 'Revolution of the Heart' March Against Uranium Mill



Spiritual march against the uranium mill poisoning White Mesa Ute today in southeastern Utah -- Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, reporting live for Censored News.

The Principles of Indian Law Inspired the Nazis by American Indian Genocide Museum



The Principles of Indian Law Inspired the Nazis

By Steve Melendez, Paiute

American Indian Genocide Museum

In 1933 Heinrich Krieger was a German exchange student studying at the University of Arkansas.  In March of 1935, The George Washington Law Review published Heinrich’s dissertation called, Principles of the Indian Law and the Act of June 18,1934.

The Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934 was also known as the Indian Reorganization Act.  Heinrich wrote, “The Act differs from the original Wheeler-Howard Bill in several respects, especially in the omission of provisions, ‘to promote the more effective administration of justice in matters affecting Indian tribes and communities by establishing a federal court of Indian affairs.’”

Biden Waiving 26 Laws to Rush Border Wall through Texas Wildlife Refuge


Ocelot. Photo by Robin Silver

Biden Administration Waives Laws to Rush Border Wall Construction Through Texas Wildlife Refuge

October 4, 2023
Contact:
Laiken Jordahl, ljordahl@biologicaldiversity.org
Center for Biological Diversity

STARR COUNTY, Texas — The Biden administration announced today that for the first time it will waive environmental, public health and cultural resource protection laws to fast-track construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. The administration says it will take “immediate action to construct barriers and roads” along the border, including through the fragile Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring lands.

“It’s disheartening to see President Biden stoop to this level, casting aside our nation’s bedrock environmental laws to build ineffective wildlife-killing border walls,” said Laiken Jordahl, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.“Starr County is home to some of the most spectacular and biologically important habitat left in Texas and now bulldozers are preparing to rip right through it. This is a horrific step backward for the borderlands.”

October 11, 2023

Justice Department Refuses to Prosecute US Border Patrol Agents who Murdered Raymond Mattia

 

Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham

Justice Department Refuses to Prosecute US Border Patrol Agents Who Murdered Raymond Mattia

In a devastating cover-up, and denial of justice, the federal prosecutors in Arizona said they will not prosecute the Tohono O'odham police and US Border Patrol agents who murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, on the front steps of his home. Raymond was shot nine times in a hail of bullets. Earlier, Raymond had videotaped the local US Border Patrol agents running drugs through his community. When he submitted the evidence to authorities, the video evidence disappeared. The Intercept reports today on the refusal by the US Attorney's Office in Arizona to carry out justice. -- Censored News.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/11/border-patrol-raymond-mattia/