Presented by the Native American Studies Department at the University of New MexicoWednesday, October 17, 2007 7:30 p.m.
October 15, 2007
Hopi Sacred Water Run to Mexico film in Albuquerque
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Presented by the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:30 p.m.
Presented by the Native American Studies Department at the University of New MexicoWednesday, October 17, 2007 7:30 p.m.
Global Green Indigenous Film Festival in New Mexico
Inaugural international Global Green Indigenous Film Festival to be launched in New Mexico, April 18 - 20, 2008
By Stephine Poston
stephposton@msn.com
The international Global Green Indigenous Film Festival will be held at the El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 18 -20, 2008. Gary Farmer will be a part of the film festival team. Charmaine Jackson-John, film festival manager, is accepting submissions for films and videos that address indigenous environmental concerns and issues from all countries. Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/global-green-indigenous-film-festival.html
By Stephine Poston
stephposton@msn.com
The international Global Green Indigenous Film Festival will be held at the El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 18 -20, 2008. Gary Farmer will be a part of the film festival team. Charmaine Jackson-John, film festival manager, is accepting submissions for films and videos that address indigenous environmental concerns and issues from all countries. Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/global-green-indigenous-film-festival.html
Mohawk Nation News: 'Who's Sorry Now?'
Mohawk Nation News
Mohawk Nation News has published a book on one of our Mohawk communities, Kanehsatake. The following is the preface: Title: “Who’s Sorry Now? The good, the bad and the unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake” by Kahentinetha Horn.
The title of this book, “Who’s Sorry Now” was inspired by the remarks of Judge Nicole Duval Hesler of Quebec Superior Court. She wanted the Mohawks of Kanehsatake to apologize to get more lenient sentences from her. She wanted an admission of guilt andsubmission to the colonizers who are engaged in stealing our community’s assets. She wanted our men to bow down to those heavily armed goons who had invaded our territory on January12, 2004 carrying a “hit list”.
They’ve been convicted as “rioters”. Wouldn’t an apology be dandy? It would save her the embarrassment of her case being appealed. The treatment we have been receiving at the hands of the police, judicial system and colonial government officials is corrupt,deceitful and threatening. We’ve learned that we are in the way of multi-national corporate interests who control colonial governments. We have learned that we Mohawks have been and continue to be targeted for various reasons. Our ancestors always refused to knuckle under. So do we!
That’s why we are still the targets of genocide. Our land,our constitution and our tie to our land has kept us strong. We continue to take energy from our ancestors who made the sacrifices so we could be here today. They made sure that there would be at least seven generations of our people in the future. This book is about how we spoke out and about the way we were persecuted for exercising a right that Canada pretends to defend. We also wanted the Canadian public to know what is being done with their tax dollars. This will give them something to think about as they sit around waiting for medical services which we are told cannot be provided. Where is all the money going? Well, this is about one leak in the bucket.
Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/mohawk-nation-news-whos-sorry-now.html
Mohawk Nation News has published a book on one of our Mohawk communities, Kanehsatake. The following is the preface: Title: “Who’s Sorry Now? The good, the bad and the unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake” by Kahentinetha Horn.
The title of this book, “Who’s Sorry Now” was inspired by the remarks of Judge Nicole Duval Hesler of Quebec Superior Court. She wanted the Mohawks of Kanehsatake to apologize to get more lenient sentences from her. She wanted an admission of guilt andsubmission to the colonizers who are engaged in stealing our community’s assets. She wanted our men to bow down to those heavily armed goons who had invaded our territory on January12, 2004 carrying a “hit list”.
They’ve been convicted as “rioters”. Wouldn’t an apology be dandy? It would save her the embarrassment of her case being appealed. The treatment we have been receiving at the hands of the police, judicial system and colonial government officials is corrupt,deceitful and threatening. We’ve learned that we are in the way of multi-national corporate interests who control colonial governments. We have learned that we Mohawks have been and continue to be targeted for various reasons. Our ancestors always refused to knuckle under. So do we!
That’s why we are still the targets of genocide. Our land,our constitution and our tie to our land has kept us strong. We continue to take energy from our ancestors who made the sacrifices so we could be here today. They made sure that there would be at least seven generations of our people in the future. This book is about how we spoke out and about the way we were persecuted for exercising a right that Canada pretends to defend. We also wanted the Canadian public to know what is being done with their tax dollars. This will give them something to think about as they sit around waiting for medical services which we are told cannot be provided. Where is all the money going? Well, this is about one leak in the bucket.
Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/mohawk-nation-news-whos-sorry-now.html
BOLIVIA RISING!
Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia celebrate their resistance and sovereignty over their land and resources, announcing decrees on migration, their right to water and women's rights, while celebrating the emergence of a new world leader: Bolivian President Evo Morales
Bolivia Rising
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare: That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable to eliminate us. We have confronted and resisted the policies of ethnocide, genocide, colonization, destruction and plunder. Read more ...
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/10/formal-summons-to-world-states-by.htmlRead
Bolivia Rising
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare: That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable to eliminate us. We have confronted and resisted the policies of ethnocide, genocide, colonization, destruction and plunder. Read more ...
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/10/formal-summons-to-world-states-by.htmlRead
October 14, 2007
Texas migrant prisons, free the children!
Hutto child prison and Raymondville tent internment camp in Texas
Freedom Ambassadors: A Texas Super Weekend…
Raymondville Walk II Oct. 26 - 27, 2007
Hutto Walk III Oct. 28-30, 2007
These prisons are models and manifestations of the elitist supremacy…with callous greed as the driving force that permeates our country and exploits the worlds’ inhabitants.
The Hutto child prison in Taylor and the Raymondville tent internment camps are the most visible yet sinister violation of international human rights on American soil…and they both happen to be here in Texas. Hutto has children and their mothers imprisoned at the tune of about $10,000 per child/per mother/per month. Raymondville is the most flagrant of adult immigrant internment camps in the world, let alone on American soil.
Read more from Jay Johnson-Castro:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/texas-migrant-prison-free-children.html
Photo Raymondville tent internment camp/Courtesy Jay Johnson-Castro
Freedom Ambassadors: A Texas Super Weekend…
Raymondville Walk II Oct. 26 - 27, 2007
Hutto Walk III Oct. 28-30, 2007
These prisons are models and manifestations of the elitist supremacy…with callous greed as the driving force that permeates our country and exploits the worlds’ inhabitants.
The Hutto child prison in Taylor and the Raymondville tent internment camps are the most visible yet sinister violation of international human rights on American soil…and they both happen to be here in Texas. Hutto has children and their mothers imprisoned at the tune of about $10,000 per child/per mother/per month. Raymondville is the most flagrant of adult immigrant internment camps in the world, let alone on American soil.
Read more from Jay Johnson-Castro:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/texas-migrant-prison-free-children.html
Photo Raymondville tent internment camp/Courtesy Jay Johnson-Castro
October 13, 2007
Vernon Bellecourt takes flight to the Spirit World
Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) Anishinabe/Ojibwe Nation 1931 - 2007From: Chris Spotted Eagle
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:51:34 -0400
Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) passed over into the spirit world earlier today, October 13, 2007. Minneapolis, Minnesota surrounded by his friends and family.
Vernon was a principal spokesman for the American Indian Movement and a leader in actions ranging from the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington to the 1992 Redskin Superbowl demonstrations. He Co-founded and was the first Executive Director of the Denver AIM Chapter. His involvement at Wounded Knee in 1973 led to a Federal indictment. He was a special representative of the International Indian Treaty Council and helped organize the first Treaty Conference in 1974. He was jailed for throwing his blood on the Guatemalan Embassy to protest the killing of 100,000 Indians. He was elected to a 4-year term in his White Earth tribal government and developed a model program for the spiritual education of Indian prisoners. Vernon was President of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media and recipient of the City of Phoenix, Martin Luther King Human Rights Award 1993
Last journey was to Venezuela in north and south solidarity
Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) passed over into the spirit world earlier today, October 13, 2007. Minneapolis, Minnesota surrounded by his friends and family.
Vernon was a principal spokesman for the American Indian Movement and a leader in actions ranging from the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington to the 1992 Redskin Superbowl demonstrations. He Co-founded and was the first Executive Director of the Denver AIM Chapter. His involvement at Wounded Knee in 1973 led to a Federal indictment. He was a special representative of the International Indian Treaty Council and helped organize the first Treaty Conference in 1974. He was jailed for throwing his blood on the Guatemalan Embassy to protest the killing of 100,000 Indians. He was elected to a 4-year term in his White Earth tribal government and developed a model program for the spiritual education of Indian prisoners. Vernon was President of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media and recipient of the City of Phoenix, Martin Luther King Human Rights Award 1993
Last journey was to Venezuela in north and south solidarity
Vernon Bellecourt, in poor health and in a wheelchair, joined an American Indian delegation to Venezuela in August, 2007, to unite Indigenous from the North and South in solidarity:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-indians-in-venezuela-build_26.html
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-indians-in-venezuela-build_26.html
Bellecourt fell ill after last great journey: Trip to Venezuela
From Lenny Foster, Navajo
I wish to offer my deepest condolences to the family of Vernon Bellecourt. I am sadden and with grief as I recall my friendship with Vernon Bellecourt since the fall of 1970 when I first met Vernon in Denver. I had already made my spiritual pilgrimage to Alcatraz Island that spring. He took me and many others under his wing and became a mentor for the young American Indians. I joined the American Indian Movement and I traveled with the Denver American Indian Movement chapter for the next three years (1970-1974) including the campaigns at Ignacio, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; Raymond Yellow Thunder in Gordon, Nebraska; Cass Lake, Minnesota; Alliance, Nebraska; Flagstaff, Arizona; Gallup, New Mexico; Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan & the BIA Takeover in Washington, D.C.; Wounded Knee, South Dakota; and the First International Indian Treaty Council gathering in Mobridge, South Dakota.
He was a fearless leader and was a very eloquent and articulate speaker whose words inspired a generation. He was the founder of the Denver chapter of the American Indian Movement and he was one of the founders of the International Indian Treaty Council and he became a staunch advocate and speaker for the Indigenous Peoples and became a world figure and traveled throughout the world.
He strongly believed in the spiritual sovereignty of the American Indian. He supported our struggle at Big Mountain with his presence at the Sun Dance. He took us with him from the Navajo Reservation and other Indian reservations throughout the country and he helped bring the Indian Nations into the world arena and became one of the leaders who traveled to the United Nations in Geneva.
He took on the corporate world of major league baseball teams such as the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians and the national football league teams of the Washington Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs because of the dehumanizing racist cartoon caricatures that portrayed the American Indian as mascots.
We were awarded and a recipient of the City of Phoenix, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Award in January 16, 1993 which was the first time the state of Arizona recognized the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. We both worked on the religious freedom and traditional worship for Native prisoners in the state prisons and federal penitentiaries and we both kept Leonard Peltier in the forefront for the religious freedom struggle.
This was my relationship with a great warrior, human being and a passionate advocate for his peoples.
My deepest condolences to the family and relatives of Vernon Bellecourt. We share your sorrow and grief.
Farewell my friend and comrade in the struggle and it was my pleasure and honor to have rode with you.
Lenny Foster (Dine’)
Wounded Knee vet
International Indian Treaty Council
He was a fearless leader and was a very eloquent and articulate speaker whose words inspired a generation. He was the founder of the Denver chapter of the American Indian Movement and he was one of the founders of the International Indian Treaty Council and he became a staunch advocate and speaker for the Indigenous Peoples and became a world figure and traveled throughout the world.
He strongly believed in the spiritual sovereignty of the American Indian. He supported our struggle at Big Mountain with his presence at the Sun Dance. He took us with him from the Navajo Reservation and other Indian reservations throughout the country and he helped bring the Indian Nations into the world arena and became one of the leaders who traveled to the United Nations in Geneva.
He took on the corporate world of major league baseball teams such as the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians and the national football league teams of the Washington Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs because of the dehumanizing racist cartoon caricatures that portrayed the American Indian as mascots.
We were awarded and a recipient of the City of Phoenix, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Award in January 16, 1993 which was the first time the state of Arizona recognized the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. We both worked on the religious freedom and traditional worship for Native prisoners in the state prisons and federal penitentiaries and we both kept Leonard Peltier in the forefront for the religious freedom struggle.
This was my relationship with a great warrior, human being and a passionate advocate for his peoples.
My deepest condolences to the family and relatives of Vernon Bellecourt. We share your sorrow and grief.
Farewell my friend and comrade in the struggle and it was my pleasure and honor to have rode with you.
Lenny Foster (Dine’)
Wounded Knee vet
International Indian Treaty Council
AIM Leader Vernon Bellecourt Dies at 75MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vernon Bellecourt, a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement who fought against the use of American Indian nicknames for sports teams, died Saturday his brother said. He was 75.
Bellecourt died at Abbott Northwestern Hospital of complications of pneumonia, according to Clyde Bellecourt, a founding member of the militant American Indian rights group.
Just before he was put on the respirator, Vernon Bellecourt joked that the CIA had finally gotten him, his brother said.
"He was willing to put his butt on the line to draw attention to racism in sports," his brother said. Clyde Bellecourt said his brother had been in Venezuela about four weeks ago to meet with President Hugo Chavez to discuss Chavez' program for providing heating assistance to American Indian tribes. He fell ill around the time of his return, Clyde Bellecourt said.
PHOTO: Vernon Bellecourt, critic of American Indian sports monickers, dead at 75 by STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press Writer© AP
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Leonard Peltier, and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee extend ourcondolences to the Bellecourt Family.
Vernon died Saturday, October 13, 2007at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis Minnesota surrounded by his friends and family.Vernon Bellecourt, whose Objibwe name (WaBun-Inini) means Man of Dawn was a member of Minnesota's White Earth Band and was an international spokesman for the AIM Grand Governing Council based in Minneapolis. He was 75. In recent years, Bellecourt had been active in the fight against American Indian nicknames for sports teams as president of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media. He was arrested in Cleveland during the 1997World Series and again in 1998 during protests against the Cleveland Indian's Mascot, Chief Wahoo. Charges were dropped for the first time and hewas never charged on the second case.A Celebration of Vernon's Life to be held on Monday, October 15, 2007 at All Nations Indian Church, 1515 E 23rd Street Minneapolis, MN 55404. Waketo be held on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at the Circle of Life School, White Earth Reservation, MN. Burial will be Wednesday Morning, October 17, 2007at White Earth Reservation, MN.
Respectfully,
Leonard Peltier
Toni Zeidan, Co-director
LPDC Website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
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