APACHE STRONGHOLD: JUDGE REFUSES INJUNCTION TO STOP SACRED OAK FLAT LAND GIVE AWAY AND DESTRUCTION

Wendsler Nosie photo by Steve Pavey

JUDGE REFUSES INJUNCTION TO STOP SACRED OAK FLAT LAND GIVE AWAY AND DESTRUCTION

By Apache Stronghold

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PHOENIX – This afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan denied Apache Stronghold's request for an injunction preventing the giveaway and destruction of sacred Oak Flat to Rio Tinto/Resolution Copper.  Judge Logan said that Apache Stronghold has no right to ask the Court for help because they are not an officially designated a "sovereign nation."

Judge Logan said that the U.S. Government has no Trust Responsibility to the Apache even though their Treaty of 1852 says, "the government of the United States shall so legislate and act as to secure the permanent prosperity and happiness of said Indians."  In reaching this conclusion, the Judge quoted a case saying, "The exclusive right of the United States to extinguish Indian title has never been doubted.  And whether it be done by treaty, by the sword, by purchase, by the exercise of complete dominion adverse to the right of occupancy, or otherwise, its justness is not open to inquiry in the courts."

In the Spirit of Resistance: Food deliveries, defending the land and cooking for elders

(Above) Dine' volunteers Mercury Bitsuie along with his Uncle Andy Dann and friends, continue to deliver food and supplies to the remote homes on the Navajo Nation.

NOTRE DAME RELIGIOUS LIBERTY LAW CLINIC JOINS OAK FLAT LAWSUIT TO PROTECT APACHE RELIGIOUS RIGHTS

Apache Stronghold, Naelyn Pike

Contact: Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr., Apache Stronghold, apaches4ss@yahoo.com

NOTRE DAME RELIGIOUS LIBERTY LAW CLINIC JOINS OAK FLAT LAWSUIT TO PROTECT APACHE RELIGIOUS RIGHTS

By Apache Stronghold 

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative Clinic filed an amicus or "Friend of the Court" legal brief this afternoon in Federal Court in support of Apache Stronghold's efforts to prevent the destruction of Oak Flat or Chi'chil Bildagoteel and the resulting devasting impact on Apache religion.  Notre Dame's filing highlights the fact that the U.S. Government is trying to force the Apache to give up their religion at Oak Flat while it protects the religious rights of non-Indians elsewhere.  This violates Apache constitutional rights.  The filing also notes that the U.S. Government has a trust responsibility to protect sacred sites, not to destroy them.

Lakota Youths Running to Cannonball River: Shut Down DAPL Feb. 9, 2021

Lakota Youths Running --  from Standing Rock and Cheyenne River -- to the Cannonball River

Lakota Youths running to the site of the  resistance four and one-half years ago. They are sending a clear message to President Biden: Dakota Access Pipeline is operating illegally -- without a permit -- shut it down!

By Standing Rock Youth Council

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"Today, February 9, 2021, is the day we need everyone to help us make some noise on social media to #ShutDownDAPL run record yourself in solidarity, post on all platforms you have access, or simply share all #shutdownDAPL posts you see. Tag President Biden and VP Harris in the posts and use the hashtags so we can see the post! #shutdownDAPL #BuildBackFossilFree #byedendapl

"Examples of what to write in your posts listed below

"Hey @JoeBiden, the Dakota Access Pipeline continues to operate illegally endangering the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe."

"I am joining Lakota youth’s #NODAPL challenge to demand you #shutdownDAPL. #ByeDenDAPL

@POTUS consultation is not consent and the Standing Rock Sioux are still fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

"I’m taking the Standing Rock Challenge because it’s time to #shutdownDAPL and #BuildBackFossilFree for our youth, land and water."

#ByeDenDAPL

 

Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate with Secret Grand Jury

Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate With Secret Grand Jury

Steve Martinez Takes Stand Against Use of Grand Jury to Repress Indigenous Environmental Movement
February 8, 2021

Contact: Leoyla Cowboy, Executive Director, Water Protector Legal Collective

Natali Segovia, Attorney, Water Protector Legal Collective defense@waterprotectorlegal.org Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney at Law

By Water Protector Legal Collective

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BISMSRCK, North Dakota – Water Protector Steve Martinez is confined in Burleigh County Detention Center after refusing, on principle, to give testimony before a federal grand jury. This Grand Jury, like the one at which Martinez refused to testify three years ago, ostensibly involves a criminal investigation into events leading to the grievous injury of Water Protector Sophia Wilansky. It has been the position of Morton County, North Dakota that Ms. Wilansky was not injured as a result of excessive force by law enforcement, but by the actions of Water Protectors. In a federal civil rights lawsuit against Morton County, however, Wilansky says she was shot in the arm with a concussion grenade by a sheriff’s deputy on November 20, 2016, when law enforcement attacked hundreds of unarmed people objecting to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (“DAPL”) with high pressure fire hoses, impact munitions, explosive grenades and chemical weapons.

Akantu -- Origin Series -- Music and Spoken Word CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse

"AKANTU: ORIGIN SERIES"

New music and spoken word CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse

By Liz Hill, Ojibwe

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STONE RIDGE, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2021 via REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — "Akantu: Origin Series" is a new CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse. The CD, which includes four tracks of spoken word and music, is Ghosthorse's fifth release. Like all of Ghosthorse's past projects, "Akantu: Origin Series" was inspired by and is dedicated to Mother Earth.

"Akantu: Origin Series" was recorded live on October 12, 2017 at The National Sawdust in Brooklyn,  New York. "This was a gathering of Original Nations and notions of beings with the elemental evolution of letting the mystery go where it will with music, spoken word and presence," says Ghosthorse.