University of California Berkeley leads U.S. in Native Grave Robbing

Photo Penn State Museum

University of California Berkeley leads U.S. in Native Grave Robbing. Long History of Grave Robbing by Museums Revealed in NAGPRA Notices.

By Brenda Norrell

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The University of California Berkeley has the largest number of unreturned human remains of Native Americans, in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Further, recent notices in the Federal Register reveal that grave robbing resulted in large numbers of Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa, Miwok, Pueblo, Shawnee, Arapaho, Siletz, and others being harbored for decades by museums across the United States.

UC Berkeley has Native remains from every county in Arizona and Utah where the Navajo Nation is located.

Shut Down Red HIll Facility -- U.S. Navy Endangers Native Hawaiians Water

Shut down Red Hill: Ola I Ka Wai!

 Down Red Hill Public Comment due Monday, Feb. 6

By Water Protectors Legal Collective

Relatives,

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Navy are asking for public comments on a consent decree regarding the defueling and closure of the Red Hill Facility, and the operation of the Pearl Harbor drinking water system. The consent decree was negotiated without any consultation with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply or the community whose lives, homes, children, and future generations remain in existential jeopardy every day that fuel remains in the decrepit Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and its actively corroding underground storage tanks.

American Indian Airwaves: Listen 'Nuclear Colonialism and Protecting Mother Earth'

Nuclear Colonialism Censored: Part 3 on Allyship and its Complications in Moving Forward and Peacefully Healing Mother Earth

Thursday, 2/2/2023, on American Indian Airwaves on KPFK, 7pm to 8pm (PCT)

By Larry Smith (Lumbee)
Co-host/Producer of American Indian Airwaves

Part I

Nuclear Colonialism with Leona Morgan (Dine’ Nation) is a three-part interview broadcast over three consecutive episodes of American Indian Airwaves. The series focuses on our guest’s community work since 2007, which includes combatting many aspects of nuclear colonialism.

Department of Defense Harbors Thousands of Native Remains, Including Four Ancestors at Fallon Bombing Range

Longest Walk 2013 near Fallon, Nevada. Photo by Western Shoshone Bad Bear Sampson.

The Department of Defense harbors thousands of Native Remains, including four Native Americans at the Navy's Fallon bombing range. Native Hawaiians struggle for the return of their ancestors, while new information exposes grave robbers and Native remains held at military bases.

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Translated to French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7687

Part II: Napalm Burn Pit

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-napalm-burn-pit-at-fallon.html

The Defense Department has the remains of four Native Americans taken from the land of the Naval Airbase in Fallon, Nevada. It is the military base that was expanded by Congress and President Biden in the defense spending bill for 2023.

It is the expansion that Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey died trying to halt. On the day before his death, Dewey live-streamed at the bombing range, warning of the continued genocide from the Navy Seals bombing on sacred land. At the same time, the Nevada Congressional delegation pushed for expansion.

Museums Harboring Thousands of Apache Ancestors

Geronimo 1866

Museums Harboring Thousands of Apache Ancestors

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Jan. 29, 2023

Spanish translation by Lise Bouzidi

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/

Translated into French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7681

Museums are harboring thousands of Apaches. Twenty years ago, camped on Mount Graham, San Carlos Apache Councilman Raleigh Thompson described how Yale University's Skull and Bones Society robbed the grave of Geronimo at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Now, a new database reveals that ancestors of Apaches -- including San Carlos Apache, Mescalero Apache, Fort Sill Apache and Apache Tribe in Oklahoma -- are being held in museums and have not been made available for return, as required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Apache Stronghold Sacred Run to Oak Flat Feb. 16 -- 19, 2023

Apache Stronghold Sacred Run Feb. 16 -- 19, 2023

By Apache Stronghold

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Friends!

The Apache Stronghold invites you and your family to the 9th Annual Oak Flat March and Run, February 16-19, 2023. More details will be shared about this 45-mile march in the coming weeks. If you have questions about attending and participating, you can contact Vanessa Nosie (vnosie11@gmail.com) or respond to this email. Please share the Save the Date with your communities. All are welcome.

This year’s march comes in anticipation of the Apache Stronghold’s next caravan to the Ninth Circuit Court in California this March. A lawsuit to defend the right for prayer at Chi’chil Bildagoteel continues to move through the United States’ legal system. Most recently, one of the judges from the Ninth Circuit requested a full review of the case with the argument that its merits had not been given due diligence on first review. A press release sharing the powerful coalition of faith-led groups that has joined the Apache Stronghold in support is below.