Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 11, 2023

Jet Fighters Endanger Tohono O'odham


This jet, N635AX, operated by the private company ATAC flew repeated combat jet fighting missions over the Tohono O'odham Nation during the last two weeks of March 2023. It is based at Luke AFB Phoenix.


Tohono O'odham were not informed of jet combat training overhead, or that the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems had built an 11th spy tower in the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation

By Brenda Norrell

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Updated April 11, 2023


April 11, 2023

GU-VO District, Tohono O'odham Nation -- Jet combat fights above the western Tohono O'odham Nation this week endangered the lives of O'odham, who were not informed. The jets were identified as being owned by the private training company, ATAC, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, which uses second-hand jets. It is not the U.S. military.

The company, ATAC, based in Virginia, flew out of Phoenix and engaged in simulated air combat over the Tohono O'odham District of Gu-Vo between 7 and 9 p.m. local time on Wednesday. ATAC has air combat training contracts with the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force.

"Living out here on the land, we are not fully informed, and we have not given permission for them to fly over us," said Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, who lives in Gu-Vo District.

April 10, 2023

Quechan Preston Arrow-weed 'The Land You Know Has Been Given to You'


Quechan elder Preston Arrow-weed

The Land You Know Has Been Given to You


The Gold Mine


Robert Lundahl

I just turned the recording on so we're official. It’s really nice to meet you could you could you both introduce yourselves for whomever might be listening to this podcast or reading this article – who are you and why are you here and where are you?


Preston Arrow-Weed

Preston J Arrow–weed, I'm on the Fort Yuma reservation. What else do you need?


Robert Lundahl Who is the fellow next to you?


Preston Arrow-Weed Oh this is Faron.


Faron Owl

Basically I've worked with Preston and just trying to help as much as I can on all these fights that we're involved with but it's been very good experience.


Robert Lundahl

I've been paying attention and that's what I wanted to talk to you about, so could you describe the event the other day? You guys had a run and went out to a sacred place with a geoglyph, and an official BLM geo-glyph sign there. So this is close to Oro Cruz, which is a gold mine is that correct?


Mohawk Nation News 'Sweet Surrender'


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MNN. Apr. 3. 2023. Canadians are beginning to be haunted by two past issues, murders of indigenous children and their unmarked graves being found. So far many thousands of unmarked graves have been discovered across Canada of children who were taken and disposed of, as well as numbers of children who were sold to colonial settlers for as little as $100. Most bodies are found near the Canadian Government Indian residential schools they were forced to attend. Many were medically experimented upon or died from mistreatment. 

April 9, 2023

The Censoring of Mount Graham: Vatican's Telescope now a marker of genocide


The Vatican Advanced Telescope on Mount Graham is a physical marker in this era when the Pope has confirmed that the Catholic Church committed the crime of genocide at Native residential schools in Canada.

By Brenda Norrell

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It has been one of the most censored issues: The Pope and the University of Arizona in Tucson discrediting Apaches sacred way of life, battling Apaches for years to put their telescope on Mount Graham, arresting Wendsler Nosie, Sr., for praying on the mountian, and now a New York state college has said 'No' to giving a Vatican telescope scientist an honorary doctorate because of it.

April 6, 2023

Southwest Alaska Native Nations file federal suit to halt Donlin Gold mine



The massive proposed open-pit gold mine and its toxic chemicals threaten salmon, human health, and Native peoples' traditional ways of life

By Earthjustice 
April 5, 2023
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Three Native Nations in the Kuskokwim River region of Southwest Alaska, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court today challenging the Donlin Gold Mine, a project that would be the largest pure gold mine in the world.

April 5, 2023

Hereditary Chiefs Grabbed and Isolated at Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting

Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting 

By Brenda Norrell
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April 5, 2023

SASKATOON -- Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na'moks was violently prevented from entering the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting today. "Such a racist act, they've actually laid hands on me, a Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief on my regalia just now," Chief Na'Moks told the RBC, as snipers were stationed on the buildings where traditional elders gathered in an Indigenous delegation.