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How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?

MINOT, North Dakota -- A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.

BY ELLA WEBER

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Indigenous Testify on Dakota Access Pipeline Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Germaine Tremmel, Standing Rock, Lakota testifying from the Oceti Sakowin camp.
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Lakota leaders testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in December of 2016.

Indigenous Testify on Dakota Access Pipeline Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Censored News is republishing the testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in December 2016, which describes the brutality of law enforcement, and failures of the U.S. government at Standing Rock. The current case in federal court, North Dakota v. U.S., omits the brutality of excessive force by law enforcement, critical injuries, and destruction of the sacred.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 19, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Lakota leaders testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, describing the excessive force and brutality of law enforcement during attacks on water protectors defending the water from construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota. The attacks resulted in critical injuries, the targeting of women, the destruction of cultural sites, and the violation of human rights, and international rights.

"Presently in the United States of America, our people have no civil rights," Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier, Lakota, South Dakota, testified before the commission.

"In 1968, the U.S. passed the Indian Civil Rights Act, it only protects our people from tribal governments."

Hualapai Runners Arriving at Arizona Capitol: Protecting Sacred Spring from Lithium Mining

Hualapai runners arrive at the capitol in Phoenix tomorrow, Tuesday, as they protect their sacred springs from lithium mining. Arizona State Capitol, March 19, 2024, 1 to 4 pm.

 

FBI Informants Reported Rumors, Third-hand Information, During Standing Rock Resistance, FBI Agent Testifies

Standing Rock Water Protectors 2016, Photo by Rob Wilson

FBI Informants Reported Rumors, Third-hand Information, During Standing Rock Resistance, FBI Agent Testifies

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 17, 2024

BISMARCK, North Dakota -- The FBI informants at Standing Rock often provided third-hand information and rumors, and some were just reporting information from telephone calls, and e-mails, and were not at the camps.

The only FBI weapons investigation was the one resulting from the handgun brought to camp by the FBI's paid informant Heath Harmon, FBI testimony reveals in the current federal case.

"Some of the informants may have never entered the camp, but obtained their information by telephone or e-mail or third-hand," said FBI Special Agent Robert 'Bob' Perry. Perry was in executive management in the FBI's Minneapolis office and responsible for the Dakotas.

Standing Rock -- BIA top cop can't dodge questions in court deposition

Standing Rock, Aug. 12, 2016, Photo Jon Eagle, Sr, Censored News

BIA head of law enforcement tried to dodge questions about involvement at Standing Rock, but his e-mails made it impossible. 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 17, 2024

BISMARCK, North Dakota -- The head of BIA law enforcement tried to avoid answering questions about his involvement with the massive police response at Standing Rock, during the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline -- but his e-mails in a court deposition made it impossible for him to deny it.

Darren Cruzan, BIA director of Justice Services in Washington, was present during briefings with Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and law enforcement.

Standing Rock: FBI had up to 10 informants during the resistance to DAPL

Standing Rock: FBI had up to 10 informants in the camps during the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline

The FBI's special agent in charge, reveals in his lengthy deposition, his search for the motivation of Standing Rock Water Protectors to make their stand -- and he fails to find the most obvious -- The Protection of the Sacred

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 15, 2024

In a new court case, the State of North Dakota claims it didn't have enough resources during the Standing Rock resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, and wants the U.S. to pay up. The testimony reveals that the FBI had up to 10 informants, not just FBI informant Heath Harmon, in the water protectors camps.