Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 16, 2024

Buried in Time: BIA Takeover Documents Included Sterilizations, Pine Ridge Uranium, and Water Rights

 

Trail of Broken Treaties Takeover of BIA headquarters in Washington, Nov. 3, 1972.

Buried in Time: BIA Takeover Documents Included Sterilizations, Pine Ridge Uranium, and Water Rights

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 15, 2024

Buried in Time: When the Trail of Broken Treaties arrived in Washington and took over the BIA headquarters, the documents discovered in the BIA file cabinets altered the course of history. In the caravans from the west coast and northwest were activists from local Indigenous frontline struggles, from Pit River, Survival American Indian, and Alcatraz.

The BIA documents exposed the secret plan of Oglala President Dick Wilson to turn over one-eighth of tribal land over to the federal government for uranium mining. In the ton of documents taken away in a U-Haul, the documents showed proof of the sterilization of Native women by Indian Health Service doctors.

And there was more.

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Mothers File in Supreme Court of Canada Oct. 15/24'



Breaking News. Read the article at Mohawk Nation News, and watch the video of the news conference.

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Mothers File in Supreme Court of Canada Oct. 15/24'

October 14, 2024

Zapatistas Call for International Meetings of Rebellions and Resistance 2024 --2025






Call for International Meetings of Rebellions and Resistance 2024-2025. Theme: The Storm and the Day After

October 2024.
Spanish, German, Italian

The Assembly of Collectives of Zapatista Autonomous Governments (ACEGAZ), the Zapatista communities and the EZLN call on all people, groups, collectives, organizations, movements and indigenous peoples who have signed the so-called Declaration for Life, to the…

International Meetings of Rebellions and Resistances

2024-2025.

White Mesa Ute: 'No to Uranium! Our Community is Not for Sale!'


Photo by Tim Peterson


Photo by Tim Peterson, Censored News

White Mesa Utes and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Say “No to Uranium! Our Community is Not for Sale!”

Article by Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Censored News

WHITE MESA UTE, Utah -- The long campaign by the White Mesa Ute people and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe against Energy Fuels’ uranium mill is heating up. The mill is located adjacent to the White Mesa Ute Community in southern Utah, is the last uranium mill in the United States, and was built literally on top of dozens of sacred and culturally significant sites including burials and ceremonial Kivas.


October 12, 2024

White Mesa Ute Community Spiritual Walk and Protest, Oct. 12, 2024


'Stop Contaminating My Future'



           Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Ute, thanked everyone for coming. “I want our community to be free of radiation. I want our kids to be growing up in a good environment," said Badback, co-founder of White Mesa Concerned Community. Photo by Ofelia Rivas.



Live Coverage! Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham

White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest

The Spiritual Walk began with a prayer song acknowledging the Creator this morning, and the reminder that this is Indigenous land. Walkers were asked to respond if they were called on to stop the trucks bringing in radioactive loads, with the reminder that the radioactive trucks are endangering everyone on the haul route.

Tó Nizhóní Ání Hydrogen Information Summit, Tuba City, Oct. 12, 2024

Photo courtesy Tó Nizhóní Ání



HYDROGEN INFORMATIONAL SUMMIT

Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání
Media Organizer
adrian@tonizhoniani.org

Tó Nizhóní Ání will be organizing a hydrogen informational summit for the Western Agency in Tuba City, Arizona for participants to learn more about hydrogen from subject matter experts and community perspectives.