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| Wendsler Nosie, Sr., at U.S. Supreme Court today. Photo courtesy Apache Stronghold |
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By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 23, 2025
John Redhouse's new book documents the racism in the bordertown of Farmington, N.M., and the torture murders of Navajos by white teenagers in the 1970s. The intrinsic mix of racism continued in the decades that followed, and involved judges and their families, violence by police officers, and the heavy flow of oil, gas and coal mine workers -- producing a vile mix of one of the first huge man camps in the energy industry.
It didn't end there.
Under the banner of green, the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, a tribal enterprise, bought coal mines in Wyoming and Montana without consent from the tribal government, mines which continue to operate, and recently planned to dig into Hualapai's Ceremonial Big Spring for lithium, before a federal judge halted it.
The media tiptoes around Farmington as a base for exploitation, as it did when it failed to publish the facts of former Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's announcement here.
Flying under the banner of "green," Haaland announced that the atomic bomb industry would lead the so-called "energy transition." Haaland failed to point out that Los Alamos National Labs has already poisoned the air, water and land in the heart of the Pueblos in northern New Mexico, her mother's homeland. Another fact was missing: There is no safe way to store nuclear waste.
Haaland's announcement came with the new push for more nuclear energy, and transport and dumping of nuclear waste in Indian country. The Four Corners is now a new target for dumping and abuse, as radioactive trucks now cross the Navajo Navajo, Hopi Nation and region, and nuclear dumping continues in the White Mesa Ute community in Utah.
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| Wendsler Nosie, Sr., at U.S. Supreme Court today. |
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| Today at the U.S. Supreme Court. Photo Apache Stronghold |
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"Children in DC yesterday made creative prayers of art to protect Oak Flat. Mother Earth is suffering. We are all suffering. We need re-connection to our Mother, Gods greatest gift to us to heal us. We pray that the Supreme Court will accept the Apache Stronghold petition and then step outside this system of colonization against empire to return to a path of healing to protect our Mother Earth and all people and the generations to come." -- Photo courtesy Steve Pavey |
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