Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

July 14, 2025

Now! U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Begins in Geneva 2025



Haudenosaunee Title Holder opens United Nations session with a prayer of thanks and tells the United Nations that Indigenous Nations must be treated as an equal.

"This will be the last you will hear from me until the States can recognize the Haudenosaunee and all Indigenous Nations as an equal, because we are. We have our own governments and we need to be recognized as such," Chief Deskaheh told the United Nations.

July 12, 2025

John Redhouse's Book Launch Details 'The Hate Crime Capital of the West'



Diné John Redhouse: Invasion and Genocide: The War on Native People is Ongoing

John Redhouse, Navajo and Ute, launched his new book on bordertown racism, and described how the history of the Four Corners region, with massive coal-fired power plants and oil and gas fields, ultimately led to Farmington, New Mexico, becoming the Hate Crime Capitol of the World. During book launches in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Albuquerque and Farmington, Redhouse describes the organized resistance to the racism and torture murders of Navajos by white teenagers in the bordertown.

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 12, 2025
Censored News at Indybay, New Today

ALBUQUERQUE -- "This book has been crying out to be published," John Redhouse said, as he named the great writers he was inspired by as a high school graduate in Farmington when he joined the National Indian Youth Council. "The Red Power Movement was, and still is, very much alive in the Southwest."

July 7, 2025

Cherokee Chief Hoskin's Statement -- Dangerous Hate Speech Targets Native Professor on Twitter/X



Cherokee Chief Hoskin Statement: Dangerous Hate Speech Targets Native Professor on Twitter/X

By Chuck Hoskin, Jr, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, July 6, 2025


Ann Coulter’s post this evening on X that “we didn’t kill enough Indians,” is beyond abhorrent. It is dangerous hate speech designed to inflict damage on a marginalized community and designed arose support in the deepest darkest gutters of social media. Although it is tempting to decline to dignify her regressive attack on Native Americans, I cannot and will not. This is no time for timidity.


Post on Twitter/X

NCAI Condemns Ann Coulter’s “We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians” Violent and Shameful Hate Speech Targeting Tribal Nations

 

NCAI Condemns Ann Coulter’s “We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians” Violent and Shameful Hate Speech Targeting Tribal Nations

NCAI Condemns Ann Coulter’s “We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians” Violent and Shameful Hate Speech Targeting Tribal Nations

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) emphatically condemns the hateful, genocidal statement of Ann Coulter on July 6, 2025, through a post on the social platform X, declaring: “We didn’t kill enough Indians.” There is no place in society for this direct incitement of hatred and violence toward American Indian and Alaska Native people.

On the Fourth of July, John Redhouse Pinpoints Coal-Fired Racism in Farmington

 

John Redhouse (right) Coalition for Navajo Liberation, Farmington 1974. Photo by Bob Fitch.

On the Fourth of July, John Redhouse Pinpoints Coal-Fired Racism in Farmington

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 7, 2025

Part III in our series

FARMINGTON, New Mexico -- John Redhouse, Dine' and Ute, described the Long Hot Summer of 1974, during the launch of his new book, describing the resistance to the torture murders of Navajos in the bordertown of Farmington by white teenagers.

John describes how the coal mining, and oil and gas industry, drew racists to this bordertown, as he launched his new memoir, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s.

John said there are times when there is no choice but to "strike back with the decisiveness of a rattlesnake."

July 6, 2025

STANDING ROCK: Greenpeace Now Challenging Energy Transfer in Dutch Court over $660 Million SLAPP Suit


Photo: Water Protectors defending water and land at Standing Rock 2016. In the current lawsuit, Energy Transfer falsely claimed that Greenpeace led the movement. A jury in Mandan, North Dakota awarded the pipeline more than $660 million. Most Water Protectors didn't even know that Greenpeace was there. Greenpeace case now begins challenging the pipeline's lawsuit in a Dutch court. -- Censored News


STANDING ROCK: Greenpeace Challenging Energy Transfer in Dutch Court over $660 Million SLAPP Suit 

Militarized police protecting Dakota Access Pipeline. Standing Rock 2016.

By Greenpeace USA, Censored News, July 5, 2025

BREAKING: Greenpeace International is officially taking Big Oil company Energy Transfer to court in the Netherlands for their attacks on free speech and peaceful protest. Let’s talk about why this case is groundbreaking.

As you may know, a few months ago a North Dakota jury decided that Greenpeace entities in the U.S. and Greenpeace International are liable for over $660 million in damages in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit against the three separate organizations over the Indigenous-led Dakota Access Pipeline protests.