Apache Stronghold '250 Years Later, What Does Freedom Mean for Indigenous Peoples?'

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Apache Stronghold '250 Years Later, What Does Freedom Mean for Indigenous Peoples?'

By Laak’os Parsons, Member of Apache Stronghold,

Censored News, June 29, 2026

As the United States prepares to commemorate the 250th  anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I find myself  asking a different question: What does independence mean for  Indigenous peoples whose lands, religions, and sovereignty continue  to be threatened?  

As a young Indigenous woman, I am fighting to protect my identity, defend our sacred sites, and preserve a future for the generations who will come after me. For me, this anniversary is less a  celebration than a reminder that the nation's founding brought  extreme losses for Indigenous peoples—our lands, sovereignty, cultures, and countless lives. It is also a reminder that many of those  struggles continue today.  

California: The State of Genocide and Forced Sterilizations of Native People

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

 Floyd Westernman planned to produce a series on genocide in the U.S., and completed the first film before he passed. This article, from years ago, shares this story, and is one of Censored News most viewed articles today. Among the most censored facts in the U.S. is the history of the Smithsonian and other museums that paid bounties for Native people, and the grave robbing that the museums facilitated. The bounty hunters were responsible for the Massacre of women and children at Sand Creek. The sterilization of Native women by IHS doctors was kept secret for years. It was only after the BIA offices were taken over in Washington in 1972, and BIA documents were seized, that the truth came out. The facts in the documents were later published in Akwesasne Notes. -- Censored News 2026

California: The State of Genocide and Forced Sterilizations of Native People

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News, March 22, 2023

Floyd Westerman, shortly before he passed, announced his plan for a series of films on the genocide of Native people. Floyd said he planned to begin in California, exposing the mission, gold mines, and attempts to exterminate Native people, and then continue east to produce this series.

The first of these films was completed before Floyd passed.

'Native american Holocaust -- Exterminate Them! The California Story,' documents the holocaust committed against the native people of California by the state and federal governments. Floyd reveals the bullets, smallpox blankets, kidnapping of Native children, and oppressive concentration camps, carried out by California and the United States government in this attempt at extermination.

Mohawk Nation News 'The Red-X Speaks: 'House Mohawk' Continues to Disparage Field Warriors'

Mohawk Nation News

'The Red-X Speaks: "House Mohawk" Continues to Disparage Field Warriors.

Read at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2026/06/23/the-red-x-speaks-house-mohawk-continues-to-disparage-field-warriors/

 

World Peace and Prayer Day: The Power of Spirit

World Peace and Prayer Day: The Power of Spirit

Sarah James, Gwich'in, sends a message to World Peace and Prayer Day of love from the far north, with a prayer for the caribou and the hope of an end to all wars.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota, speaking at World Peace and Prayer Day 2026

Watch 7 hour video broadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzYmFvavdA

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, noon, June 21, 2026

Mathó Pahá (Bear Butte) South Dakota -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse began by recognizing Crazy Horse, and saying the horseback riders are coming from Green Grass and will proceed to Greasy Grass, the Little Big Horn, for the 150th Anniversary.

"Mother Earth is sick, and we are sick, because we nourish from Mother Earth," Chief Looking Horse said as World Peace and Prayer Day began at Bear Butte.

Mohawk Nation News 'Warrior Society: Rebellion Against the Great Law'

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Posted on June 21, 2026 by Kan1enkehaka

WARRIOR SOCIETY: REBELLION AGAINST THE GREAT LAW

Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2026/06/21/warrior-society-rebellion-against-the-great-law/

Karonhiaktajeh (Louis Hall) was Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Kahnawake, unceded sovereign Mohawk Territory. Karonhiaktajeh foresaw our struggles as Native People and prepared us for the coming revolution/evolution. Karonhiaktajeh is one of our great visionaries, and I, Kahentinetha, have a duty to share with the world one of his final messages before he died in 1993.

The Mohawk Warrior Society by Louis Hall, as seen in CBC Books

There is a revolution, not just brewing, but in effect in the Iroquois Confederacy. The rebels are not the bearded, uncouth and unkempt characters skulking in the dark alleys of a city. These are Iroquois Chiefs and some followers who are revolting against the Great Law, Gayanerekowa, many parts of which were copied in the United States Constitution which in turn were copied by other constitutions in the world. The Great Law is the Iroquois Constitution which the rebels have put aside and have installed the Handsome Lake Code in its place. The Handsome Lake Code is a copy of the Quaker Code which is not an Indian device.

Dine' Jack Ahasteen and the Death of Journalism

Dine' Jack Ahasteen and the Death of Journalism

Jack Ahasteen cartoon

Dine' Cartoonist Jack Ahasteen expected the Navajo Times to protect his intellectual copyrights, and after a lifetime of hard work, he expected fair pay. He got neither, and was booted out the door at Navajo Times.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 16, 2026

Updated June 22, 2026

Dine' cartoonist Jack Ahasteen spent his life telling the truth. When he went to the Navajo Times to renegotiate his pay, he was booted out the door. Now Navajo Times, instead of honoring him, has posted this on the Navajo Times website, in the most recent case of the death of journalism.