Havasupai Urge Halt to Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon as Bill Moves through U.S. Senate

Three generations of Havasupai members demonstrate against uranium extraction outside the Grand Canyon mine site. Photograph: Courtesy of the Grand Canyon Trust.

Havasupai Urge Halt to Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon as Bill Moves through U.S. Senate

United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Votes 10-10 Along Party Lines; Bill Should Move to Full Senate

The Pinyon Plain Mine, previously known as Canyon Mine is located at Maŧ Ŧivjudvah and sits directly above the largest aquifer that feeds into Havasu Creek, the main source of drinking water for Havasupai and metropolitan cities downstream. Contamination from the Pinyon Plain Mine has already contaminated millions of gallons of precious water to be unusable and wasted.

By Havasupai Nation

Contact: Abbie S. Fink

afink@hmapr.com/

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7235

July 21, 2022

HAVASUPAI NATION, Supai, Arizona -- The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources voted 10 to 10 on Senate Bill 387 during today’s committee meeting. Not surprisingly, the 20 Senators voted along party lines, leaving the decision to Senate leadership to determine the fate of the bill.

Mohawk Nation News 'Kahnawake Hospital Under Fire'

KAHNAWAKE HOSPITAL UNDER FIRE Audio

Posted on July 21, 2022

Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2022/07/21/kahnawake-hospital-under-fire-audio/

Kateri Hospital of Kahnawake is run by the band council on behalf of the Canadian government. People have complained for years and those in charge don't hear.   

AUDIO in four parts. Kateri Hospital Under Fire

STEVE BONSPIEL, The Eastern Door, Kahnawake, www.easterndoor.com vol. 31 no. 28 Fri. July 15, 2022.ed8ae9b4-c773-4dbd-a0a5-44a828690486

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Driver Charged for Death of Paiute Shoshone Journalist Myron Dewey

Paiute Shoshone Journalist Myron Dewey at Standing Rock

Breaking News

Driver Charged with DUI in Death of Paiute Shoshone Journalist Myron Dewey

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

July 18, 2022

Update July 19, 2022

The driver who hit Paiute Shoshone Journalist Myron Dewey head-on has been charged with DUI resulting in death. John David Walsh of Reno was charged with a second charge of reckless driving resulting in death.

Walsh is scheduled to be arraigned on September 7, nearly one year after the fatal accident that claimed the life of Dewey near his family's home in Yomba, Nevada, on September 26, 2021. Walsh was charged in Tonopah Criminal Court on July 11.

Myron's daughter Taylor Dewey told News 4 that the case was reopened after the blood test was re-examined.

Artist Acquitted After Being Charged for Facebook Post Supporting Line 3 Water Protectors

Matteson supporters stage support at the Aitkin courthouse today against the “Bogus Charges” brought against her (photo: Keri Pickett) 

Artist Acquitted After Charge for Facebook Post Supporting Line 3 Water Protectors
Shanai Matteson Acquitted – Judge Metzen Tosses Case Moments before Jury Trial Begins

It is clear from the evidence that the defendant did not commit a crime”— Judge Metzen

By Cheryl BarndsHonor the EarthJuly 14, 2022
AITKIN, MINN – This morning at the Aitkin County Courthouse, District 9 Judge Leslie Mae Metzen acquitted Line 3 Water Protector, Shanai Matteson, of Gross Misdemeanor Aiding and Abetting Trespass on Critical Public Service Facilities, essentially finding Matteson Not Guilty before the case was presented to the jury of six selected yesterday.
The fifth-generation resident of Palisade, Minn., cultural organizer, artist and mother of two young children faced up to one year in jail and thousands of dollars in fines.

Matteson was charged – by mail – after police surveilled her personal Facebook page where she made comments about opposing Line 3 construction and supporting protesters along the tar sands oil pipeline.

Winter-Run Salmon Eggs Returned to Winnemem Waywacket River

Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Eggs Returned To McCloud River: Drought Action Moves Endangered Salmon Back Into Their Historical Habitat For First Time Since Construction Of Shasta Dam

Ryn4Salmon YouTube

“We put down that song so they have a fighting chance.” -- Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Salmon have been missing from the waters of Winnemem's Waywacket River for eighty years.

“We are asking that the river receive these eggs. We are asking that the old-time ways continue and that they grow in that way,” said Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk, during the ceremony that preceded the eggs’ return to the river.

“We put down that song so they have a fighting chance.”

There was a celebration, as endangered winter-run Chinook salmon eggs returned to the McCloud River upstream of Shasta Reservoir on Monday. The salmon are returning for the first time since the construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s.

"Salmon eggs were placed in an incubation tank beside the stream at a historical village site of the Winnemem Wintu people," said Run4Salmon, that is underway throughout July.

"This historic event is one step in the journey that was launched in 2010, when Winnemem tribal members went to Aotearoa (New Zealand) to sing and dance for their salmon relatives that have been waiting for 100 years to return to their home waters."

Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration July 16, 2022

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Photo courtesy Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment

Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration July 16, 2022

 

By Kirena Tsosie

Chris Shuey Southwest Research and Information Center 

French translation by Christine Prat for Censored News

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7231

Every year at this time, the Red Water Pond Road Community Association (RWPRCA) of the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico gathers to remember the impacts of the largest release of radioactive waste, by volume, in U.S. history. An estimated 94 million gallons of toxic uranium mill tailings wastewater spilled into the Puerco River from a breach in a dam at the United Nuclear Corp. (UNC) uranium mill on July 16, 1979.