Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

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Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

By Brenda Norrell

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April 15, 2023

Updated April 17, 2023

With the release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, the Intercept published its first article this week, revealing the details of how the mercenaries spied on Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

National Sheriffs' Association helped target LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

The TigerSwan spy files reveal that the mercenaries targeted individuals like LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, now in the Spirit World, who provided her home as the base of the Sacred Stone Camp when the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline began in 2016.

The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

 

The Intercept and Grist begin release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents

Article by Brenda Norrell

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French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7841

April 14, 2023

Updated April 16, 2023

The Intercept and Grist began releasing new TigerSwan spy documents in new coverage of the mercenaries hired by the Dakota Access Pipeline. They now have 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, and another 9,000 are held up in the court battle for now. The documents reveal TigerSwan spying on Water Protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, Bold Iowa, and at other locations.

Reporters Alleen Brown and Naveena Sadasivam expose the new spy documents in their article, After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest 'Counterinsurgency' to Other Oil Companies.

The University of Minnesota Committed Genocide

Ojibwe and Dakota were Targets of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by the University of Minnesota

By Dan Kraker and Melissa Olson

Minnesota Public Radio

Read the full report

https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/assets/full-report_tcm1193-572488.pdf

A massive new report details the University of Minnesota’s long history of mistreating the state’s Native people and lays out recommendations, including “perpetual reparations,” to improve relations between the university and Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations.

Among its troubling findings, the report by the TRUTH (Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing) Project concludes:

-- The U’s founding board of regents “committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples for financial gain, using the institution as a shell corporation through which to launder lands and resources.”

Driver Killing Myron Dewey Enters Plea Agreement of Guilty for Manslaughter

Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey

Driver of truck killing Paiute Journalist Myron Dewey enters into a plea agreement for a lesser charge

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

TONOPAH, Nevada -- John Walsh, the driver responsible for killing Paiute journalist Myron Dewey in a head-on collision on an isolated dirt road, entered a plea of guilty for vehicular manslaughter Tuesday afternoon, in the criminal case before Tonopah Justice Court Judge Jennifer Klapper.

Walsh's attorney entered the plea of the lesser charge of guilty for manslaughter. The plea agreement was arranged by Walsh's attorney and the prosecutor, a Nye County District Attorney, newly appointed to the case.

Myron's death remains suspicious as he was battling both the expansion of the Navy Seals Bombing Range in Fallon, pushed by the Nevada Congressmen, and a Canadian company's lithium mine on the Paiute Massacre site at Thacker Pass, promoted by President Biden. 

Jet Fighters Endanger Tohono O'odham

This jet, N635AX, operated by the private company ATAC flew repeated combat jet fighting missions over the Tohono O'odham Nation during the last two weeks of March 2023. It is based at Luke AFB Phoenix.

Tohono O'odham were not informed of jet combat training overhead, or that the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems had built an 11th spy tower in the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation

By Brenda Norrell

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Updated April 11, 2023

April 11, 2023

GU-VO District, Tohono O'odham Nation -- Jet combat fights above the western Tohono O'odham Nation this week endangered the lives of O'odham, who were not informed. The jets were identified as being owned by the private training company, ATAC, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, which uses second-hand jets. It is not the U.S. military.

The company, ATAC, based in Virginia, flew out of Phoenix and engaged in simulated air combat over the Tohono O'odham District of Gu-Vo between 7 and 9 p.m. local time on Wednesday. ATAC has air combat training contracts with the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force.

"Living out here on the land, we are not fully informed, and we have not given permission for them to fly over us," said Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, who lives in Gu-Vo District.

Quechan Preston Arrow-weed 'The Land You Know Has Been Given to You'

Quechan elder Preston Arrow-weed

The Land You Know Has Been Given to You

The Gold Mine

Robert Lundahl

I just turned the recording on so we're official. It’s really nice to meet you could you could you both introduce yourselves for whomever might be listening to this podcast or reading this article – who are you and why are you here and where are you?

Preston Arrow-Weed

Preston J Arrow–weed, I'm on the Fort Yuma reservation. What else do you need?

Robert Lundahl Who is the fellow next to you?

Preston Arrow-Weed Oh this is Faron.

Faron Owl

Basically I've worked with Preston and just trying to help as much as I can on all these fights that we're involved with but it's been very good experience.

Robert Lundahl

I've been paying attention and that's what I wanted to talk to you about, so could you describe the event the other day? You guys had a run and went out to a sacred place with a geoglyph, and an official BLM geo-glyph sign there. So this is close to Oro Cruz, which is a gold mine is that correct?