Cooking for Relatives: Lakota Candi Brings Plenty Remembers her Father

Cooking for Relatives: Lakota Candi Brings Plenty Remembers her Father 

By Candi Brings Plenty

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January 11, 2022

Tonight I cooked for the Meals for Relatives COVID-19 Rapid City Community Response in honor of my Até Mato (Papa Bear), today is his birthday. We took a break from community cooking when the numbers went down, the Wotakuye Mutual Aid Society provided aid packages in the meantime. But as we all know, our Covid numbers sky rocketed and today is South Dakota’s highest Covid cases since the beginning of this pandemic.

I cooked and drove tonight, my delivery person wasn’t able to drive because they got exposed today and had to quarantine. My kiddos were out of town, but Carson James helped me out…I drove and he delivered the food to each door. We listened to country music, my dads playlist I made for him when he was in the hospital before making his journey. Each meal had a mini pecan pie, his favorite.

O'odham Ophelia Rivas: Celebrating the Life of Jeff Hendricks

By Ophelia Rivas

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To my friends and supporters,

Today is the first anniversary of honorable warrior, Jeff Hendricks of O’odham Solidarity Project.

Today is our letting go ceremony day, we have mourned our friend for this past year.

Today we celebrate our memories of Jeff in conversations, many walks and many friends. A very humbling experience with Jeff when he came to my house driving from California to O’odham lands on a mission to climb on the sacred mountain and overnight there. All I could give him was a walking stick to help him up the mountain. He did not have to tell me why he was making his journey he understood well what the mountain is. I asked him to take many photos of the mountain 7,730 feet view of O’odham lands.

I recall in 2005, Resistant Culture, a metal punk band from San Pedro, California invited me to speak on O’odham Rights and Militarization of O’odham Lands during one of their shows. In a large venue overfilled with punk and metal young people, sitting at a merchandise table waiting for a break in their set to go on stage, I met Jeff. He was very quiet and respectful. Jeff was interested in helping our grassroots group O’odham VOICE Against the WALL by creating a website to build support. The next 6 years he visited O’odham lands several times to meet the group of Elders to understand our work on O’odham Rights which include cultural rights and transnational border crossing rights and Human Rights which are defined by national and global legal documents. The grassroots organization has been supported by the efforts of Jeff for 16 years.

His deep respect and unique character of honor Jeff was respected by the O’odham Elders. Jeff walked many miles with us to show support and solidarity to both the youth and Elder group. Written words were one of his great gifts to O’odham VOICE Against the WALL as he organized and wrote many words on paper for us. We have many memories of him that will stay a lifetime.

Today we Thank You and Honor your life Jeff and let you go. Much Love and Respect.

Thank you, parents of Jeff, Carol and John.

Ophelia Rivas of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL

New website:

https://www.oodhamrights.org/

In Dignified Solidarity
P.O. Box 1835
Sells, Arizona 85634

Article and photo copyright Ophelia Rivas.

MOHAWK NATION NEWS -- KAHNISTENSERA TO STRIKE OUT MCGILL, ROYAL VIC, MONTREAL & STANTIC

Posted on January 11, 2022

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The teiohateh two row is the relationship between us and the colonists, the canoe and the ship. The peace, friendship and respect was to keep us side by side on our land and water. The ship is temporarily tied to our land with the silver covenant chain. We are now asking those on the ship to respond.   

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 MNN. Jan. 10, 2022. Section 35 [1] of the Constitution Act of Canada, 1982, provides “the existing precolonial aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal people [of turtle island] ARE HEREBY RECOGNIZED AND AFFIRMED”. Section 52 [1] affirms that “‘any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, OF NO FORCE OR EFFECT. 

Therefore, the kaianerekowa, which is the existing aboriginal legal system which we have inherited from precolonial times which was never revoked or conceded, is the supreme law of “Canada”. All laws not recognized by kaianerekowa are of no force or effect on any of our land.

Fallon Paiute Shoshone: Judge Halts Geothermal Project Days Before Bulldozers Start Destroying Sacred Springs

Judge Halts Nevada Geothermal Energy Project Days Before Bulldozers Set to Start Destroying Sacred Springs

By Center for Biological Diversity

Patrick Donnelly pdonnelly@biologicaldiversity.org
January 4, 2022
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RENO, Nevada — A federal judge today halted the start of construction on the Dixie Meadows geothermal energy project in central Nevada. The judge found that the project posed significant risk of harm to the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and the ecosystems there.

Today’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones responds to a Dec. 16 lawsuit filed by the Tribe and the Center for Biological Diversity against the Bureau of Land Management for approving the project. The lawsuit says construction of the geothermal energy project threatens to dry up hot springs that are sacred to the Tribe and form a huge wetland ecosystem that is an oasis in the Great Basin Desert.

Rights of Salmon Case Brought Against City of Seattle, by Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe

Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe Brings First 'Rights of Salmon' Case

Southern Resident orcas, Tribe depend on Skagit River salmon

Case follows Chippewa litigation filed to protect wild rice and treaty rights


Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights

Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, tal@pa.net
Censored News
January 11, 2022

DARRINGTON, Washington -- On January 6, the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle. The case, filed by the Tribe on its own behalf and on behalf of Tsuladxw (salmon in the Tribe's language), was filed in Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Court.

The Tribe seeks recognition that salmon have inherent rights to "exist, flourish, regenerate…and restoration," and that the Tribe possesses the duty to "protect and save" salmon in the face of continued harm and decline, including from the City of Seattle's dams on the Skagit River.