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• Tell the US to Endorse the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights

  

  July 23, 2010  350 views 3 comments Share

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  Please take a moment to urge US President Obama to Endorse the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights! On April 20, 2010, during the Ninth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, US representative to the UN, Ambassador Susan E. Rice announced that the US government would formally review its position on the UN [...]

  Filed Under America • Indigenous Peoples • UNDRIP • United Nations

• From Ecuador to Nigeria to the Gulf of Mexico

  

  July 14, 2010  270 views 2 comments Share

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  Oil industry sycophants, with their dollar store logic, are quick to tell us that oil spills are one of those 'unfortunate facts of life', like taxes in a market economy or Geraldo Rivera becoming a journalist. They're tragedies that we're just supposed to live with, they tell us. After all, 'We're only human. We all [...]

  Filed Under America • Ecuador • Indigenous Peoples • Nigeria • oil

• Shoshone lose court bid to protect Mount Tenabo

  

  June 27, 2010  300 views 8 comments Share

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  The Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone have lost another court bid to stop the expansion of the Cortez Hills mine project on their traditional territory. On June 18, 2010, the U.S. Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to rule against the Shoshone, reversing its previous ruling in December 2009 that ordered a temporarily [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • court rulings • gold • Indigenous Peoples • Sacred Sites • Shoshone

• Eagle Rock Defenders camp ‘crushed’ by Police

  

  May 28, 2010  984 views 32 comments Share

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  Dozens of heavily armed Police and State Troopers have raided the peaceful defenders camp at Eagle Rock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; "crushing" the month-long effort to protect the sacred site from a controversial sulfide mine. Greg Peterson Reports. Raid at Eagle Rock; Two campers arrested, camp destroyed By Greg Peterson, Today correspondent BIG BAY, Mich. [...]

  Filed Under America • copper • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • mining • Sacred Sites

• San Carlos Apache Nation calls for removal of Resolution Copper

  

  May 10, 2010  345 views 1 comment Share

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  In the statement below, Vernelda Grant, a representative from the San Carlos Apache Nation, speaks out against Resolution Copper's proposed underground mining project in southeastern Arizona. The statement, which calls for "the immediate removal of Resolution Copper Company from further desecrating the holy and sacred Oak Flat and Apache Leap", was read during the recent [...]

  Filed Under America • Apache • copper • environment • Indigenous Peoples • mining • Sacred Sites

• Urgent: Join tribes at Sacred Eagle Rock in Michigan to prevent Acid Mine

  

  May 1, 2010  628 views 33 comments Share

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  Indigenous People and non-native supporters have set up a protest camp at the base of Sacred Eagle Rock in northern Michigan. The multi-tribe encampment, it is feared, "could be raided by mine guards and police at any moment". If you are in the area or willing to travel, you are encouraged to visit the site [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • America • Indigenous Peoples • mining • Sacred Sites • video

• America’s renewed legacy of destroying Indigenous cultures

  

  April 14, 2010  739 views 6 comments Share

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  During his election campaign in 2008, U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to help protect Indigenous Cultural Rights and Sacred places, stating in his platform that "Native American sacred places and site-specific ceremonies are under threat from development, pollution, and vandalism. Barack Obama supports legal protections for sacred places and cultural traditions, including Native ancestors' burial [...]

  Filed Under America • Burial Grounds • California • Indigenous Peoples • reports • Sacred Sites