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April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment | 213 views
Brenda Norrell informs us that the judge presiding over the Lipan Apache lands right case has ruled in favor of Homeland Security, giving them access to survey Eloisa Tamez land so they can decide on what they want to take for the infamous, ill-conceived, and ultimately redundant Border Wall.
“The action follows the Nazi-style action of Homeland Security in April, voiding all federal laws to build the border wall, including NAGPRA, American Indian Religious Freedom Act and all environmental laws that protect species such as the …
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment | 561 views
Sorry for the short notice, but in about half an hour–at 10:00 am PST–a coalition of individual property owners along with Indigenous and border community leaders will be holding a national telephonic media conference and briefing to announce their intent to fight the Department of Homeland Security’s threatened seizure of their property along the border. See here for background.
INDIGENOUS SPOKESPERSONS on the call will include Enrique Madrid, Jumano Apache community member, Texas Historical Commission, Redford, TX; Gabriel Carrasco, Chief of the Jumano Apache, Redford/El Paso, TX; José …
November 18, 2007 | 51 Comments | 33,985 views
March 2. 2008: Please note, there have been several updates posted in the comments since this article was initially posted. See the bottom of this post for an overview (includes petitions, media, and contact info)
Margo Tamez recently sent out the following urgent call for support, explaining that since July, her Mother and Elders of el Calaboz, Texas, have been the targets of numerous threats and harassments by the Border Patrol, Army Corps of Engineers, NSA, and the U.S. related to the proposed building of a fence on …
July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment | 584 views
Here’s an urgent online petition to help protect Apache Leap and numerous other Sacred sites from desecration by copper mining. The land in question is part of the ancestral lands of the sovereign Native Nations of the Apache, Yavapai, Hopi, and O’Odham.
These Nations have not given permission for this land to be mined—and yet, there’s a bill in US congress about to pass which would grant the Canadian mining Company Resolution Copper, unmitigated access to the land.
In other words, the bill will make them exempt from all NEPA mandated …
