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February 25, 2007 | 4 Comments | 1,324 views
First Nations Activist Dies After Release from Jail
By Zoe Blunt, www.zoeblunt.gnn.tv
24 Feb 2007
In memory of Harriet Nahanee, age 71
VANCOUVER - A community is in mourning following news of the death of a great-grandmother who fought to defend aboriginal rights and the environment. Activist Harriet Nahanee died at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, February 24, one month after she was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands for a highway bypass.
The woman who once said that natives need an “aboriginal Malcolm X” to restore their pride will be
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January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment | 727 views
Here are two separate stories, which I received at the same time, in my email. Both of these, I feel, exemplify how small and petty various governments and so-called authorities with special-interests are — that they would arrest and seek to punish Grandmothers - Grandmothers! who did nothing but work for their People, and to protect the land. How big and strong this must make them feel.
From Rita, friends of grassy narrows mailing list
Please support the immediate release of this elder/grandmother activist and clan mother of the Squamish Nation.
Support the immediate release of Harriet Nahanee.
This is truly disgusting and …
December 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment | 798 views
from Black Mesa Indigenous Support. Please call President Shirely! If you are in the area or know anyone in the area please get out to the site and be a Legal Observer!
RED ALERT!
DINE’ GRANDMAS ARE BEING ARRESTED!
21 Navajo Police Paddy Wagons and Police Vehicles Just Arrived at the Blockade! [Thursday, December 21, 2006, 12 Noon Mountain State Time]
We have just received reports from ground zero of the Blockade site that the Navajo Police are making arrests! Grandmothers are being arrested. The men were not at the camp and were collecting
firewood.
We are asking that supporters – far and wide – immediately …
November 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment | 551 views
Black Mesa Elder Rena Babbitt-Lane (approx. 80 yrs old) is in the hospital recovering from a minor heart attack and other injuries after an incident of harrasment by BIA/Hopi Rangers earlier this week.
STATEMENT OF RENA BABBIT LANE:
“My sheep herder had left recently, so I was home alone and I took the sheep out to a close area where they like to graze. This was Monday, November 3rd. Three of the goats somehow ran through the partition fence and I could not get them back across. I cut the fence and herded the sheep through and put them all …
September 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment | 705 views
Great-grandmother arrested for joining blockade to stop ‘threat’,
Published: The Vancouver Province. Monday, September 11, 2006
A native great-grandmother has been arrested in a bid to stop B.C.’s first new metal mine in 10 years.
BCMetals Corp. believes the Red Chris mine in northern B.C. contains almost a million tonnes of copper and 1.2 million ounces of gold.
But Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer, 67, who was arrested Saturday, says the proposed open-pit operation south of Dease Lake would violate sacred ground, threaten traditional hunting land and ruin fisheries.
“The land means so much to our people,” Moyer said yesterday. “We don’t want to see …
