Tags
Stop Barrick Gold From Destroying Mount Tenabo!
Mount Tenabo, an area of major cultural and Spiritual importance to the Western Shoshone People, is now facing imminent destruction. Last week the U.S. Department of Interior gave the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold approval to go ahead with its massive cyanide heap leach gold mine known as the Cortez Hills Expansion Project. As Explained in [...]
Yucca Mountain today, nuclear dump ‘forever’?
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) application for the proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dumpsite in Nevada has been accepted for review by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). “After three decades of site studies, this action officially kicks off the Yucca Mountain repository licensing proceeding,” explains a September 8 bulletin from Beyond Nuclear. “The [...]
Reclaiming Sacred Dakota Land in Minnesota
On September 2nd, members of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate (Dakota Nation) reclaimed a sacred site known as Coldwater Spring, in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Regarded by the Dakota people as integral to their Spiritual life, Coldwater Spring has been “littered with dilapidated structures and the soil… polluted from [...]
US Apartheid of Indigenous People Detailed in UN Report
The International Indian Treaty Council will soon present the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with a document that reveals America’s legacy of systemic racism, forced assimilation and apartheid of Indigenous Peoples. The 87-page Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report, which has been prepared with testimony from a number of individuals, covers issues such as: [...]
Lakota Delegation Withdraws From U.S. Treaties
Today, a group of Lakota calling themselves the Lakota Freedom Delegation are in Washington DC to announce their Nation’s withdrawal from all U.S. Treaties. Information is fairly short at the moment, but they sent out a press release last week, explaining: “For far too long our people have suffered at the hands of the colonial apartheid [...]
Sulfide mine violates Treaties, threatens Great Lakes
The state of Michigan on Friday handed a huge defeat to Indigenous People, environmental groups and others who have actively opposed a controversial sulfide mine that the Kennecott Minerals Company – an international mining company with one of the worst environmental records in the world – wants to build in the pristine Yellow Dog Plains [...]
Defenders of the Black Hills
This 12-minute video, produced by the Seventh Generation Fund, discusses the Defenders of the Black Hills, “a group of volunteers, without racial or tribal boundaries, whose mission is to ensure that all of the provisions of the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868 are upheld by the federal government of the United [...]
Comments
- Per Olsen. Denmark on Protect the Glen Cove Sacred Burial Site!:
- Claudia Sorrentino on Join the Campaign in Defense of the Xingu River:
- Antonio Nariño on Canadian company linked to Indigenous murders in Colombia:
- BJD on Mexico: The Lacandona Rainforest is being cleared of its People:
- Benigno on Canadian company linked to Indigenous murders in Colombia:
