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• IRS Auctions off Sioux land to pay back taxes

  

  December 4, 2009  2,759 views 14 comments Share

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  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has auctioned off 7,100 acres of land belonging to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in central South Dakota, one of the most impoverished reservations in the United States. The land was sold on Thursday in a bold but hardly shocking attempt by the IRS to recover $3.1 million in federal [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • land • Sioux • treaties

• UN asked to stop guns at Akwesasne border

  

  May 28, 2009  2,192 views 5 comments Share

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  Mohawk Nation News sends the following news and call for action surrounding the upcoming peaceful demonstration in Akwesasne. See the full story (and a full list of contacts) below... UPDATE: there is also a petition you can sign here. Skarohreh Doug Anderson of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy presented a request to the Secretary of the UN [...]

  Filed Under Canada • haudenosaunee • Jay Treaty • Mohawks • Ontario • petition • Six Nations • treaties • United Nations

• Lakota Win Standing to Oppose Uranium Mine

  

  December 15, 2008  1,825 views 0 Comments Share

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  A panel of judges from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the Lakota and other petitioners, standing to argue against the license renewal of Cameco Inc.’s In Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mine near Crawford, Nebraska. The decision was announced on November 21, nearly four months after the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Oglala Delegation of [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • events • Indigenous Peoples • Lakota • mining • Successes • toxins • treaties • uranium • water

• Defenders of Mount Tenabo Constructing Encampment

  

  December 1, 2008  1,801 views 0 Comments Share

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  At some point today, several Shoshone men will begin constructing a permanent arbor on the Southern flank of Mt. Tenabo, where they will camp and monitor the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold. The encampment was called on during last week's protest, where Shoshone Grandmothers and their supporters attempted to confront Barrick Gold and bring an [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Canada • gold • Indigenous Peoples • mining • Shoshone • toxins • treaties

• Shoshone Grandmothers Plan to Resist Proposed Mine Site

  

  November 26, 2008  1,933 views 1 comment Share

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  The Western Shoshone Defense Project has sent out an update on Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills Expansion Project and the effort to stop it. The company has indeed begun 'construction', ripping out trees at a reported rate of 30 acres per day. On Monday, attorneys for several Western Shoshone tribes and indigenous and environmental organizations filed [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • mining • Shoshone • treaties

• Stop Barrick Gold From Destroying Mount Tenabo!

  

  November 21, 2008  3,792 views 1 comment Share

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  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 [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Canada • gold • Shoshone • treaties

• Defenders of the Land Gathering

  

  November 12, 2008  2,696 views 6 comments Share

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  Organizers, leaders, and spokespeople from Indigenous communities involved in land struggles with the Canadian and Provincial Governments have assembled in Winnipeg for the Defenders of the Land Gathering, to share strategies and ideas for how to best achieve land rights and self-determination. The gathering runs from November 12-14th, 2008, and will feature presentations by members [...]

  Filed Under Canada • conferences • events • Indigenous Peoples • treaties • unity