Hopi Tribe Urges End To US Government Shutdown; Shutdown Violates Trust Obligations Of The US Government
Hopi Tribe Open Letter/News Release: “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2019 Open Letter to Arizona Congressional Leaders Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – …
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Democrats Need to Learn from US Congresswoman-Elect Deb Haaland’s Historic Win
US Congresswoman-Elect Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids will be the two first Native American/American Indian women to serve in the …
Historic Firsts: Deb Haaland & Sharice Davids Will Be First Native American Women To Serve In the US Congress
Finally two historic firsts: Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids will be the first Native American/American Indian women to serve in …
Trump Linked Casino Designer (Friedmutter) & Trump Brand Hotel Developer (Chawla) Give Big To Roger Wicker’s Campaign For US Senator From Mississippi
Matthews was discussed here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/largest-donor-to-mississippi-senator-wickers-re-election-campaign-is-palm-beach-florida-investor/ A Trump connected casino designer named Friedmutter, who lives in Nevada, and a Canadian born …
Tribal Officials, Democrats Push Back On 9th Circuit Judicial Nominee
“Native American groups oppose Seattle attorney Eric Miller’s nomination because they say he has made a name for himself by …
Native Americans Worry Trump Supreme Court Pick (Kavanaugh) Threatens Sovereignty
From VOA: “Native Americans Worry Trump Supreme Court Pick Threatens Sovereignty September 07, 2018 1:52 PM, by Cecily Hilleary WASHINGTON …
National Tribal Air Association Comment Opposing Proposed EPA Rule
Comment by Thursday night, 1159 US Eastern Time. It becomes public record. Comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Comment submitted …
Critical Minerals: Mining Involving Public Mineral Rights Should Be Nationalized; Export Banned; 1872 Mining Law Repealed; Recycling & Innovation Promoted
Under the 1872 Mining Law “mining companies–many of them foreign-owned–have taken over $300 billion worth of valuable metals from public …
Bears Ears National Monument Undermines Unofficial Nuclear Waste Dump-Uranium Mining: Owner Energy Fuels Lobbied Trump Admin Against Bears Ears
Canadian Company Energy Fuels’ interest in stopping Bears Ears National Monument may not be the front end of the nuclear …
Tribal Leaders-Bears Ears Commission Of Tribes Indignant Over Trump’s Proposal To Destroy Bears Ears National Monument Leaving It Vulnerable To Looting; Grave Robbing; Fossil Fuel And Uranium Exploitation
“We’ll tell the next generation, ‘You see that ash pit over there, that’s where Bears Ears was. Now it’s a …
US Senator Udall: Trump Attack On Bear Ears, Grand Staircase Is An Assault On Public Lands; Deeply Insulting To Native American Tribes; Opens Areas Up To Fossil Fuel (And Uranium) Exploitation
“The Grand Staircase-Escalante contains dinosaur fossils found nowhere else in the world. Since its designation, 21 new dinosaur species have …
Louisiana River Bend Nuclear Environmental/Socio-Economic Impacts Scoping Comment Deadline Tonight at 10:59 PM CDT
Impact Scoping Comment Deadline Monday Night, 10.59 Central Daylight Time: “River Bend Station, Unit 1; Intent to Conduct Scoping Process …
DAPL Owner Energy Transfer Partners Uses Trump Go-To Lawyers at Kasowitz Law Firm To File Another SLAPP Lawsuit Against Greenpeace; Earth First; BankTrack and 20 Unnamed Parties
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Archambault Addresses UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, 20 Sept 2016: 2 min video of …
Trump Defends Confederate Statues Even Though His Ancestors Were In Europe During the US Civil War; Contrast To US Senator McCain Whose Ancestors Fought For the Confederacy
Hungary chose to send their old communist statues to an outdoor museum. Memento Park, Taken on February 8, 2012 by …
My Heart Faileth When I Behold Radioactive Rainbows In The Sky
A UK so-called planning firm “One Creative Environments” has proposed the most bizarrely stupid idea for “beautifying” the proposed Westinghouse-Toshiba …
US Lawmakers From New Mexico Urge Protection of National Monuments On Trump Chopping Block: Comment Deadline July 10th
There are 27 US National Monuments put on the chopping block by Trump, presumably to hand over to oil and …
US Senator Tom Udall Calls TrumpCare ‘Catastrophic’ for Indian Country
Press Release from the Office,of Senator Tom Udall: “Udall Calls TrumpCare ‘Catastrophic’ for Indian Country JUNE 23, 2017 WASHINGTON — …
US Court Rules Trump Administration Violated the Law By Shortcutting Environmental Review of Dakota Access Pipeline; More Environmental Analysis Required
Oil Pipeline spill in a residential area of Mayflower AR (US EPA photo of Exxon Mobil oil spill) See photos …
Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition Condemns Trump-Zinke Recommendation to Eviscerate Bear Ears National Monument; Other National Monuments on the Chopping Block Too
Zinke’s recommendation is at Trump’s behest: “Presidential Executive Order on the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act, EXECUTIVE ORDER“, …
Why Special Interests Want Bears Ears National Monument Gone: Uranium, Oil and Gas
The comment deadline for “Review of Certain National Monuments Established Since 1996; Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment” is July …
Original Inhabitants of US West: Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Letter re Trump Executive Order Directing Revue of National Monuments
Ryan Zinke-Trump administration are so disrespectful that they didn’t bother to answer a letter written by the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal …
Collusion Between Local, State, Federal Police; ETP Pipeline Co and TigerSwan Defense Contractor Against DAPL Pipeline Opponents – Documents Leak
Related Background: “Jeremy Scahill: TigerSwan Security, Linked to Blackwater, Now Coordinates Intel for Dakota Access” November 21, 2016, https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/21/jeremy_scahill_tigerswan_security_linked_to In …
American Ancestry 101 for Donald Trump and Other Recent Arrivals to the USA
Donald Trump, whose mother immigrated to America from the UK in 1930, hundreds of years after US Senator Elizabeth Warren’s …
Trump’s Executive Order Spree Explained: From Monuments to Oil Spills
Deepwater Horizon Response, 100727-G-9091S-43, USCG Photo by Dave Silva. cleaning tar balls in Florida, Pensacola, FL Dr. Brian Stacy, NOAA …
Tipi Outside Trump Hotel in DC: Thousands March for Native Nations ‘Standing Rock was Just the Beginning’
From Common Dreams: “We Exist, We Resist, We Rise’: Thousands March for Native Nations ‘Standing Rock was just the beginning’ …
DAPL: Navajo Water Protector Shot in Eye By Police Near Standing Rock Tells What Happened
Water Protector tells about being shot in the eye near Standing Rock. The shot is believed to have been fired …
DAPL: Judge Boasberg Rejects Sioux Injunction Request; Tipis Arrive On the National Mall in DC
From Common Dreams: “Sioux Vow to ‘Stand Strong’ as Judge Paves Way for DAPL Oil to Flow DAPL may be …
Trump Allows Oil, Gas, and Coal Companies to Cheat Americans out of Royalties – At Least Pending Litigation (Gold, Uranium and Other Hardrock Miner’s Don’t Pay Royalties for their Thefts from Public Lands)
News release from the Sierra Club: “TRUMP ENDS RULE BLOCKING CORPORATE POLLUTERS FROM PAYING THEMSELVES Interior Rule Prevented Fossil Fuel …
President Trump Lies About Working with Tribes on DAPL (Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Frazier)
Spicer statement http://youtu.be/5-AF8BOzkhM News Release from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe: “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Trump Lies About Working with …
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Responds to White House Press Sec Spicer’s “Absolutely False” Statements re Contact with Tribe
Link: http://youtu.be/5-AF8BOzkhM As explained in the News Release below, the Dakota Access pipeline easement was issued while the Standing Rock …
American Indian with Hands Up Tasered for No Reason in the Standing Rock Prairie Knights Casino Hotel; Pipeline Protesters-Reporters who Peacefully Evacuated Camp Victimized at the Casino Hotel
“If we were going to see this at the casino we should have stayed at the camp. We should have …
Police Use Numbers and Brute Force Against Individuals at North Dakota Standing Rock Camp, Injuring Them; Why Did Gov Scott Walker Send Wisconsin Troops as Backup?
Clearly these thugs, half in riot gear with helmets, are not trained in policing but rather seem think it’s a …
No Dakota Access Pipeline Camp Militarized Eviction Livecam: Trump Follows in Family Tradition of Exploitation
https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/7046188 Screen capture from livestream.
Senate, House Natural Resource Leaders Blast Arbitrary and Capricious Dakota Access Pipeline Decision in Letter to Trump; Stand up for Tribal Sovereignty and Treaty Rights
If Energy Access Partners CEO Kelcy Warren was able to buy this executive order from Trump for a little over …
Standing Rock Sioux Denounce Army Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline, Vows Court Challenge
“Standing Rock denounces Army easement announcement, vows court challenge Posted on February 7, 2017. Filed to: News, Press Releases Cannon …
Why Should the US Solve Australia’s Offshore Refugee Problem? Why Does Australia Have Lots of Room for People from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc., but None for these Refugees?
It remains unclear why Australia doesn’t want to accept the refugees that it has left offshore on the islands of …
Trump Still Considering Swapping Central American Refugees (in Costa Rica) to Australia in Exchange for Middle Easterners Detained by Australia! Not a Joke!
A Trump spokesperson said on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters, that the U.S. will still take the over 1,000 Middle …
First Nations Women Stake Mining Claim on Minister Bill Bennett’s Property (British Columbia, Canada)
Via Mining Watch Canada: “Friends of MiningWatch 24 January 2017, 1.40 pm EST First Nations Women Stake Mining Claim on …
Trump Executive Order on Dakota Access (Bakken) Pipeline Violates Law and Tribal Treaties (But ETP Stock Value Up 4.31 % Today with Trading Increased!)
To know what’s going on in a timely manner apparently one must look at Donald Trump’s personal tweets. Is this …
The Cherokee Nation Is Entitled to a Delegate in Congress. But Will They Finally Send One? And the Choctaw too?
Via Yes! Magazine: “The Cherokee Nation Is Entitled to a Delegate in Congress. But Will They Finally Send One? To …
Bears Ears Monument Partial Win: Is Canadian Energy Fuels Uranium Mine Included or Excluded?
Note that the original Intertribal Coalition proposal for the Bears Ears Monument is to the far right. The BLM probably …
Trump Advisors want to Privatize American Indian Reservations for More Easy Access to Mineral Resources (Oil and Gas; Coal; Uranium, etc.)
Most American Indian Land was already “privatized”, over the course of hundreds of years, though the US government retained many …
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Responds to ND Gov Mandatory Evacuation Order and Calls on US Army Corps to Reaffirm No Forcible Removal Position
“Press Release: Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman responds to Governor’s executive order Posted on November 28, 2016. Chairman called on …
The Louisiana Houma Nation Still Struggles for Federal Recognition; Endangered by the Oil Industry: Wetlands Loss, Coastal Erosion, Pollution
Via BridgetheGulfProject.org: “Our fight for recognition posted by Adam Crepelle Nov 18 2011 A citizen of the United Houma Nation …
The US to Swap Indigenous Peoples of the Americas to Australia in Exchange for Middle East Muslims? Not a Joke! It’s in Reuters
The US promised Australia that they would take a bunch of Middle Eastern refugees-migrants that are trying to enter Australia …
Mormon Militia Extremists Found Not Guilty After Armed Takeover of Wildlife Refuge; Unarmed American Indians are Brutalized and Arrested for Protecting Water and Sacred Lands
“Indigenous activists pointed out that the militia in Oregon didn’t only threaten public officials and the wildlife refuge during their …
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair: DOJ Must Investigate Use of Force Against #DAPL (Dakota Access-Bakken Pipeline) Resistance; Maybe UN Needed
From DemocracyNow.org: “Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair: DOJ Must Investigate Use of Force Against #DAPL Resistance OCTOBER 28, 2016 (link: …
Standing Rock: Police Arrest 120+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access (Energy Transfer Partners) Speeds Up Pipeline Construction
From DemocracyNow.org “Standing Rock: Police Arrest 120+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access Speeds Up Pipeline Construction OCTOBER 24, 2016 We …
Amy Goodman Speaks After North Dakota Judge Dismisses “Riot” Charges for Covering Pipeline Protest
By Democracynow.org: “VIDEO: Amy Goodman Speaks After ND Judge Dismisses “Riot” Charges for Covering Pipeline Protest OCTOBER 17, 2016 2016 …
Activists Shut Down Canada to US Tar Sands Pipeline in Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux; Arrested
“This morning five activists halted tar sands oil flowing across the Canada-US border by shutting down pipelines in Washington, Montana, …
