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April 17, 2024
Warriors for a New Generation: Indigenous Youths at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
April 16, 2024
Federal Judge Denies Restraining Order Filed Against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland by Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations
Construction equipment at the site of work in the San Pedro Valley for the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project is shown on Oct. 29. Alex Binford-Walsh of Archaeology Southwest
Breaking News: Federal Judge Denies Restraining Order Filed Against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 17, 2024
TUCSON -- A federal judge in Tucson denied a restraining order sought against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland by the Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations. Haaland is pushing another fake "green energy" project, and bulldozers are ripping through ancient sites, ceremonial places, and medicine gathering places, for transmission lines to take wind energy from New Mexico to California.
Federal Judge Jennifer Zipps ruled on Tuesday that the tribes and others filing the lawsuit waited too long to file, and the Interior and BLM had fulfilled their obligations to prepare inventory and identify cultural resources.
April 15, 2024
Indigenous Youths Lead at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
Global Indigenous Youth Caucus at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday. The session is underway, April 15 -- 26, 2024. Screenshot by Censored News. |
Apache Stronghold: Rare Request Gives Federal Court One More Chance to Protect Sacred Site
Protect Oak Flat photo by Steve Pavey |
Rare request gives Ninth Circuit one more chance to protect sacred site before Supreme Court appeal
By Becket Law, Apache Stronghold, Censored News, April 15, 2024
WASHINGTON – A coalition of Western Apaches and allies today asked all 29 judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat from destruction by a mining project. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a special “en banc” panel of eleven judges split 6-5 earlier this year, refusing to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn Oak Flat into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. (Watch this short video to learn more).
Interior Sec Haaland, Praising Biden, Cut Off Like Everyone Else, at UN Indigenous Forum
Interior Sec Haaland, Praising Biden, Cut Off Like Everyone Else, at Indigenous Forum
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 15, 2024
Interior Sec. Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, used her time at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to cheerlead for President Biden, but like everyone else she was cut off at the three minute mark.