Now -- Wowaglake MMIW and MMIP 2024 Conference Rapid City, South Dakota

Wowaglake MMIW and MMIP 2024 Conference co-hosted by Oglala and Rosebud Lakota Nations, today in Rapid City, South Dakota

Warriors for a New Generation: Indigenous Youths at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Morgan Brings Plenty, Cheyenne River Lakota. Screenshot by Censored News.

Warriors for a New Generation: Indigenous Youths at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 17, 2024

NEW YORK -- Indigenous youths from around the world challenged corporations and institutions -- rising as warriors, defenders and changemakers that are honoring Mother Earth and protecting future generations, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Tuesday, the second day of the two week forum.

Energy Transfer's lawsuit against Greenpeace is an attempt to silence the voices for Mother Earth, and Indigenous who are battling the Dakota Access Pipeline, said Morgan Brings Plenty, Cheyenne River Lakota, speaking at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Indigenous Women Upholding Indigenous Rights and Leading Climate Solutions

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', human rights lawyer and founder of Divest Invest Protect, speaks during today's panels.

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Indigenous Women Upholding Indigenous Rights and Leading Climate Solutions

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News
April 17, 2024

NEW YORK -- Indigenous women around the world are battling fossil fuels, mining, exploitation and oppression. The abuse of Mother Earth is directly connected to the violence against Indigenous women.

Women's Earth and Climate Action Networks International hosted Indigenous women on panels during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Wednesday.

Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN executive director, opened the session calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the oppression, and return of the hostages.

"The killing must be stopped now," she said.

Indigenous women speak on the struggles, the battle to halt the Mountain Valley  pipeline and protect their burial places and water in Appalachia, Anishinaabes' protection of the water and animals around the Great Lakes, the battle against mining in Peru, and the need of Indigenous in Brazil for food and water. 

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', human rights lawyer and founder of Divest Invest Protect, speaks during today's panels, held during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. Dr. Cook spoke on a just transition and the fact that critical minerals are located on Indigenous lands.

Women continue to be affected by the onslaught of colonization and invasion, she said. Credit Suisse, one of the funders of the Dakota Access Pipeline, collapsed last year. This battle for divestment was a reason she led Indigenous women on delegations to Europe and the United Nations, and met with banking and financing executives. Dr. Cook spoke of the need for healing and love, and the better treatment of women.

Speaking on the battle to stop the stop the Mountain Valley gas pipeline in North Carolina and Appalachia, Dr. Crystal A Cavalier said, "It is a pipeline to nowhere."

Dr. Cavalier, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, said the pipeline is going through her peoples burial places. She is co-founder of 7 Directions of Service, Turtle Island.

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WECAN International said:

Indigenous women leaders fighting for healthy and thriving ecosystems and communities for all generations are a solution to interlocking crises.

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 denied an injunction to stop work on the SunZia transmission line. 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.

Indigenous Youths Lead at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York

Anpo Jensen, Kiyuksa Tiospaye, Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, delivered the statement of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Oglala Lakota Youth and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus Lead at United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 15, 2024

NEW YORK -- "We are witnessing the genocide and displacement of Palestinian people. We demand the right of return to their ancestral homeland," the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus told the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as it opened its session on Monday.

Representing the seven regions of the world, the youths expressed gratitude to their elders for their defense of ancestral homelands, and recognized the role of forced removal of Indigenous children from their families, in disregard for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.