[News] U.S. and Canada Among Top Violators of Indigenous Rights: Mining, Militarization and Boarding Schools

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U.S. and Canada Among Top Violators of Indigenous Rights: Mining,
Militarization and Boarding Schools
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Paiute Shoshone elders and mothers defending the unmarked burial place of
Paiutes massacred here, are now being sued by Lithium Americas of Canada.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 1, 2023

GENEVA -- The United States and Canada are among the top countries
violating the human rights of Indigenous Peoples, with mining companies
based in the U.S. and Canada linked to assassinations of Native people
around the world, Indigenous told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The United States is responsible for accelerating the crimes against
humanity with its endless war, resulting in the deaths of millions of
innocent people, which benefits its war manufacturers.

Canada's long history of abuse of Native people includes the mandate for
churches to seize Native children from their families and institutionalize
them in residential schools, resulting in abuse, torture and murder, and
generations of trauma. The Pope confirmed the Catholic Church was
responsible for the genocide of Native people in 2022. Currently, Mohawk
Mothers in Montreal are monitoring the search for graves at McGill
University, the site of a CIA torture site.


During the testimony before the United Nations in Geneva in July Indigenous
from Peru said they are being shot by the army from helicopters, under
orders from the president, as they march to protect their land from illegal
mining and logging. The United States deployed soldiers to support the coup
and to be used against the movement being led by Indigenous women.

Currently in the United States, Native lands are under attack by mining
companies, in the fake green campaign of mining lithium for electric car
batteries. The Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada is being dug into by
the foreign company Lithium Americas of Canada, violating all federal laws
that protect Native American burial and religious sites; endangered and
protected species and groundwater. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said she
supports the lithium mine now destroying the unmarked burials of Paiute
massacred at Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass.

The sacred Black Hills are under threat from mining companies, threatening
the water sources, Wakinyan LaPointe, Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, South
Dakota, representing AIM West, told the United Nations.
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Wakinyan LaPointe addressing United Nations on July 19, 2023

"Our sacred Black Hills are under threat of destruction by multinational
mining corporations and lack of state preventative measures," LaPointe told
the United Nations EMRIP, which reports to the UN Human Rights Council.

"There is no greater offender of tribal rights than the U.S. Justice
Department," said Lisa White Pipe, Lakota, Sicangu Rosebud council member,
representing the Coalition of Large Tribes, chaired by the Blackfeet Nation.

White Pipe said the U.S. government fails to abide by the Treaties and
protect Native people. Technical assistance is needed for healing from
assimilation and boarding schools, and more resources are needed for
reconciliation and public safety.

White Pipe said the US must return lands seized for boarding schools,
including the land used for the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in South
Dakota.
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Lisa White Pipe, Sicangu Lakota, addressing UN Expert Mechanism on Rights
of Indigenous Peoples.

"The United States has failed to address the mass dispossession of Indians
of our lands occasioned by the Indian Boarding Schools Policy even though
there are federal laws on the books that require reversion of those lands.
The Rapid City Indian Boarding School is an example among the hundreds the
US-funded and sanctioned. We call on the United States to make these land
returns now."

The Biden administration has now joined the foreign mining company Rio
Tinto and is fighting the Apache Stronghold in federal court. Rio Tinto
plans a devastating copper mine on the Apaches ceremonial place at Oak
Flat. The waste dump would be nearby on an ancestral O'odham village. Rio
Tinto -- which blew up 46,000 years of sacred Aboriginal teachings in
Australia -- was forced to admit widespread rapes at its mines in Australia
and South Africa.

The oppression of the United States military was described by Chagossians
who were driven from their homeland island in the Indian Ocean.

"Now we live a life that is not ours," Bernadette Dugasse, Chagossian, told
the United Nations. Dugasse's people lived a life of poetry and song before
their island was seized for a United States military base, with the help of
the U.K.

A representative of AIM West described the militarization of the US-Mexico
border, pointing out the violence carried out by local, state, and federal
law enforcement, including kidnappings and murders.

Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, was shot nine times by U.S. Border Patrol
agents, and died a few feet from his front door. Indigenous children are
dying in U.S. Border Patrol custody.

The United States government's surveillance towers are also increasing on
the U.S.-Mexico border, he said, referring to the integrated fixed towers
constructed by Israel's Elbit Systems, including 11 towers on the Tohono
O'odham Nation. The Israeli towers provide live surveillance to the U.S.
Border Patrol.

The deadliest countries for human rights defenders are Honduras, Peru,
Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Philippines and Colombia, reports the Indigenous
Peoples Rights International.

Mining and agribusiness are most frequently linked with the attacks and the
United States and Canada are among the top countries responsible.

The majority of the companies linked to human rights violations and
assassinations of Indigenous Peoples globally are based in Honduras,
Guatemala, Canada, USA, Mexico and China, in that order, IPRI said in its
documentation presented to the United Nations.
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Indigenous women leading the march to protect the earth, and their
homelands from illegal mining and logging, are savagely attacked by
militarized forces in Puno, Peru. The US is deploying US soldiers to back
the coup, and will be used against Indigenous Peoples. Photo courtesy
Voices in Movement.


*Read more at Censored News original series: UN testimony in Geneva: Expert
Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, July 17 -- 22, 2023*

Part I: Lakota, Eyak -- U.N. Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples,
and Stories of Hope
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-hears-of-devastation-for.html

Part II: Peru, Tohono O'odham Russia --Impact of Militarization on
Indigenous Peoples: Murder with Impunity from Peru to the Tohono O'odham
Nation
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html

Part III Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/defending-sacred-places-and-sacred.html

Russia's Indigenous share common battle with Paiute Shoshone: Battling
disastrous fake green mining for electric car batteries
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/russias-indigenous-share-struggle-with.html

Philippines labels defenders terrorists to silence them
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/philippines-labeling-indigenous.html

United Nations: Black Hills is under threat by mining, water is the
defining issue
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-black-hills-under-threat.html

Mohawk Nation News: McGill security mama tries to attack Mohawk mothers,
monitoring CIA torture site in Montreal, Canada, for unmarked graves

*About the author*

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 40 years,
beginning at the Navajo Times, during the 18 years that she lived on the
Navajo Nation. Norrell was a correspondent for Associated Press, USA Today,
and Lakota Times. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian
Country Today, she was censored and terminated in 2006. She created
Censored News to expose what was being censored. Today, it is in its 17th
year and is a collective, with more than 22 million pageviews. It has no
ads, salaries or revenues, and is a service to Indigenous Peoples and human
rights.

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