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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">U.S. and Canada Among Top Violators of Indigenous Rights: Mining, Militarization and Boarding Schools</h1>
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<br><table class="gmail-moz-reader-wide-table"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdAwp-I8yVJP3Ahjus1JFvkbGUnDVm0HJ_kw6c9f06CLEpWVlrAnFwjtNiXLs86HZ6VR-UpPoWOMl3ZlpTgmtql9hfj60KCKKTxMvKNN8uOvziQGim-fzBuqL1gp_hpmTS8bLB4eLLD_7JNbmRLH5zHyNAveO8OTE9joO6SXlgJeXqNovZJnRK_lhmqQm/s640/fukqh2baeaaaqke__1_.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdAwp-I8yVJP3Ahjus1JFvkbGUnDVm0HJ_kw6c9f06CLEpWVlrAnFwjtNiXLs86HZ6VR-UpPoWOMl3ZlpTgmtql9hfj60KCKKTxMvKNN8uOvziQGim-fzBuqL1gp_hpmTS8bLB4eLLD_7JNbmRLH5zHyNAveO8OTE9joO6SXlgJeXqNovZJnRK_lhmqQm/w640-h360/fukqh2baeaaaqke__1_.jpeg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="410" height="231"></a></td></tr><tr><td><font size="1">Paiute
Shoshone elders and mothers defending the unmarked burial place of
Paiutes massacred here, are now being sued by Lithium Americas of
Canada.</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span>By Brenda Norrell, </span><span>Censored News, August 1, 2023</span></p><div><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p></div><p><a name="more"></a><br><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><table class="gmail-moz-reader-wide-table"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMLtbz1e1hY16niAeUck8weg9otoUE5TA-ql2gzI0-YTFq5lKi88Vus9bRS-Tu2ijybiU1oD8u_1bf5sZR9YnLbcgR0nUyjUY_USm1gbYRdGN4K5m-P8QUvHBSVGF_Vvfk8FIKbVnxBBOdJubgwC33lJEXJzQmJ4zjmmE6pYgpOLyBu2KchVEGGeluCXZC/s564/Screenshot%202023-07-19%208.00.13%20AM.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMLtbz1e1hY16niAeUck8weg9otoUE5TA-ql2gzI0-YTFq5lKi88Vus9bRS-Tu2ijybiU1oD8u_1bf5sZR9YnLbcgR0nUyjUY_USm1gbYRdGN4K5m-P8QUvHBSVGF_Vvfk8FIKbVnxBBOdJubgwC33lJEXJzQmJ4zjmmE6pYgpOLyBu2KchVEGGeluCXZC/w400-h213/Screenshot%202023-07-19%208.00.13%20AM.png" width="400" height="213"></a></td></tr><tr><td><span><font size="1">Wakinyan LaPointe addressing United Nations on July 19, 2023</font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span>"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.</span></p><p><span>"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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><table class="gmail-moz-reader-wide-table"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_j4tcrbpMFNZ7YZwMk0p5Y11iKc_dfLBQY-1WbkQwSfUS383lt9FZbRBMBIWEMLSNhy6CeC4tuprSrQZyC8JrKto9YKoF9ZKem8ee9u9o7hPvDKTA-HE1XdotSAayMx1yQCoNtZb6huB4nxpfjyt1G3IPuCQ0OcnF_PXo_QfZiHTnYz2OJcHXB7PwxzV/s1024/Geneva-Switzerland-COLT-8798-L-1024x768.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_j4tcrbpMFNZ7YZwMk0p5Y11iKc_dfLBQY-1WbkQwSfUS383lt9FZbRBMBIWEMLSNhy6CeC4tuprSrQZyC8JrKto9YKoF9ZKem8ee9u9o7hPvDKTA-HE1XdotSAayMx1yQCoNtZb6huB4nxpfjyt1G3IPuCQ0OcnF_PXo_QfZiHTnYz2OJcHXB7PwxzV/w640-h480/Geneva-Switzerland-COLT-8798-L-1024x768.jpeg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="410" height="308"></a></td></tr><tr><td><font size="1">Lisa White Pipe, Sicangu Lakota, addressing UN Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span>"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."</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>The oppression of the
United States military was described by Chagossians who were driven from
their homeland island in the Indian Ocean.</span></p><p><span>"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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>The
deadliest countries for human rights defenders are Honduras, Peru,
Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Philippines and Colombia, reports the
Indigenous Peoples Rights International.</span><br><span><br>Mining and
agribusiness are most frequently linked with the attacks and the United
States and Canada are among the top countries responsible.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><div><table class="gmail-moz-reader-wide-table"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWDgkR2JQmg6j2rXUtVvS9KIpJpRHo6_X5g6g1Ozaa1LK9tFvT104bsaJv_L7PK_5ujnRaM1xvJAKNlhgUiq0pIsAmJvfFuk4vMmfuNZFyQiIuxqkrBTJS80Z_ZreN_rQXmx9zHpXlMAj8vcHPlX7Hrt5qJbxkPZVvFfSoIzcguK16bHoBWtMTRhY0oVi/s899/364037927_748038007326757_2958610879830671455_n.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWDgkR2JQmg6j2rXUtVvS9KIpJpRHo6_X5g6g1Ozaa1LK9tFvT104bsaJv_L7PK_5ujnRaM1xvJAKNlhgUiq0pIsAmJvfFuk4vMmfuNZFyQiIuxqkrBTJS80Z_ZreN_rQXmx9zHpXlMAj8vcHPlX7Hrt5qJbxkPZVvFfSoIzcguK16bHoBWtMTRhY0oVi/w640-h428/364037927_748038007326757_2958610879830671455_n.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="410" height="274"></a></td></tr><tr><td><font size="1">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.</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i><br><span>Read more at Censored
News original series: UN testimony in Geneva: Expert Mechanism on
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, July 17 -- 22, 2023</span></i></p><p><span>Part I: Lakota, Eyak -- U.N. Hears of Devastation for Indigenous Peoples, and Stories of Hope</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-hears-of-devastation-for.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-hears-of-devastation-for.html</a><span></span></p><p><span>Part
II: Peru, Tohono O'odham Russia --Impact of Militarization on
Indigenous Peoples: Murder with Impunity from Peru to the Tohono O'odham
Nation</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html</a><span></span></p><p><span>Part III Defending Sacred Places and Sacred Rights at the United Nations</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/defending-sacred-places-and-sacred.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/defending-sacred-places-and-sacred.html</a><span></span></p><p><span>Russia's Indigenous share common battle with Paiute Shoshone: Battling disastrous fake green mining for electric car batteries</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/russias-indigenous-share-struggle-with.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/russias-indigenous-share-struggle-with.html</a><span></span></p><p><span>Philippines labels defenders terrorists to silence them</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/philippines-labeling-indigenous.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/philippines-labeling-indigenous.html</a><span></span></p><p><span>United Nations: Black Hills is under threat by mining, water is the defining issue</span><br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-black-hills-under-threat.html" rel="nofollow">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/united-nations-black-hills-under-threat.html</a><span></span></p><p><span><span>Mohawk Nation News: McGill security mama tries to attack Mohawk mothers, monitoring CIA torture </span>site in Montreal, Canada, for unmarked graves</span></p><div><p><span><b>About the author</b></span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>Copyright Censored News</span></p></div></div>
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