#ToxicAir Resulted in #Cancer for #Navajo, #Apache and #WesternShoshone

#Copper and Gold #Mining, and #Coal-Fired Power Plants, Resulted in Cancer for Navajo, Apache, and Western #Shoshone

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 4, 2023

"A copper smelter poisoning the air of Apaches, the coal-fired power plants on the #NavajoNation, and gold mining on Western Shoshone land, are among the top causes of cancer from #AirPollution in the United States, according to a new report, Poison in the Air, by #ProPublica.

"The #FreeportMcMoran copper smelter in #MiamiArizona -- located between the #SanCarlos #ApacheNation, and Apaches Sacred #OakFlat -- is the third in the United States for producing toxic air pollution causing cancer. The poison air means the central Arizona community of Miami has ten times the EPA's acceptable risk of cancer. Apaches are now in federal court battling both the mining industry, and the #BidenAdministration to stop another #CopperMine nearby at Oak Flat which would destroy their ceremonial place."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/toxic-air-resulted-in-cancer-for-navajo.html

#EnvironmentalRacism #ToxicAir #Mining #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #NativeAmericanNews

HT @gratefuldread

BREAKING! Feds Pause Progress Of Mine That Will Destroy Sacred #Indigenous Site

By Darren Thompson, Native News Online. May 29, 2023

"The federal government has temporarily halted plans to construct a copper mine on sacred Indigenous land in #Arizona known as Oak Flat, citing an error in oral arguments made at a March hearing.

"The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official filed a letter to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, May 18, saying it made an error during oral arguments on March 21 when the 9th Circuit reheard #Apache Stronghold v. United States, a case that encapsulates a nearly decade-long fight to save the land sacred to the #SanCarlosApache Tribe."
#OakFlat #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousNews #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism

Read more: https://popularresistance.org/feds-pause-progress-of-mine-that-will-destroy-sacred-indigenous-site/

Salt River O'odham Protecting O'odham Burial Grounds at #OakFlat

by O'odham Piipaash Alliance, Censored News, May 23, 2023

"Salt River O'odham Marina Thomas' sacred run to Oak Flat brings her to protect historic O'odham burial places, now targeted as a waste dumping site by #ResolutionCopper, which intends to destroy sacred Oak Flat with a copper mine."
#IndigenousNews #CopperMining #CulturalGenocide #ProtectOakFlat
#Mining #EnvironmentalRacism #NativeAmericans #Oodham

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/salt-river-oodham-protecting-oodham.html

World Governments Rattled as Indigenous Expose Atrocities at the United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2023

"Governments from around the world are rushing to defend their #HumanRights records as #IndigenousPeoples describe the atrocities during the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues."

#NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews #Colonialism #War #OakFlat #Russia #ReindeerHerders #CulturalGenocide #Sami #Shoshone #GreenColonialism #Brazil #NewZealand #Australia #UnitedStates #China #Mongolia #Vietnam #SouthAfrica #FirstNations #Genocide #Indonesia #Colombia

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/04/world-governments-rattled-as-indigenous.html

*Allowing a mine at #OakFlat is not responsible stewardship of God’s creation nor is it respectful of the deep spiritual and religious traditions that indigenous peoples have practiced there since time immemorial. Destruction of Oak Flat threatens not only the rights of all land-based religions, but also poses a threat to all religions that find deep connections and memories in these sacred landscapes.*

#ReligiousFreedom for all means sacred #Indigenous sites, too
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3926569-religious-freedom-for-all-means-sacred-indigenous-sites-too/

#Apache Stronghold Defends #OakFlat in Federal Court

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 22, 2023

Pasadena, California - “Apache Wendsler Noise said the arguments heard in the Ninh Circuit Court show the U.S. government’s attempts of erasure, erasure of the people and their connection to the land, erasure of their right to pray in their sacred place at Oak Flat.

“‘This country is a corporate country. It is not even thinking about our children, the earth, the things that give us life,’ Nosie said after Tuesday’s rehearing the federal court case.

“Nosie urged Native people to be part of the spiritual struggle. He said if their leaders only care about money, then they are on the wrong road, the that the spiritual road is the one to be on. He urged tribal leaders to tell the truth.

"'Now we know why Biden hasn’t helped, anybody hasn’t helped, because that is not their priority, of the people.'"

#OakFlat #Mining #IndigenousLand #Arizona #ApacheStronghold #EnvironmentalRacism #NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/03/live-federal-court-case-apache.html

#HouseOfTearsCarvers will bring the pole to #California & #Arizona & #OakFlat site for #prayers on March 24–25. Then to #NewMexico , #Nevada & #Idaho to reach their home at #LummiNation by April 1. The group also #invited interested people to visit them during a #GatheringOfTheEagles - May 21–29 to see #canoe #families pass through #SanJuanIslands & culminate in several days of #celebration at the #Lummi #reservation near #Bellingham
https://theorcasonian.com/lummi-house-of-tears-carvers-visited-orcas-to-help-protect-oak-flat-from-mining/
#PNW #Indigenous #FirstNations #Salish

“The government protects historical churches & other important religious landmarks, & our site deserves no less protection. We are glad the Ninth Circuit is going to take a closer look at this decision, & we hope it will do the right thing and protect #OakFlat” —Wendsler Nosie Sr., founder of the Apache Stronghold https://religionnews.com/2022/11/17/apaches-get-rehearing-in-fight-to-preserve-oak-flat-a-sacred-site-in-arizona/ #SaveOakFlat