Native Americans create authentic websites to counter collapsed media
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 22, 2012 at 1:03 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Native Americans and First Nations -- Mohawk, Navajo, Hopi, O’odham and Lakota -- have created their own news websites, with authentic Native voices and their own photos, videos and articles, to counter the plague of collapsed media.
Indigenous protecting Arctic expose Shell as corporate criminal
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 17, 2012 at 1:49 pmIndigenous launch campaign in London to protect the Arctic and expose Shell as a corporate criminal
Update: Read new report Shell Risking Ruin:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/indigenous-peoples-new-report-shell.html
Arizona book ban leads to new edition of Mohawk poetry book
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 11, 2012 at 10:01 amBy Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- The banning of award-winning Native American authors by Tucson public schools and the State of Arizona, and the forbidding of Mexican American Studies, has led a publisher to release a new edition of a Mohawk's book of poetry.
The magic came in the mail.
Arizona ignored threat of white supremacist border militia
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 7, 2012 at 8:46 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: JT Ready at Occupy Phoenix 2011 (Sara Steffan/Downtown Devil online media)
TUCSON -- Anonymous' Lulzsec hacktivists exposed Arizona police files last summer, revealing white supremacists and border militia were widespread, dangerous and heavily armed in southern Arizona.
Lakota, Navajo, Supai to UN Rapporteur: Halt genocide and eco-cide of the people and earth
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 2, 2012 at 11:59 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo credits: Arizona Forgotten People; South Dakota Vi Waln
Navajo government hires firm to push through theft of Navajo Hopi water rights
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 6:01 pmBy Brenda Norrell
The Navajo Nation has hired an aggressive pro-mining firm to push through the theft of Navajo and Hopi water rights for the benefit of non-Indians and corporations in Arizona. The firm was hired over the protests of the Navajo people. The scheme would rob Navajos and Hopis of water rights to the Little Colorado River.
Collapse of journalism magnified in Tuba City
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 12:03 pmCollapse of journalism magnified in Tuba City
Article by Brenda Norrell
Photo by Outta Your Backpack Media: Navajo police guard politicians in Tuba City, Ariz.
Rights of Mother Earth Gatherings, from Bolivia to Kansas
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 11:06 amRights of Mother Earth Gathering at Haskell continues efforts of Bolivia President Evo Morales in Cochabamba
Article by Brenda Norrell
Photo by Loren White, Jr.
Navajos and Hopis protest Kyl and McCain water theft scheme
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm
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Photo by Outta Your Backpack Media
Media in Indian country responsible for border rights abuses
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 31, 2012 at 2:24 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo of officer approaching to arrest Ofelia Rivas, O'odham human rights activist and founder of O'odham VOICE against the WALL. Photo Ofelia Rivas published with permission.
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