Land Rights

Sapotaweyak Cree Nation Sets Up Blockade

January 27, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, First Nations, Land Rights, Law

Members of a western Manitoba aboriginal community are peacefully protesting work on the Bipole III hydroelectric line, a project that requires the construction of a transmission line, two new converter stations and two ground electrodes for those stations.Screen Shot 2015-01-26 at 6.16.34 PM That construction will involve clear-cutting trees near Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, located north of Swan River in central Manitoba. Chief Nelson Genaille says the project will destroy their livelihood and way of life. "They use the land as they did before. Living off the land with the animals. You know using the medicines from natural Mother Earth. And even the water systems. All of that habitat is going to be impacted."

Join The Movement To Protect Earth: This Is Why We Fight

January 21, 2015 Dallas Goldtooth, www.theguardian.com Strategize! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

The Oceti Sakowin, the traditional name for my Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples, are rising up to protect Mother Earth. We are mobilizing a resistance that could prove to be the game changer in the fight to stop the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and help shut down the tar sand projects in northern Alberta. Our resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline and other tar sand infrastructure is grounded in our inherent right to self-determination as indigenous peoples. As the original caretakers, we know what it will take to ensure these lands are available for generations to come. This pipeline will leak, it will contaminate the water. It will encourage greater tar sands development, which, in turn, will increase carbon emissions.

Blockade Planned For Port Metro Vancouver

January 21, 2015 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Land Rights

To answer the callout to #ShutDownCanada on Friday February 13th a collective of individuals have decided to to blockade Port Metro Vancouver. We will gather at 10:00 AM at the corner of Clark Dr. & E. Hastings to rally in support of individuals who choose to put their bodies on the line in the name of justice. We are calling on all supporters to join us and cheer them on while we together with communities across the nation#ShutDownCanada. We are inviting everyone to stand with us in solidarity on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) land. nə́c̓amət tə šxʷqʷeləwən ct. We are of one heart and mind.

Bold Nebraska Promises To Fight Trans Canada Eminent Domain

January 21, 2015 Mark Hefflinger, www.boldnebraska.org Resist! Energy, Land Rights, Nebraska, Oil & Gas

On the same day a Montana community is trucking in clean drinking water after a pipeline leak spilled tens of thousands of gallons of oil into their water supply, Canadian oil company TransCanada has served Nebraska families with eminent domain papers to take their land and put Nebraska’s water supply at risk of even worse tar sands spills with the construction of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Eminent domain was never intended to be used for private gain, yet that is what Nebraska lawmakers are letting TransCanada do to landowners today. Nebraska’s eminent domain law sides with oil companies over the farmers and ranchers who are the backbone of our state’s economy.

Murder In The Rainforest

December 20, 2014 Alexander Zaitchik, www.rollingstone.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

This jungle violence isn't just a human tragedy or a local environmental story — it is global climate politics. The first days of the Lima summit — known as COP 20, for the twentieth session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change — saw the publication of data that quantifies, for the first time, the exact size of the climate impact made by indigenous populations as front-line guardians of imperiled rainforests. The size of this impact, a kind of negative carbon footprint, is staggering. Nowhere is this more true than in the Amazon that begins just over the mountains from the just-concluded negotiations. Along with land titles and the freedom to be left alone, many indigenous activists want something more from the consumer society that feeds on its trees and minerals.

Farmworker Defeats US Mining Company

December 20, 2014 Telesur TV, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Land Rights, Law, Peru

Maxima Acuña, a farmworker from Cajamarca, has won a legal case against the U.S. based Newmont Mining Corporation. Newmont is known in Peru by the name of its operations in the area, Yanacocha. The company sued Maxima for alleged land invasion in an attempt to expel her and her family from her property. Yanacocha wanted her land in order to pursue their massive gold mining project, known as Conga. Nevertheless, the Appeals Court of Justice of Cajamarca ruled in favor of Maxima, thus absolving her from the lawsuit. Maxima built her home in 1994 on property she had purchased in front of the Blue Lagoon of Celendin. In 2011, Yanacocha attempted to buy the land, but Maxima did not give in. The company is interested in her land because it is strategically located in front of the lake. The lake’s water is necessary for the mining operations.

Nicaragua: A Canal At What Cost?

December 17, 2014 Chris Hartmann, www.fpif.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Nicaragua

What does a canal have to do with human rights? Plenty, according to the thousands of Nicaraguan protesters who filled Managua’s streetson December 10, International Human Rights Day. With banners, flags, chants, and a petition submitted to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, they came out in opposition to a proposed canal that would pass through Nicaragua, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. No doubt, the canal would increase Nicaragua’s economic importance in the region, bring in much needed income, and generate jobs. But those benefits come at steep costs: The canal is expected to devastate the environment. Moreover, it would displace indigenous communities and hurt some of the nation’s most marginalized peoples.

Black Mesa Communities Continue Stand Against Mine Expansion

December 16, 2014 Liza Minna Bloom, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Wars and Militarism

This October, as many Americans returned to work after their Columbus Day holiday, rural Dineh, or Navajo, communities in the Black Mesa region of Northeastern Arizona were rocked by an invasion. SWAT teams descended upon this remote region, navigating unpaved, washed out roads, while drones and armed helicopters flew overhead. For nearly two months, Hopi Rangers, with the backing of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, and the Department of the Interior, have been impounding the livestock of the Dineh residents of the area now known as the “Hopi Partition Lands,” or HPL. The official justification given is that residents’ herds exceed the size allowed to them in permits, and that they are, therefore, overgrazing and causing harm to the land in a period of prolonged drought.

Cree Youth Walk 850 Km To Protest Uranium Mining In Quebec

December 15, 2014 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

About 20 young Cree people have walked nearly 850 kilometres to Montreal’s South Shore from their village in northern Quebec, protesting against uranium exploration in the province. The youth left Mistissini, Que., northeast of Chibougamau in the James Bay region three weeks ago. On the way, they stopped in Quebec City to share their message. They arrived in Longueuil, just across the bridge from Montreal, Saturday. Their final destination is downtown Montreal, where they will deliver that message to the province’s environmental protection agency, known as the BAPE, when it holds the last of a series of public hearings on uranium exploration tomorrow.

What Resolution Copper Wants To Inflict On Apache Sacred Land

December 13, 2014 Indian Country Today Media Network, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! Energy, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

The San Carlos Apache Tribe is battling to save a sacred site that has been federally protected from mining since 1955. That is, until now. Lawmakers have slipped a clause into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would allow for a land swap, giving Resolution Copper Inc. 2,400 acres of copper-containing land in return for 5,300 acres of substandard land scattered throughout southeast Arizona. Problem is, it lies right on a scenic—and did we mention sacred?—recreation area set aside by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who specified that it be protected from mining: Oak Flat, Devil's Canyon, and Apache Leap. It is not only sacred to the San Carlos Apaches and related tribes but also would be subject to a technique called block cave mining.

DOJ To Allow Native Americans To Grow, Sell Marijuana

December 13, 2014 Timothy Phelps, www.thestar.com Educate! indigenous, Land Rights, Law, Marijuana

Opening the door for what could be a lucrative and controversial new industry on some native American reservations, the Justice Department on Thursday will tell U.S. attorneys to not prevent tribes from growing or selling marijuana on the sovereign lands, even in states that ban the practice. The new guidance, released in a memorandum, will be implemented on a case-by-case basis and tribes must still follow federal guidelines, said Timothy Purdon, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Subcommittee on native American Issues. It remains to be seen how many reservations will take advantage of the policy. Many tribes are opposed to legalizing pot on their lands, and federal officials will continue to enforce the law in those areas, if requested.

Arizona Defenders Face Land Grab By Foreign Mining Companies

December 11, 2014 Tracy Barnett, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

Apache leaders and concerned citizens from Superior, Ariz., including a strong contingent of former miners, met on Sunday with touring members of the Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians film crew on the sacred ground near Superior, Arizona, where Rio Tinto and other foreign mining companies are planning a takeover of public lands for the installation of a massive copper mine. Congress is set to approve the giveaway of 2,400 acres of National Forest lands, including the burial, ceremonial and medicinal lands of the San Carlos Apaches, to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of British-Australian Rio Tinto Mining Corp., a company with a long history of environmental and human rights abuses in developing countries.

Congress Gives Native American Lands To Foreign Mining Company

December 11, 2014 RT, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law

This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China. The “Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015” - named after the retiring chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services panels – includes the giveaway of Apache burial, medicinal, and ceremonial grounds currently within the bounds of Tonto. News of the land provision was kept under wraps until late Tuesday, when the bill was finally posted online.

Peru-Brazil Indigenous People To Fight Amazon Oil Exploration

December 11, 2014 David Hill, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Oil & Gas

Peru – host of the COP20 UN climate conference now under way in Lima – is facing rebellion by a 3,500 strong indigenous people deep in the Amazon committed to fighting oil exploration in their forest territory, writes David Hill, following the government’s failure to consult Matsés communities or respect their rights. We don’t want the oil company. If they don’t listen to us, if they don’t understand our no means no, there’ll be conflict that’ll lead to people being killed. Members of an indigenous people living on both sides of the Brazil-Peru border in the remote Amazon say they are prepared to fight with spears, bows and arrows if companies enter their territories to explore for oil.

First Nation Files Land Claim To Stanley Park And Gulf Islands

December 11, 2014 Amy Judd, www.globalnews.ca Resist! First Nations, Land Rights, Law

A B.C. First Nation is taking the federal and provincial governments to court for two billion dollars and a massive land claim. They say more than 100 years ago they lost their land when it was shelled by a Royal Navy gunboat. “When you look at our history and genealogy you will see that we’ve always been here and did not, as Canada would suggest, simply fall out of the sky one day in the last 10 or 15 years,” said Hwlitsum chief Raymond (Rocky) Wilson. “Our serious dispute is not with private land owners or other First Nations, but with the Crown, Canada and the province, in this case British Columbia, who have consistently hidden their heads in the sand and ignored what we have to say.”

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