Native America Calling is an award-winning live radio show hosted by Harlan McKosato, Sac and Fox. Recently, NAC hosted a program about the most censored Native American news and newsmakers of 2011. Content assistance came from Brenda Norrell, award-winning journalist of Censored News.
This
Native American Calling
program is archived at the
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Scheduled guests included:
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Debra White Plume White Plume, a Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., fought the Tarsands Keystone XL pipeline. The activist and grandmother was among those arrested at the White House in September. Debra also fights uranium mining on Lakota lands. |
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Benally, Navajo. The protests to protect the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona, and the lockdowns to heavy equipment, were the most accessed articles at Censored News in 2011. Native photographers and Youths of the Peak, provided photos of the lockdowns and protests as those happened. |
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The
Indigenous Environmental
Network. |
More from Censored News:
2011's major Censored News topics and
exposés
Top Censored
News Stories
from 2011
Environmental
Genocide The
Americas' Indigenous
peoples continue to
fight coal-fired
power plants,
uranium mining,
silver and gold
mining, and oil and
gas drilling. Wikaritari
(Huicholes)
battle silver mining
on their sacred
lands in Mexico.On
the Blood Reserve in
Canada, women stood
in front of oil and
gas trucks to stop
the destruction. |
SpyingWikileaks
exposed US spying on
Indigenous Peoples
from Mapuche in
South America to the
Mohawks in Canada.Wikileaks
exposed America's
role in Peru to
promote mining as
Indigenous Peoples
were dying to
protect their lands.
Both
Venezuela's and
Bolivia's presidents
were targets of US
State Department
spying. |
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WaterThroughout
Indian lands, the
battle continues for
clean drinking
water, the
protection of the
aquifers and to halt
the theft of Indian
water rights. |
Traditional ArtsNorthern
Paiute Wesley Dick battled the
Nevada Game and Fish
Department -- and won
--
after he was charged
while gathering (tules)
cattails for
traditional crafts. |
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Border IssuesIn
the US, Hacktivists
Anonymous exposed
Arizona police files
to show that white
supremacists and off
duty Marines are
patrolling the
Arizona border with
assault weapons. Meanwhile,
the militarization
of the US/Mexico
border continues.
Drones fly overhead,
and Border Patrol
agents abuse Indian
people in their
homelands.Censored
News published a
diagram of
$1,500,000,000 spy
towers being planned
for the Tohono
O'odham Nation.
Spytowers on the
Arizona border
($1,000,000,000
each) didn't work.
Project
Gunrunner began in
2005 under the Bush
administration. An
ATF brochure was
published that shows
which assault
weapons were allowed
to "walk" to drug
cartels in Mexico. |
RacismIn
Phoenix, Navajo and
O'odham led protests
against the American
Legislative Exchange
Council. Among other
things, the ALEC
enables companies to
make profits by
packing jails with
migrants, American
Indians and other
people of color.ALEC
protests included
action at the Salt
River Project, which
operates a Navajo
Nation's coal-fired
power plants.
Protesters were
pepper sprayed by
police. O'odham
veteran David Ortega
was hospitalized.Racism
continued, from
violent beatings of
Indian people by
white supremacists,
to the censorship of
their voices in the
newsrooms. |
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