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"Free the captives
Fire to the cages
Make sure they can''t build again..."

#KleeBenally, Dec 22, 2017

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAo1b2JqHwU

#CapitalismIsTheEnemyOfMotherEarth #CapitalismIsTheEnemy #IndigenousAction #FridayNightMusicVideos
#MusicForTheResistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#RIPKleeBenally #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrison #PrisonersOfWar #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
#Resist #DefundICE #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NativeAmericanActivists
#NativeAmericanMusicians

#BloodInMyEyes by #KleeBenally

"if this is the season to harvest
we harvest what we have grown
our teethe like daggers
our nails sharpened on stone

our enemies surround us
there is a symmetry in this cycle
the land and the seasons
are weapons of our survival

in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?

we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
like thousands of arrows, lightening crashing down
we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
with darkness and mother earth, we stand this sacred ground…

in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?"

from The Unsustainable Sessions, released November 26, 2019

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EU6LxNT4g

#FridayNightMusicVideos #MusicForTheResistance #CapitalismKills #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #DefendMotherEarth #Resist #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians

The #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees' song #CitiesInDust is one of my favorite songs of all time. Listen to this powerful rendition by #KleeBenally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdUZK-4e_0U
#RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #BurnTheFort #BurnYourVillageToTheGround #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians

#Blackfire - "Common Enemy" (LIVE at the Grass Roots Festival of Music & Dance, in Trumansburg, NY - 2022)

Posted Dec 22, 2024

"Navajo (Diné) activists Jeneda (guitar & vocals, Klee (percussion) and Clayson Benally (guitar & vocals), perform together as 'Blackfire' at the GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, in Trumansburg, NY."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iiIoOK4v6Q

#RestInPowerKleeBenally #KleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #NativeAmericanActivists #NativeAmericanMusicians

Update on #MyronDewey's killer from #CensoredNews

Published December 19, 2024

"The driver of the truck that killed #Paiute journalist Myron Dewey is an engineer with the same Reno, Nevada, mining company that did the initial testing for #LithiumMining at #Hualapai's ceremonial spring in #Arizona. The #HualapaiNation filed a federal lawsuit against Interior Sec. #DebHaaland for the mining permit issued to an Australian company."

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/choking-with-grief-myron-deweys-family.html

Article about Federal lawsuit from November 7, 2024:

In Major Win for Hualapai, Judge Extends Drilling Freeze For Lithium

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-major-win-for-hualapai-judge-extends.html

#JusticeForMyronDewey #WaterIsLife #BigSandyLithiumMine #BigSandy #HaKamwe #StopBigSandyLithiumMine #ProtestWalk #ProtectHaKamwe
#NoLithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #BigSandyLithiumMine #ProtectTheSacred #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendMotherEarth #DefendTheSacred #NativeAmericanActivists #PeacefulProtest #HawkstoneEnergy

Statement from #JacobJohns about the plea deal, saying:

"'This was a #HateCrime. This is a continuation of #colonial violence. Unfortunately, this criminal process is reflective of the systemic #WhiteSupremacy that Indigenous peoples face. The shooter motivated by hatred got 9.5 years, but will actually be in prison for half that time. Just imagine if I shot a person at a MAGA rally or a Christian prayer service I’d be put away for life. And all we were doing was having a peaceful sunrise ceremony – we went there to pray and our prayers were answered because the Oñate statue still does not stand.

"We live in a sick society where a man with a MAGA hat would come with a loaded gun and commit political and racial violence; though the police were on notice of that violence they weren’t there to protect us.

"The lifelong scars and injuries, loss of an internal organ, mental anguish and trauma will be with me forever – and in a couple of years Martinez will live free.

"I don’t want to end with the anger I feel inside. I want to express that Indigenous prayers and lifeways work. Pueblo people will always stand together and maintain a continuity of resistance to white supremacy and the destruction of the Earth."

#JuanDeOñate #RyanMartinez #Oñate #MAGA #MAGAViolence #IndigenousArtist #ClimateActivist #Artivist #IndigenousActivists #ClimateJustice #NativeAmericanActivists
#HateCrime #MAGATerrorism

Boo hiss...! "The state agreed to dismiss a possible #HateCrime enhancement as a part of the plea deal."

#JohnJacobs #JuanDeOñate #RyanMartinez #Oñate #MAGA #MAGAViolence #IndigenousArtist #ClimateActivist #Artivist #IndigenousActivists #ClimateJustice #NativeAmericanActivists
#MAGATerrorism

Man sentenced after pleading no contest to charges in #Oñate protest shooting [of #JacobJohns]

Jonathan Fjeld, Updated: October 8, 2024

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. — "A plea deal has been reached in the case of a man accused of a shooting last year at a protest over a Juan de Oñate statue.

"Ryan Martinez pleaded no contest Monday to aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A judge subsequently sentenced him to 9.5 years, which includes a firearm enhancement. Martinez will serve a minimum of four years as a result of his plea to a serious violent offense.

"The state agreed to dismiss a possible hate crime enhancement as a part of the plea deal.

"The court scheduled jury selection to begin Monday for Martinez’s trial. Prosecutors accused him of shooting and wounding Jacob Johns at a protest last September in Española.

"One group was celebrating the postponement of the rededication of the Oñate statue. A smaller group stood by, arguing that officials were ignoring their culture and history. For the most part, they stayed separate, until one individual jumped a wall and ran toward the protesters.

"Video showed the Oñate protesters trying to tackle the man as he ran toward the group. The video showed protesters ripping off his 'Make America Great Again' hat as he jumped back over the wall. Then, the video showed that man firing one shot that hit a protester.

"Medics arrived about 10 minutes later and took the shooting victim to the hospital.

"Witnesses said the man drove away in a white Tesla. They identified him as 23-year-old Ryan Martinez. They also described him as a known online troll who often riled up crowds at protests. New Mexico State Police arrested him later that day and confirmed it was Martinez.

"A judge ruled to keep Martinez in jail until his trial."

Source:
https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/man-sentenced-after-pleading-guilty-to-charges-in-onate-protest-shooting/

#JuanDeOñate #RyanMartinez #Oñate #MAGA #MAGAViolence #IndigenousArtist #ClimateActivist #Artivist #IndigenousActivists #ClimateJustice #NativeAmericanActivists
#HateCrime #MAGATerrorism

#NativeAmerican artist's new show includes painting of man accused of shooting him

By Nicholas Gilmore, Jul 9, 2024

"For #JacobJohns, painting a portrait of the man accused of trying to kill him was a sort of exercise in healing.

"The Spokane, Wash.-based artist and activist on Tuesday afternoon stood next to his own five-foot-tall painting of Ryan Martinez, who is accused of having shot Johns last September at a protest in Española.

"The plan, Johns said, is to turn the painting into a work of collaborative art by leaving markers next to the portrait and encouraging visitors to the exhibition to contribute to it."

Read more:
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/native-artists-new-show-includes-painting-of-man-accused-of-shooting-him/article_d3da132e-3e1d-11ef-8929-bbe91e7b5338.html

#JuanDeOñate #RyanMartinez #Oñate #MAGA #MAGAViolence #IndigenousArtist #ClimateActivist #Artivist #IndigenousActivists #ClimateJustice #NativeAmericanActivists
#HateCrime #MAGATerrorism

[Photos] Protect Ha'Kamwe' Stop Big Sandy #LithiumMine Protest Walk
"#WaterIsLife!" #Hualapai say as they march today to protect their sacred ceremonial place Ha'Kamwe' from a lithium mine.

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, October 20, 2024

Photos via #HualapaiCulturalResources

"'Water is life!' Hualapai said as they marched to protect their sacred ceremonial place, Ha'Kamwe' from a lithium mine.

"'For generations and through modern day, Tribal members have used Ha’Kamwe’ (also known as Cofer Hot Spring) for cultural and traditional purposes. It features prominently in tribal songs and stories about their history and connection to their land, including those known as the #SaltSongTrail,' the Hualapai Tribe said in its lawsuit filed against the U.S. Interior.

"Hualapai filed suit against Interior's #DebHalaand. The CEO of the so-called #NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany, a tribal enterprise based in Farmington, New Mexico, was hired by an Australian company, #Hawkstone, aka #ArizonaLithium, to drill into Hualapai's sacred site for lithium.

"While sipping wine at the Sydney Opera House, #investors heard how much money they can make mining lithium in Arizona. The enthusiastic project manager was excited to tell them that Arizona loves mining, as can be seen with all its #CopperMines.

"'They are a mining friendly state,' says Paul Lloyd, managing director at Arizona Lithium, owned by #HawkstoneEnergy, in Perth, Australia. 'They are very pro-lithium production.'

"Federal judge #DianeHumetewa Hopi, granted a temporary restraining order. Humetewa is the first federal judge in Arizona to halt #Haaland's runaway train of permits for destruction.

"Hualapai's lawsuit said the Interior's #BureauOfLandManagement, BLM, never consulted Hualapai before authorizing #drilling."

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/protect-hakamwe-stop-big-sandy-lithium.html

#StopBigSandyLithiumMine #ProtestWalk #ProtectHaKamwe
#NoLithiumMining
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #BigSandyLithiumMine #ProtectTheSacred #ReaderSupportedNews #DefendMotherEarth #DefendTheSacred #NativeAmericanActivists #PeacefulProtest

"Thick cloud, steam rising
Hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me, buffalo roam
Sage in bundle, rub on skin

Outside, cold air
Stand, and wait for rising sun
Red paint, eagle feathers
Coyote calling, it has begun

Something moving in, I taste it in my mouth
And in my heart
It feels like dying, slow
Letting go of life

(Hyena wakan tanka)
(Hyena wakan tanka)
(Hyena wakan tanka)
(Hyena wakan tanka)

Medicine man lead me up though town
Indian ground, so far down
Cut up land, each house, a pool
Kids wearing water wings, drink in cool

Follow dry river bed, watch Scout and Guides
Make pow-wow signs
Past Geronimo's disco
Sittin' Bull steakhouse, white men dream

A rattle in the old man's sack, see
Look at mountain top, keep climbing up
Way above us the desert snow
White wind blow

I hold the line
The line of strength that pulls me through the fear
San Jacinto
I hold the line
San Jacinto
The poison bite and darkness take my sight
I hold the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek
Think I'm losing it, getting weaker

I hold the line!
I hold the line!
San Jacinto
Yellow eagle flies down from the sun
From the sun

We will walk, on the land
We will breathe, of the air
We will drink, from the stream
We will live, hold the line
Hold the line
Hold the line
Hold the line"
- #PeterGabriel, #SanJacinto, 1982

From Songfacts:
"The song explores the culture clash between #NativeAmericans and modern America, and features a Lakotan chant and a synthesized theme by Steve Reich."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad-8oCBu9QU

#NativeAmericanActivists #NeverGiveUp #LoveYourMotherEarth #WaterIsLife #LandBack #ProtectTheSacred

#HavasupaiRally on #WorldWaterDay: Protecting #SacredWater from #UraniumMining

March 26, 2024
By #HaulNo!
Photos by Xipe Rivera, #CensoredNews

"HAVASUPAI -- #Havasupai reaffirms commitment to protect sacred homelands from destructive #uranium mining with prayer and rally on Friday, March 22, 2024. Haul No! volunteer #XipeRivera delivers critical updates and unwavered support from Haul No!

"On World Water Day, I had the opportunity to visit the Havasupai Tribal Lands as a representative of #HaulNo! and join the Tribal Leaders, the Children and the Elders in prayer and rally against the #PinyonPlainUraniumMine.
The village is tucked deep in the #GrandCanyon and is not accessible by road - you must hike in or be flown in by helicopter. This was a profound experience. A soft and fierce reminder. An affirmation of why it is we do what we do."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/havasupai-rally-on-world-water-day.html

#NativeAmericanActivists #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #NativeAmericanNews

#StandingRock: FBI had up to 10 informants during the #resistance to DAPL

The FBI's special agent in charge, reveals in his lengthy deposition, his search for the motivation of Standing Rock #WaterProtectors to make their stand -- and he fails to find the most obvious -- The Protection of the Sacred

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 15, 2024

"In a new court case, the State of #NorthDakota claims it didn't have enough resources during the Standing Rock resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, and wants the U.S. to pay up. The testimony reveals that the FBI had up to 10 informants, not just FBI informant Heath Harmon, in the camps.

"'Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the #StandingRockSioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the #DakotaAccessPipeline in 2016,' Alleen Brown reports today at Grist.

"'The new details about federal law enforcement surveillance of an #Indigenous #EnvironmentalMovement were released as part of a legal fight between North Dakota and the federal government over who should pay for policing the pipeline fight. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.'

"'The FBI also regularly sent agents wearing civilian clothing into the camps, one former agent told Grist in an interview. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, operated undercover narcotics officers out of the reservation’s Prairie Knights Casino, where many pipeline opponents rented rooms, according to one of the depositions."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/standing-rock-fbi-had-up-to-10.html

#ACAB #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #NativeAmericanActivists