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Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Dies
For decades, Corbin Harney was a fixture at anti-nuclear
rallies advocating for peace and protection of "Mother Earth,"
especially his native land, Newe Sogobia, which stretched across
a wide swath of what became Nevada. On Tuesday, Harney,
spiritual leader of the Western Shoshones, died of complications
from cancer in a rural area of Santa Rosa, Calif., his family
and friends said. He was 87. "We have truly lost a lot," said
his nephew, Santiago Lozada, who was at his side when died...www.elynews.com,
7/18/07
Corbin
Harney, In Loving Memory
Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney passed away
on July 10, 2007...Western Shoshone Defense Project, July
12, 2007
Western Shoshone Integral in Stopping Divine Strake Detonation
MERCURY, Nev. - Government doublespeak is nothing new in Indian
country; virtually from the days of first contact, Natives have
been deflecting verbal and political subterfuge, broken treaties
and both covert and blatant threats to Mother Earth. In a
contemporary, ongoing battle and multi-state, multi-agency and
multi-cultural effort to halt what the U.S. government called
''a scientific experiment designed to significantly advance the
nation's ability to defeat underground facilities that produce
and store weapons of mass destruction,'' the Western Shoshone
Nation was at the heart of the feds' decision to back off from
the proposed Divine Strake test detonation...www.indiancountry.com,
3/23/07
The Mountain that will Spit Poison
Mother Earth is not for sale. That's what the Western
Shoshone National Council has told the U.S. government. The
Nation was offered pennies per acre for their land in parts of
Nevada, Utah, Idaho and into California, but the Nation's
council said: No deal...www.dailysouthtown.com,
3/18/07
Divine Strake Cancelled
The 700 ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil test being planned
illegally by the United States on Western Shoshone lands in
Nevada has been cancelled, not postponed and not delayed, but
cancelled! – effective yesterday, February 22, 2007...www.unobserver.com,
2/23/07
Dozens Protest Detonation on Non-Nuclear Bomb at Test Site
More than two dozen
activists marched at the Governor's Mansion on Saturday, hoping
to send a message to Gov. Jim Gibbons and Nevada's congressional
delegation...www.nevadaappeal.com
2/4/07
Stephanie Salter: A Healthy Skepticism for Federal Activists
The good news is, it
isn’t an atomic bomb and it won’t be detonated between our own
southern Indiana towns of Bedford and Mitchell. The bad news is,
the U.S. government is champing at the bit to explode 700 tons
of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, and the most desirable spot is
about 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas on desert land still rich
in radioactive sand and soil from nearly five decades of nuclear
tests...www.tribstar.com,
1/16/07
U.N.
Delays Vote on Native Self-Determination
UNITED NATIONS, Nov
28 (IPS) - Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples
and their supporters expressed sadness and anger Tuesday as a
subsidiary body of the U.N. General Assembly rejected a draft
declaration calling for the international recognition of native
peoples' right to self-determination and control over their
traditional lands...www.ipsnews.net,
11/28/06
Pentagon Releases New Report of Spying on Quakers, Peace
Activists and Veterans, Notes Brenda Norrell
TUCSON, Ariz. – In
this age of McCarthyism and censorship, the United States
Pentagon has released a new set of documents showing it spied on
peace activists, Quakers and Veterans for Peace, in what is
surely a modest list of the spy operations of the Pentagon...www.unobserver.com,
11/27/06
Native American Fights Corporations
For more than
30 years, Carrie Dann, a native Shoshone American, has been
fighting the US government for her people's rights to their
ancestral land...aljazeera.net, 11/23/06
Western Shoshone and Navajo, Solidarity in Resistance, by Brenda
Norrell
Carrie Dann, among
the Western Shoshone fighting gold mining, nuclear testing and
the seizure of livestock and land, said the United States does
not view Indigenous Peoples as human beings...www.unobserver.com,
11/22/06
Western Shoshone Lands, Where Gold is the Color of Genocide, a
report by Brenda Norrell
On this sacred land of the
Western Shoshone, there is no question now why the horses of
Carrie and Mary Dann were brutally seized and the United States
refuses to respond to a United Nations’ ruling to “cease and
desist” from violating the rights of the Western Shoshone...www.unobserver.com,
11/22/06
Stairway to Divine Strake
On Thursday, a U.S.
government lawyer speaking on behalf of a Pentagon agency
sponsoring Divine Strake told a federal judge that she could not
promise 60 days' notice before the test would be carried out
sometime in mid-2007...www.opednews.com,
11/5/06
No New Date Set for 'Mushroom Cloud' Blast in Nevada Desert
LAS VEGAS -- No new
date was set Thursday for a proposed non-nuclear explosion that
authorities have said would send a mushroom-shaped dust cloud
high over the Nevada desert...www.nctimes.com,
11/2/06
World Earth's Day - Message for Peace
Sub-Commission Considers Question of Violation of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms in all Countries
JOE KENNEDY, of American
Indian Law Alliance, said that the Western Shoshone once spanned
across approximately 60 million acres of land within the borders
of the United States, Relief Web, 8/14/06
U.N. to Probe U.S. Human Rights Abuses
Today, the Western Shoshone Defense Project
joined a coalition of 142 U.S.-based non-profits and
organizations and 32 individuals to release the most
comprehensive review of human rights violations in the United
States ever compiled, 7/5/06
Western
Shoshone Receive Boost in Work to Keep Homeland Safe from
Further Nuclear Contamination
6/27/06
Robison Looks to Maintain the Western Shoshone Language
The Nevada Arts Council approved 12
Folklife Apprenticeship grants in May, including two in
Fallon...Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle
Standard, 6/17/06
Officials Will Alert Tribe Prior to Divine Strake Detonation
The U.S. government agreed not to detonate 700 tons of
ammonium nitrate on the Nevada Test Site in July or August
because of weather conditions...KLASTV.com,
6/16/06
Western Shoshone Keeping on the Pressure
During the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a Western Shoshone
delegation called upon the recently-formed U.N. body to pay
close attention to the situation of indigenous peoples in the
United States and other “developed” countries...www.unobserver.com,
5/26/06
Western Shoshone Keeping the
Pressure On -
US Human Rights
Violations Against Indigenous Peoples Highlighted at UN
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 17, 2006
Stop
"Divine Strake" Bombing in Newe Sogobia (NTS)
On May 28, 2006 dozens of
indigenous, environmental justice and peace and disarmament
organizations will converge at the Peace Camp outside the Nevada
Test Site near Mercury Nevada to protest the Divine Strake test
scheduled for June 2, but now apparently postponed to June 23...www.indybay.org,
5/14/06
US: Indigenous Join Global Protest of Newmont Gold Mining
Practices
Western Shoshone and
Colville tribal members protested in early May at Newmont Mining
Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting, uniting with indigenous
from Peru, Indonesia and Ghana...Indian Country Today,
5/12/06
Western Shoshone and Others File Suit to Halt Detonation
Filed suit in federal court in Las
Vegas to stop the United States from detonating 700 tons of
explosives at the Nevada Test Site...
Indian Country
Today, 4/27/06
Peaceful Protests Attack "Ecocide"
Protesters included college students,
members of the American Indian Movement and several members of
the Western Shoshone tribe from Nevada...Denver Post,
4/26/06
Major
Mining's Impossible Dream: A Low Profile AGM
Kristi Begay,
Chairwoman of the Wells Band of the Western Shoshone in Nevada,
would like Newmont to formally recognize the sovereignty of the
Western Shoshone people...www.mineweb.net,
4/26/06
Defiance in the Land of the Free
A Native American
woman is at war with the US. For 30 years she's been fighting to
keep her ancestral land - and now the United Nations is on her
side...The Sunday Times,
4/23/06
Activists and Tribe Sue to Avert Blast
Two Utah
anti-nuclear activists have joined with a Nevada Indian tribe in
filing a federal suit to try to stop a planned large-scale
non-nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert next June...deseretnews.com,
4/23/06
Indian Tribe, Downwinders ask Court to Stop Nevada Desert Blast
www.krnv.com,
4/22/06
Indian Tribe, Downwinders: Stop Nevada Blast
The Washington Post,
4/20/06
Western Shoshone Oppose Planned 700-Ton Detonation
Indian Country Today,
4/17/06
Western Shoshone Victorious at United Nations:
US Found in Violation
of Human Rights of Native Americans - Urged to
Take Immediate
Action
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