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Remembering Tohono O’odham Nation tribal member Raymond Mattia May 17, 2026       By Ophelia Rivas   Censored News “U.S. Border Patrol Shot Tohono O’odham Ceremonial Person 38 Times in His Doorway” – https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/us-border-patrol-shoots-tohono-oodham.html RAYMOND MATTIA 23-1802 MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORT PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA TOHONO O’ODHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT – https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23858152/ome-signed-report-raymond-mattia-june-2023-pdf.pdf The Intercept_ “Justice Department Won’t […]

Tohono O’Odham Ophelia Rivas at build peace in spain, “Elbit’s israeli spy towers” December 1, 2025   December 1, 2025     Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O’odham, speaks at Build Peace in Spain. Photo: Build Peace, Censored News By Ophelia Rivas Censored News Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O’odham, spoke at the international Build Peace conference in Spain, […]

O’odham Voice Against the Wall: Donate to Holiday Efforts December 1, 2021   By Ophelia Rivas December 1, 2021     Over 17 years of grassroots efforts by O’odham VOICE Against the Wall, supporters, and long-time allies to bring Holiday Cheer to communities in isolated areas of the traditional O’odham homelands. Deep appreciation to all […]

Ophelia Rivas: In solidarity with Yoeme and Zapatistas: Words to Indigenous Peoples Conference in France September 10, 2021 Ophelia Rivas, exposing the abuse of the U.S. Border Patrol and Israel’s Elbit Systems surveillance towers on her homeland, the Tohono O’odham Nation, told the Indigenous Peoples program in Nantes, France, on Wednesday, she stands in solidarity […]

Three Yaqui Assassinated and Disappeared June 18, 2021   By Brenda Norrell Censored News June 18, 2021     The assassination of Yaqui Water Rights Defender Luis Urbano, and disappearance of Yaqui Water Rights Defender Tomas Rojo, was preceded on May 1 by the assassination of a third Yaqui who was part of the highway […]

Yaqui water defender murdered June 12, 2021   BEATRIZ GUILLÉN Mexico – 12 JUN 2021 – 04:13 CESTEl Pais LABERINTO YO’EME Crime has once again shaken the battered Yaqui tribe. Environmental defender Luis Urbano was murdered this week in downtown Ciudad Obregon, Sonora. Less than two weeks ago Tomás Rojo, one of the community’s historic […]

Divest the Wall, Divest Elbit Event – May 7, 2021 April 27, 2021   Join us in the first installation of the DIVEST BORDER PANEL SERIES as indigenous peoples and allies discuss the impacts of Integrated Fixed Towers (IFTs) and their impact on Indigenous peoples rights in the United States and globally. The Zoom event […]

O’odham Solidarity website creator journeys to Spirit World January 29, 2021   To all our Friends and Supporters, My dear friend and honorable warrior Jeffery D. Hendricks took his journey to the infinite spirit world on January 13, 2021. In his memorial my family honors him with words from my daughter, “It’s hard to put […]

Desecration of Ali Jegk JUNE 1, 2020 ALI JEGK, Tohono O’odham Nation — The destruction of sacred land is underway here in Ali Jegk (Little Clearing community on the Tohono O’odham Nation.   Read the article here: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/06/desecration-of-ali-jegk-tohono-oodham.html     “The destruction of our mountain is yet another deliberate attempt to dismantle the hundreds of […]

Excavator arrives, desecration of Tohono O’odham lands for Israeli spy tower. APRIL 21, 2020 The failure of this generation to defend the land is this excavator with a drill, which arrived yesterday and parked at the end of our community road. From time immemorial, our ancestors had to defend themselves against missionaries who chopped off […]