Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 19, 2026

The Hungry Hounds: US Border Patrol Lurks at Tohono O'odham Nation Border

US Border Patrol at Tohono O'odham Nation's border. Photo Russ McSpadden.


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News. August

The Hungry Hounds: US Border Patrol Lurks at Tohono O'odham Nation Border

The Hungry Hounds: The U.S. Border Patrol lurks awaiting its prey at the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation, near the Nation's new 'NO TRESPASSING" signs directed at border wall contractors.

The US Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security and its plan to seize the Nation's land for the border wall. The US Border Patrol already has open access to the Tohono O'odham Nation, and a spy system in place to track O'odham and watch them.

The Israeli built Elbit Systems spy towers track O'odham on the Nation, with live video feed.

US Border Patrol agents have been arrested for murder, serial rape, assault, kidnapping, drug running and spotting for the cartels all along the border. The facts are ignored by mainstream media.

US Border Patrol agents in this area murdered Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, at his home. His body showed 11 bullets, and the wounds of rifle butts and broken bones. Raymond told Censored News before he was murdered that he had video-taped US Border Patrol agents running drugs with the cartels past his home at the border. This evidence disappeared after it was submitted.

Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, points out that the three US Border Patrol agents who murdered her lifelong friend have never been charged. A tribal police officer, a non-Indian, had a vendetta exposed in the voice evidence. He was never charged for his role leading the agents to Raymond's home where they murdered him. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/us-border-patrol-agents-who-murdered.html


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O'odham Sacred Land at Quitobaquito Springs Being Stripped Bare for Border Wall


NO Border Wall: Tree Sit at Lochiel, Arizona, Expanded to Mexico Side

 

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August 18, 2026

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

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Bulldozers scrape the sweet earth bare today near O'odham's Sacred Quitobaquito Springs. Video by Russ McSpadden.

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 18, 2026

QUITOBAQUITO SPRINGS, Arizona -- The ancestral land of O'odham is being stripped bare near Sacred Quitobaquito Springs, home to pupfish, snails and turtles found nowhere else in the world, except here in the fragile Sonoran Desert. 

Quitobaquito Springs is a place of prayer and ceremony for O'odham. The federal government is destroying this land for a second border wall, that is being protested here on the Arizona border, and from California to Texas.

The roads are closed, but Russ McSpadden hiked into the area Monday and found the destruction underway at Organ Pipe National Monument.

NO BORDER WALL: Grandmother Camp in Lochiel, Arizona, Expanded to Tree Sit on the Mexico Side


NO BORDER WALL: Grandmother Camp in Lochiel, Arizona, Expanded to Tree Sit on the Mexico Side

GRANDMOTHER CAMP HAS EXPANDED TO A TREE SIT ON THE MEXICO SIDE.
“From Minnesota to Mexico, resistance is fertile!”


"A defender of Grandmother tree phoned into the celebration for the 55th anniversary of friendship park to discuss what is happening in Southern Arizona and how the defenders of Grandmother tree have stopped border wall construction," Kate Scott said today at the tree sit in Lochiel."

"Friendship park is a binational site sitting directly on the U.S.–Mexico border, split between San Diego, California, and Playas de Tijuana, Baja California. Defending Grandmother isn’t just about protecting an ancient tree, it’s about building a community of land defenders across the whole southern border & beyond. If we can stop construction here, we can do it anywhere!"

"We hope what is happening down here in Lochiel, AZ inspires you to take action in your community,"

Watch the video on Scott's Facebook page: 

August 17, 2026

Indigenous at the United Nations Expose A.I. Data Centers and Racially-Biased Misinformation

Indigenous at the United Nations Expose A.I. Data Centers and Racially-Biased Misinformation

Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council

Update: Today, August 17, 2026: 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying large quantities of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning the books for AI, artificial intelligence. 404 Media placed a tracking device in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, known as VGT3. AI companies have been data-scraping the Internet, including copyrighted books, news articles, music and ancestral knowledge for their money-making industries. -- Censored News.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2026, Updated

GENEVA -- The mediocre, middle-of-the-road approach to A.I. at the United Nations was countered by testimony today from Indigenous Peoples pointing out that artificial intelligence is not a solution, and is doing great harm to Indigenous with derogatory misinformation and massive data centers that are poisoning the land, water and air.

Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, testified that 'influence warfare' is linked to A.I. and misinformation, and ultimately diminishing Indigenous rights. Olsvig spoke on the first day of the week-long session of the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"The changing world order requires us to rethink conflict post-conflict, and possible pre-conflict. We recommend that the study addresses hybrid warfare, including influence warfare. Disinformation, misinformation, and the rise of artificial intelligence pose new threats requiring new responses," Olsvig told the U.N.

"There's a clear link between access to information, AI, disinformation, misinformation, and the right to free, prior, and informed consent. Influence warfare aimed at undermining institutions, misleading societies, or disrupting social cohesion may specifically target Indigenous peoples."

"To uphold Indigenous peoples' rights in hybrid warfare situations, access to reliable information, including from intelligence services, is critical and should be further addressed in the study."

"Exercising our inherent right to self-determination is central. In recent years, we have seen growing interest in our Arctic homelands and resources. In some cases, this has been expressed in ways that undermine the peaceful, dignified, and diplomatic relations Inuit and other Arctic Indigenous peoples have helped build in our region."

Jaimie Williams speaking at the U.N. today on the harm by A.I. data centers. Screenshot Censored News

"I was once convinced artificial intelligence could help my tribe build our language and culture -- but A.I. is not a sustainable solution." -- Jaimie Williams

Jaimie Williams, Miami Nation in Indiana, speaking on behalf of the Society of Native Nations, at the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, responded to the A.I. summary presented this morning.