Canada Failing Youths and Survivors of Residential Schools, Indigenous Youths Tell United Nations

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Canada Failing Youths and Survivors of Residential Schools, Youths Tell United Nations By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 22, 2024

NEW YORK -- "Canada continues to fail to take up solutions from survivors and Indigenous youths to address the legacy of the residential school system," a coalition of community-based Indigenous youth groups told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Indigenous community-based youth groups in so-called Canada voiced an urgent need to have their collective rights respected for cultural and language revitalization, and climate justice, in the face of ongoing environmental racism, land and cultural dispossession and "Canada's willful disregard of traditional government systems."

The youths urged implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation's Commission's Call to Action 66 for multiyear funding for community-based youth groups organizations, to deliver programs on reconciliation and establish a national network to share best practices.

The youths stressed the need to have a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.

Censored News original series on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The Red Nation -- Albuquerque Teacher Cut off Braid, Verbally Assaulted Student: Pack the Courtroom

MCKENZIE JOHNSON V. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND MARY JANE EASTIN

On October 31, 2018, two Indigenous students at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico were assaulted by their teacher, Mary Jane Eastin. One student, had roughly three inches of her braid cut off, and McKenzie Johnson was called “a bloody Indian.”

Pack the Courtroom: Monday, April 29, 2024, 10 a.m.

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By The Red Nation, Censored News, April 21, 2024

On October 31, 2018, two Indigenous students in an Advanced Placement literature class at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, NM were assaulted by their teacher, Mary Jane Eastin. One student, who asks to remain anonymous, had roughly three inches of her braid cut off, and McKenzie Johnson was called “a bloody Indian.” 

Bolivia 'The Women in My Community Have Always Been Warriors'

Representative of the Bartolina Sisa National Confederation of Peasant Women of Bolivia by Censored News.

Bolivia 'The Women in My Community Have Always Been Warriors'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 21, 2024

NEW YORK -- "The women in my community have always been warriors," the representative of the powerful Indigenous women's movement in Bolivia told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Friday.

"Indigenous women and girls face many challenges and we are forgotten. We do not have access to proper education and health care, and economic opportunities. That is not fair and is unacceptable."

"However in Bolivia, we have made significant progress," said the representative of the Confederation of National Indigenous and Campesino Women of Bolivia Bartolina Sisa.  

Spotlight on Indigenous Youths at UN Permanent Forum: Katisha Paul

Katisha Paul speaking UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today. Screenshot by Censored News.

Spotlight on Indigenous Youths at UN Permanent Forum: Katisha Paul

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 20. 2024

NEW YORK -- "Our land is our future. Our Indigenous languages are derived from the land," Katisha Paul, Stʼatʼimc Nation, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today.

With eloquence and power, Katisha urged more opportunities for Indigenous youths at the United Nations, a greater voice in the solutions to climate change, and an international convention on Indigenous languages.

"We are coming for everything that our ancestors were denied."

"Long live Indigenous Peoples!"