Western Shoshones, Mohawk youth arrive at Bolivia Climate Conference http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/04/western-shoshones-mohawk-youth-arrive.html

The Shoshones are among a grassroots group of Native Americans from North America participating in the conference. Elouise Brown, director of the Dooda (NO) Desert Rock, fighting a third power plant on the Navajo Nation, is also here. Brown joins Indigenous Peoples from throughout the Americas exposing the uranium mining, coal fired power plants and oil and gas drilling that have left a trail of death and disease in the homelands of Native Peoples.

Native American delegations from North America at the gathering include delegations of First Nations from Canada and Native Americans from the United States. Milo Yellowhair, Lakota from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and Faith Gemmill, Gwich'in from Alaska, are both here to resist the destruction of colonialism and the corporate destruction of Mother Earth.Gemmill is here to oppose new oil drilling in the Arctic and the destruction leading to the climate change that is destroying the way of life of the people in the north.

Gemmill is director of Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) and spoke on stage during the assembly when Bolivian President Evo Morales opened the conference."We are here from the far north to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters of the South. We have a choice as human kind -- a path of life, or a path of destruction. The people who can change the world are here."