Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

March 17, 2023

Lithium Americas and Biden Violating Sacred Ground at Paiute Massacre Site on Thacker Pass

A drone video on Friday shows the destruction underway as the Canadian corporation Lithium Americas destroys the earth where Paiute were massacred by the U.S. Calvary at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Biden is applauding the lithium mine on the Paiute Massacre Site -- where murdered women and children's remains were left scattered by the Calvary -- as "green energy." For Paiute, it is heartbreaking.




"I cried seeing this yesterday," said Dorece Sam, Fort McDermitt Paiute, seeing the destruction of the earth on the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass for a lithium mine, in northern Nevada. "To see this shattered my heart," Sam said of the violation of the sacred. "There are no cultural monitors."







Lithium Americas and Biden Violating Sacred Ground at Paiute Massacre Site on Thacker Pass

Hazardous chemicals, around-the-clock trucks, hundreds of them carrying toxic materials, and a rail train will destroy this pristine and sacred region

By Brenda Norrell

Photos courtesy Dorece Sam

Censored News


THACKER PASS, Nevada -- "I cried seeing this yesterday," said Dorece Sam, Fort McDermitt Paiute, seeing the destruction of the earth on the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass for a lithium mine, in northern Nevada. "To see this shattered my heart," Sam said of the violation of the sacred. "There are no cultural monitors."

President Biden is cheerleading this heartbreaking unearthing of the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass. Calling this violation of the sacred "green energy," Biden is promoting this widespread destruction for batteries for electric cars. It is actually corporate money-making for a Canadian company, Lithium Americas, which has a subsidiary in the U.S., Lithium Nevada.

Protect Thacker Pass said on Friday, "The full-scale destruction of Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu'huh, this sacred and wild place, has begun. This video was submitted to us anonymously."

Below are screenshots from drone video https://fb.watch/jl1jo4HObx/











The following ad shows more of Lithium America's toxic destruction that is coming to this sacred pristine region. Lithium mining will poison the earth, water and wildlife. The ad shows the 'proposed sulfur transloading terminal' with molten sulfur, soda ash and more hazardous chemicals; a rail track and rail cars transporting dangerous toxins.

There will be around the clock, 24 hours a day, hundreds of trucks carrying hazardous chemicals, in a fragile pristine region.




Article and photos copyright Dorece Sam, Censored News

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