Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 21, 2023

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

Paiute Shoshone elder Josephine was grief-stricken after the police raid on Ox Sam Camp. The Eagle Feathers and Staff were illegally confiscated and disrespected.

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

Raided and terrorized by police, their Eagle Feathers taken, now Interior Sec. Deb Haaland has broken their hearts, imperiling future generations. Ox Sam Camp at the Paiute Massacre Site. The People of the Ghost Dancers.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

French Translation by Christine Prat

Interior Sec. Deb Haaland supports digging into the burial places of massacred Paiutes for lithium -- and said she is doing the right thing.

AP reports that Haaland, whose department oversees Thacker Pass, said that while she supports the right to peaceful protests, her agency is in favor of the mine because "the need for our clean energy economy to move forward is definitely important."

Haaland told The Associated Press that when her agency inherits a project from a previous administration, "It’s our job to make sure we’re doing things according to the science, to the law."

However, the Interior Department and a federal judge are violating federal laws that protect Native American religious and burial places; endangered species and their habitat; and the groundwater.

Biden, the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management are responsible for the desecration and destruction, and for the police raid, which terrorized Native elders and youths protecting the burial place, where Paiute were massacred in 1865.

Humboldt Sheriffs Dept. and Lithium Americas private security, Allied Universal,  raided Ox Sam Camp, and illegally confiscated and abused Eagle Feathers. They terrorized a Dine' (Navajo) young woman in transit after arresting her.

Now the foreign company, Lithium Americas of Canada, has filed a major lawsuit against Paiute Shoshone elders and supporters for praying here, and protecting the burial places.

They are the People of the Ghost Dancers. 


The foreign company Lithium Americas of Vancouver, Canada, is already destroying Thacker Pass, and the Paiute massacre site of unmarked Paiutes burials. 


The foreign company Lithium Americas has filed a major lawsuit against Paiute Shoshone elders defending the burial places of Paiute massacred here. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland said she supports the lithium mine and told AP that she is doing the right thing.





The Fake Green Spin

Biden and Interior's Haaland support Lithium Americas digging into the burial places of massacred Paiutes -- even though the foreign company is currently not profitable, and losing money.T

They are violating federal laws that protect Native burial places, endangered species, and groundwater at Thacker Pass. Will the Canadian company use its planned fortune to heal the land, bring back the dead plants and animals, and replenish the water? Impossible.



AP article: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/tribal-activists-green-colonialism-nevada-mine-biden-hails-100220404 

The Arrest and Raid of Ox Sam Camp, Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-arrest-and-raid-at-ox-sam-camp-at.html

Haaland says nuclear bomb industry will lead 'green transition' in Four Corners

 Haaland said the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos National Lab of New Mexico, would lead the 'transition to green' in Four Corners. Los Alamos maintains the nuclear weapons stockpile.

 https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/08/energy-transition-in-four-corners-led.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Esther was a Jewish queen of Persia who saved her people from being killed by Haman, the king’s advisor. Haman had planned to kill all the Jews in Persia,(Iran), not knowing Ester was Jewish. Haman hated the Jews because Mordecai would not kneel down when He passed by. Mordecai was Ester's cousin. He told her, "And who knows but that you have come to this royal position for such a time as this." Ester arranged a banquet the next day the king and Haman. At the banquet she said, "grant me my life--this is my petition and spare my people. For I and my people have been sold for destruction and slaughter and annihilation". The king asked,"Who is this man? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing" She said,"The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." In the end, Haman was hung on the gallows he had built for Mordecai. The moral of the story is that Deb Haaland is no Ester. I was hoping that she had been appointed for such a time as this.