On Friday May 19th, in the early morning, Humboldt County Sheriff's Department delivered a Temporary Restraining Order to Dorece Sam Antonio, Paiute land defender and direct descendant of Ox Sam, one of the sole survivors of the massacre at Peehee Mu'huh where the lithium mine we are resisting is being built. The order forced Dorece to leave the Ox Sam ceremonial encampment and sacred fire under threat of arrest.
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By Brenda NorrellCensored News
May 20, 2023
PEEHEE MU'HUH (Thacker Pass) Nevada -- Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Dorece Sam was served with a temporary restraining order by the Humboldt County Sheriffs Department on Friday, as she protected the Paiute Massacre Site from a foreign mining company, Lithium Americas, now ripping into the land.
Paiute and Shoshone are protecting the massacre site, and put up a second tipi this week, which is now the second week of defending the land, water, and sacred place. President Biden and the Interior Department are continuing to green-light the desecration by the lithium mine construction, calling lithium mining "green energy," and violating federal laws which protect Native American burial places, endangered species and groundwater.
Dorece Sam said, "So much has happened our numbers are small. The elders did a call out. As I got up every morning, offering prayers to protect our ancestors' unmarked burial grounds at Thacker Pass, also known as Peehee Muhu, the birds were singing their beautiful morning songs."
