Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 14, 2023

Ian Zabarte to White House Council: Stop Nuclear Genocide Targeting Shoshone


Ian Zabate, Western Shoshone



Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte's comments to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council in Phoenix on Tuesday

By Ian Zabarte
Principal Man for Western Bands of Shoshone
Western Shoshone
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Translated into French by Christine Prat

Our country stretches from the Mojave Desert in the south to the Snake River in the north defined by the Treaty of Ruby Valley, the only ratified treaty in California and Nevada that is in full force and effect. We have made extensive comments to federal agencies, protested with tens of thousands of people and brought lawsuits over many decades to address the abuse, hazards and threats posed by nuclear weapons, nuclear waste and uranium – that both, disproportionately and adversely affect the Shoshone people.

Lithium Americas and United States -- Partners in Crime -- Prohibiting Access to Paiute Shoshone Sacred Place

Courtesy photo Paiute Shoshone defender of the sacred

The Lithium Lie: The Promotion of Lithium Mining as Clean Energy is the Current Hoax: It is Profit for a Foreign Mining Company, Violating Federal Laws 

By Brenda Norrell
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OROVADA, Nevada -- Lithium Americas and the United States government -- Biden, Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and the BLM -- are violating federal laws that protect Native American religious sites and burial places. Access to Peez'uh, known as Sentinel Rock and Nipple Rock, is now blocked with a metal fence and "No Trespassing" sign, as Lithium Americas tears into the burial place of Paiute massacred here by U.S. soldiers in 1865.