Hualapai Run to Arizona Capitol to Protect Sacred Spring from Lithium Mining

 

Hualapai runners arrived at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Tuesday, running from Peach Springs to save their sacred spring from lithium mining. Photo by Lorraine Herder.

Hualapai Run to Arizona Capitol to Protect Sacred Spring from Lithium Mining

Photos by Lorraine Herder

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Journey to the State Capitol to protect Ha’Kamwe', a sacred medicinal spring, from lithium mining in Wikieup, Arizona.

Hualapai tribal members, local community members, and allies are working to prevent further exploration drilling for the Big Sandy Lithium Project that would desecrate Ha’Kamwe’ and the ancestral homelands of the Hualapai people.

"Hualapai are fighting to save the spring. An Australian company on the hunt for lithium is drilling exploratory holes deep underground, in some cases just yards away from Ha’Kamwe’. In recent months, the water level of the spring has been dropping, according to Hualapai leaders, amid the continuous drilling."

https://earthjustice.org/article/lithium-mining-threatens-arizona-tribes-sacred-spring

Thank you Lorraine Herder, Dine', for sharing your photos with Censored News.