Prayer Horse Ride to Peehee Mu'huh

Photos by Melissa Robles-Dyer

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Prayer Horse Ride to Peehee Mu'huh -- Photos by Melissa Robles-Dyer

Photo by Melissa Robles-Dyer

Photo by Melissa Robles-Dyer

Prayer Horse Ride, Censored News, March 28, 2024

Peehee Mu'huh (Thacker Pass) -- The Prayer Horse Ride, March 17-26, began in Schurz on its jouney to Peehee Mu’huh, Thacker Pass. The ride is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock.

“We do this prayer ride to reconnect our way of life,” said Josh Dini Sr., Walker River Paiute, water protector and Prayer Horse Rider.

The Prayer Horse Ride is to raise awareness about lithium mining in McDermitt Caldera, and also copper mining in the Pine Nut Hills, in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People. Riders are revitalizing cultural identity, languages and lifeways in Indigenous communities.

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