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| Paiute and Shoshone defended Peehee Mu'huh, the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada. Lithium Americas of Canada, called Lithium Nevada in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the defenders and continues to drill for lithium where their ancestors remain. |
Interior Sec. Haaland Speaks on Protecting the Earth at the Democratic National Convention, Apparently Forgetting that She is Destroying It
Genocide takes me many forms: Genocide in boarding schools; the production of weapons for genocide in Palestine; and the genocide of poisoning and destroying the Sacred Ceremonial Places, where the prayers and songs keep the people alive. -- Censored News
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 23, 2024
Interior Sec. Deb Haaland spoke about protecting the planet at the Democratic National Convention -- apparently forgetting her support for lithium mining into the Paiute Massacre Site Peehee Mu'huh in Nevada, and the fact that she is being sued by three Native American Tribes in Arizona for destroying the sacred.
“Let me go back to a lesson I learned in the deserts of the Southwest. We all have a role in protecting our earth for future generations," Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, told the DNC on Thursday.
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Interior Sec. Deb Haaland told the Democratic National Convention, "I learned that we have a responsibility to take care of our planet.”
Haaland apparently forgot that she is being sued by three Native American Tribes in Arizona -- Hualapai, Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache, for destroying their sacred homelands and Ceremonial Places.
Federal judge Diane Humetewa, Hopi, granted a temporary restraining order to halt lithium mining at Hualapai's Ceremonial Spring this week, after the Hualapai Tribe filed a lawsuit against Haaland. Haaland's attorneys told the federal court that it was necessary for the "green energy transition" for Australia's Hawstone Energy, now called Arizona Lithium, to drill into Hualapai's Ceremonial Place. Federal Judge Humetewa ruled otherwise granting the temporary injunction.
While speaking on protecting the earth for future generations, Haaland apparently forgot that she is being sued by three Native American Tribes in Arizona: Hualapai, Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nation.
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| Bulldozers for SunZia transmission lines are ripping through the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson, and destroying the ancient village sites, medicine gathering areas, and burial places of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache. |
The Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations filed a lawsuit against her for allowing SunZia's bulldozers to destroy their ancient village sites, medicine gathering areas, and burial places. A federal judge in Tucson refused to grant a restraining order to stop Haaland, who is pushing a project to take wind energy from New Mexico to California. The destruction and costly legal battle continues, as bulldozers are cutting a disastrous path through remote and pristine southern Arizona, destroying the irreplaceable.
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| Havasupai Carletta Tilousi speaks at Santa Fe Indian Market. Video screenshot by Censored News. |
The U.S. government is also being sued by the Havasupai Tribe for the uranium mining in their homeland in the Grand Canyon. The Pinyon Plain uranium mine threatens Havasupai water, and has already endangered Havasupai, Paiute, Dine' and Hopi on its radioactive haul route to the uranium mill in Utah, where White Mesa Ute are victims of the radioactive mill that is poisoning their homeland.
Carletta Tilousi, Havasupai, speaking at the Santa Fe Indian Market last weekend, urged support to protect their sacred water and Red Butte from the uranium mining of Pinyon Plain mine. Tilousi said she has been fighting this battle of uranium mining since the age of 14. She grew up in her homeland, in the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
"Havasu Creek is one of the oldest aquifers in the Southwest." It drains into her village and creates waterfalls. "That's the water we're trying to protect." There are 597 Havasupai tribal members. "We don't know when the contamination is going to reach us, it's just a matter of time."
Although 600 uranium mining claims have been eliminated, the Pinyon Plain uranium mine maintains its claim and is mining.
"This mine is next to our sacred mountain, Red Butte, where our Creation Stories come from. It is now being desecrated," she said, pointing out that it is unknown what is in the air from the uranium mining, and how the medicine plants there, cedar and sage, are being affected, for their sweat lodges.
"Our voice is through our art, our voice is through our songs."
Tilousi, urging unity, called for all people to stand together and protect the sacred waters.
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| Canada's Lithium Americas drilling into the Paiute massacre site where the ancestors remain, in violation of federal laws. Drone video courtesy Peehee Mu'huh defenders |
Haaland told the Associated Press that she supports the lithium drilling into the Paiute Massacre Site Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, in northern Nevada. The Biden administration announced more than $2 billion dollars in loans for the destruction, violating federal laws, calling it "green energy."
Paiute and Shoshone defending the massacre site are now named in a lawsuit by Lithium Nevada, a subsidiary of the Canadian company. The Canadian company has charged Paiute and Shoshone with "trespass" and other crimes, ignoring the fact that it is their homeland.
“We’ve acted for the coming generations to protect Mother Earth.”
On September 12th, 1865, federal soldiers murdered at least 31 Paiute men, women, and children in Thacker Pass during “The Snake War.”
Several of the defendants in the case are descended from people who were killed in 1865, including Dorece Sam, whose ancestor Ox Sam escaped the calvary raid by riding his horse though Thacker Pass.
“We took action to protect the land, air, and water for our future generations,” says Sam, who is a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.
On September 12th, 1865, federal soldiers murdered at least 31 Paiute men, women, and children in Thacker Pass during “The Snake War.”
Several of the defendants in the case are descended from people who were killed in 1865, including Dorece Sam, whose ancestor Ox Sam escaped the calvary raid by riding his horse though Thacker Pass.
“We took action to protect the land, air, and water for our future generations,” says Sam, who is a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.
“Peehee Mu’huh is part of the history and future of our people. But what will that future look like now?”
Waivers and violations of federal laws benefit foreign mining companies
The federal laws waived to build the border wall continue to be violated in permits for mining on Native sacred lands -- including permits to foreign companies who can easily avoid the costly cleanup.
On April 3, 2008, the Secretary of Homeland Security waived the application of thirty-seven federal
statutes to activities relating to construction of the
border fence along nearly 500 miles of the United
States’ border with Mexico.
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| Quechan joined the Apache Stronghold on its Journey to the Supreme Court during August. Quechan are battling gold and lithium mining on their ancestral ceremonial land in southern California. |
Biden and Haaland continue to violate federal laws in permits for foreign mining companies, and have joined Australia's Rio Tinto to fight Apache Stronghold in federal court. The U.S. wants a copper mine to gouge out Apaches sacred Ceremonial Place of Oak Flat in Arizona. Rio Tinto mining blew up 46,000 years of ancient Aboriginal teachings in caves in Australia. Rio Tinto was forced to admit widespread sexual assaults at its mines, with the highest number in Australia and South Africa.
The Long List of Federal Law Waivers
The massive waiver of federal laws to build the border wall in 2008 include:
The National
Environmental Policy Act (Pub. L. 91-190, 83 Stat.
852 (Jan. 1, 1970) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.))
Endangered Species Act (Pub. L. 93-205, 87 Stat. 884
(Dec. 28, 1973) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.))
Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (commonly referred to
as the Clean Water Act) (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.))
National Historic Preservation Act (Pub. L. 89-665,
80 Stat. 915 (Oct. 15, 1966) (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.)),
Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.)
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.)
Archeological Resources Protection Act (Pub. L. 96-95,
16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.)
Safe Drinking Water Act
16a
(42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.)
Noise Control Act (42
U.S.C. 4901 et seq.), the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as
amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.)
Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.),
Archaeological
and Historic Preservation Act (Pub. L. 86-523, 16
U.S.C. 469 et seq.)
Antiquities Act (16 U.S.C. 431
et seq.), the Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities
Act (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.)
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Pub. L. 90-542, 16 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.)
Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 U.S.C. 4201 et
seq.)
Coastal Zone Management Act (Pub. L. 92-
583, 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.)
Wilderness Act (Pub.
L. 88-577, 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.)
Federal Land
Policy and Management Act (Pub L. 94-579, 43
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
National Wildlife Refuge
System Administration Act (Pub. L. 89-669, 16
U.S.C. 668dd-668ee)
Fish and Wildlife Act of
1956 (Pub. L. 84-1024, 16 U.S.C. 742a, et seq.)
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (Pub. L. 73-121,
16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.)
Administrative Procedure
Act (5 U.S.C. 551 et seq.)
Otay Mountain Wilderness Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106-145)
Sections
102(29) and 103 of Title I of the California Desert
Protection Act (Pub. L. 103-433), 50 Stat. 1827
National Park Service Organic Act (Pub. L. 64-235,
16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4)
National Park Service General
Authorities Act (Pub. L. 91-383, 16 U.S.C. 1a-1 et
seq.)
Sections 401(7), 403, and 404 of the National
Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-625)
Sections 301(a)-(f) of the Arizona Desert Wilderness
Act (Pub. L. 101-628)
Rivers and Harbors Act of
1899 (33 U.S.C. 403)
Eagle Protection Act (16
U.S.C. 668 et seq.)
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.)
American Indian Religious Freedom Act (42
U.S.C. 1996)
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(42 U.S.C. 2000bb)
National Forest Management
Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.)
Multiple
Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 528-
531).
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