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

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8041

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.

The Arrest and Raid at Ox Sam Camp at Thacker Pass

Ox Sam Camp Raided by Police at Thacker Pass One Arrested as Prayer Tipis Are Dismantled and Ceremonial Items Confiscated Allied Universal has been identified as the private security firm that illegally confiscated and disrespected the Eagle Feathers and Ceremonial Staff during the raid on Ox Sam Camp, at the Paiute Massacre Site, Thacker Pass. Allied Universal, with a violent history, works for the foreign company Lithium Americas of Canada now digging into the unmarked burial places. The Ceremonial Staff was placed upside down in a garbage bag and being held at Lithium Americas' security building with the Ceremonial Items when these were retrieved. A young Navajo woman was arrested and terrorized. On the highway, she was transferred into a pitch-black box in the back of a truck. The raid on Ox Sam Camp and illegal confiscation of Eagle Feathers was led by Humboldt County, Nevada, Sheriffs Dept. Those responsible are Biden, Interior Dept. Deb Haaland and the BLM who are pushing this lithium mine digging into the place where Paiute women and children were massacred by U.S. soldiers, in violation of federal laws that protect Native American burial places, endangered species and their habitat, and groundwater. -- Censored News 6/8/23 Contact: Ox Sam Camp OxSam.org THACKER PASS, NV — On Wednesday morning, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Lithium Nevada Corporation, raided the Ox Sam Newe Momokonee Nokutun (Ox Sam Indigenous Women’s Camp), destroying the two ceremonial tipi lodges, mishandling and confiscating ceremonial instruments and objects, and extinguishing the sacred fire that has been lit since May 11th when the Paiute/Shoshone Grandma-led prayer action began.

Lithium Americas Illegally Confiscated Eagle Feathers During Raid at Paiute Massacre Site

Photo of Dorece Sam by Jarette Werk, Underscore News, taken prior to the raid on Ox Sam Camp

Lithium Americas Illegally Confiscated Eagle Feathers During Raid at Paiute Massacre Site 

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

ORVADA, Nevada -- Ox Sam Camp's Sacred Eagle Staff and Ceremonial Items were illegally confiscated and in the possession of Lithium Americas of Canada security before these were retrieved after the raid on the camp.

Dorece Sam, Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone, said that Auntie Josephine retrieved the Eagle Staff, and they now have their Eagle Feathers, Ceremonial Items, and Ceremonial Tipi after these were confiscated during a raid on Ox Sam Camp, led by Humboldt County Sheriffs Dept.

Lithium Americas had the Eagle Staff upside down in a trash bag. The Eagle Staff was being held at Lithium Americas security building.

Sam said they blessed it after it was returned. The tents and personal items were not returned.

Lithium Americas has just filed a SLAPP lawsuit against Paiute Shoshone protectors of the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass.

Humboldt County Sheriffs Department and Lithium Americas raided the camp and violated federal law by confiscating Ceremonial Eagle Feathers, and arresting and terrorizing a young Dine' woman during law enforcement transport.

Lithium Americas is a foreign company based in Vancouver, Canada. Biden, the Interior Department and the BLM are responsible for the lease to desecrate and destroy the burial places of the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada, in violation of federal laws which protect Native American burial places, endangered species and their habitat and groundwater. Biden calls this "green energy."

Dorece Sam and Auntie Josephine are descendants of Ox Sam, one of the only survivors of the 1865 Massacre of Paiute by U.S. soldiers.

More: Dine' Woman Terrorized During Arrest at Ox Sam Camp

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/native-woman-arrested-as-police-and.html