Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 19, 2023

Lithium Nevada Files Lawsuit Against Paiute Shoshone Protecting Paiute Massacre Site


Dean Barlese in prayer at Peehee Mu'huh
Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu in prayer at Peehee Mu'huh

Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims to Stop Tribal Members and Allies from Praying at Sacred Site

By Protect Thacker Pass
Photos by Max Wilbert
Censored News
June 19, 2023

RENO, Nevada — Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect Thacker Pass and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
The lawsuit is similar to what is called a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” or SLAPP suit, aimed at shutting down free speech and protest. The suit aims to ban the prayerful land defenders from the area and force them to pay monetary damages which could total millions of dollars.

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June 16, 2023

Peltier, Oak Flat and Enbridge Line 5: Priorities in UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report


The U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues urged UNESCO to step up the protection of world heritage sites to protect sites from the mining giant Rio Tinto, including Apaches Oak Flat. Rio Tinto blew up 46,000 years of Australian Aboriginals' history and sacred teachings when it blew up Juukan Gorge caves in Western Australia. (Panel of ancient rock art painting, Quinkan Cave near Laura, Cape York, Queensland, Australia)


By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

June 16, 2023


NEW YORK -- The release of imprisoned Leonard Peltier, the protection of Apaches sacred Oak Flat, and the halt of Enbridge's Line 5 were included in the final report of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The murders of Indigenous in Nicaragua, the imprisonment of Australian Aboriginal children, cross-border crime in the Amazon, and the rights and safety of Indigenous journalists are in the report from the UNPFII's 22nd session held in New York, April 17 -- 28, 2023.


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
Censored News
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.