Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 17, 2025

Federal Judge Denied Latest Appeal to Save Oak Flat




San Carlos Apache Tribe in Federal Court in Desperate Battle to Save Oak Flat

UPDATE August 15, 2025 -- "A U.S. district judge on Friday denied the latest request by a Native American tribe, environmentalists and other plaintiffs to stop the federal government from transferring land in Arizona for a massive copper mining project.
The ruling by Judge Dominic Lanza triggered an immediate appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a deadline fast approaches for the federal government to move ahead with the transfer next week." -- AP

August 16, 2025

Ruby Valley Treaty Gathering October 2025

 



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HAND GAMES, CARD GAMES, ROUND DANCERS, and SINGERS ARE WELCOME!

Please join us for the 2025 Ruby Valley Treaty Gathering!

August 14, 2025

Politicians and Cops Targeted the Sacred -- Now They Will Walk to Remember, and Protect

Hualapai 'Water is Life'

Politicians and Cops Targeted the Sacred -- Now They Will Walk to Remember, and Protect

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Aug. 14, 2025

Deb Haaland's BIA and BLM were part of a joint terrorism task force that stalked Paiute and Shoshone as they prayed at the Paiute Massacre Site, Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass. Haaland was head of the Interior Department during the years of secret surveillance. The government agencies and law enforcement met in Reno in 2022 and targeted Thacker Pass protectors, new documents reveal.

August 11, 2025

Law Enforcement's Secret Surveillance of Defenders at Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu'huh, Exposed by ProPublica and Nevada Independent


Myron Dewey, Paiute

Law Enforcement's Secret Surveillance of Defenders at Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu'huh

Lithium Americas of Canada plans huge man camp in Winnemucca

The BIA and BLM were part of 10 agencies in a joint terrorism task force stalking defenders of Peehee Mu-huh, Thacker Pass, new documents reveal. The surveillance intensified when Myron Dewey supported. The Nevada Sheriff said there could be "another Standing Rock," and called in a "spin master" to discredit Water Protectors, as he had done at Standing Rock. ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the surveillance. Censored News tracks back on the timeline. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's BIA was part of the joint terrorism task force targeting the defenders of Peehee Mu-huh.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Aug. 12, 2025

THACKER PASS, Nevada -- 
While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of Paiutes at Peehee Mu'huh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a lithium mine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance.

The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before Myron Dewey was killed, and continued afterwards.

ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the BIA, and a counter-terrorism task force.