United States tells Federal Court its Error Concerning Oak Flat EIS

Apache Stronghold Caravan to Ninth Circuit 2023

UNITED STATES ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR ERROR IN FORECASTING THE ISSUANCE OF FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT ON OAK FLAT

By Apache Stronghold

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The United States filed a letter with the Ninth Circuit tonight in Apache Stronghold v.

United States taking back its attorney’s statement during oral argument that the United States would issue its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) “this spring” or “early summer.” The United States now says it “has not yet identified a timeframe for

completing its review.”

 

Ox Sam Camp: Second Tipi Goes Up to Protect Massacre Site from Lithium Mine

Thacker Pass: Second Tipi Goes Up to Protect Paiute Massacre Site from Lithium Mine

Ox Sam Camp at Thacker Pass put up a second tipi today to halt the destruction of the Paiute Massacre Site by a foreign mining company, Lithium Americas of Vancouver, Canada. The camp is named after one of the only survivors of the massacre, Ox Sam, in northern Nevada.

By Ox Sam Camp
Thacker Pass, Nevada
May 18, 2023

After a week of peaceful, prayerful resistance at PeeHee Mu’huh, the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone elders and their relatives are erecting another tipi at their traditional cultural property, Pee’zuh (Nipple Rock). This comes a day after Lithium Americas tore open land adjacent to Pee’zuh for their water pipeline.

The Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribal elders/members were never consulted about the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and more about destroying PeeHee Muhah and Pee’zuh for the world’s largest open pit lithium mine. Lithium Nevada is adversely affecting this land irreversibly!

This second tipi is being erected in order to continue ceremonial prayers for the ongoing destruction of Paiute and Shoshone homelands.

Klee Jones Benally & Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara Bring “Art of Resistance” to Flagstaff’s Premiere ARTx Festival

Klee Benally

Klee Jones Benally & Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara Bring “Art of Resistance” to Flagstaff’s Premiere ARTx Festival

Contact: Suzanne Thompson

Email: suzannethompson55@gmail.com

 

Kinłani (Flagstaff, Arizona) — Local Diné artist and anarchist Klee Jones Benally will be joining forces with legendary L.A.-based musician, poet and activist Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara for Flagstaff’s premiere ARTx festival. In a cross-cultural Indigenous, intergenerational collaboration of resistance art titled “Tzonteyōtl Na’ach’ąąh,” both artists will share the stage with Diné drag artist Lady Shug, Indigenous dancer, freestyler, and visual performance artist Sonni Pinto, and Danza Mexica Mexicayōtl. Tzonteyōtl translates to resistance in Nahuatl and Na’ach’ąąh translates to art in Diné (Navajo).

Ox Sam Camp, Thacker Pass Day 8: Protecting Paiute Sacred Place from Lithium Mine

Photos by AIM Grassroots CHEME

LIVE: Day 8 Ox Sam Camp at Peehee Mu’huh /Thacker Pass Lithium Mine

Standing in Ceremony here at Ox Sam Camp Newe Momokonee Nokotun (Indigenous Women’s Camp). Paiute Shoshone elders have engaged Indigenous Land Defense erecting a Tipi in the path of proposed destruction to compel a renegotiation of the sovereign relationship to the USA. There is no Free Prior Informed Consent by international law. PeeHee Mu’huh /Thacker Pass lithium mine is on unceded territory of the Paiute/Shoshone nation(s).

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