Paiute and Shoshone Halt Construction at Thacker Pass Lithium Mine

"Another hard day will begin in an hour at 5 am when more work trucks start coming. We could use backup, campers who want to support. We can’t do it alone."

Paiute and Shoshone elders and youths blocked a fuel truck on Thursday afternoon, as they protected the unmarked burial places of their ancestors massacred here.

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Live updates Thursday

Paiute and Shoshone elders and youths turned a fuel truck around, as they blockade the road and protect the Paiute Massacre Site from lithium mine construction, at 4 pm today, Thursday. 

https://www.facebook.com/100000648076481/videos/207096708753581/

Humboldt County Sheriff's Dept. issued a second and final warning to Paiute and Shoshone elders and youths blocking the road to protect the Paiute Massacre Site and the unmarked graves of their ancestors, and the water, from lithium mine construction this afternoon. Paiute and Shoshone elders spent the day in prayer and ceremony and were joined by youths to block the trucks. Biden issued the permit for a foreign corporation, Lithium Americas of Vancouver, Canada, to gouge out the earth here for a lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Biden says it's 'green energy' for electric vehicles. A federal judge allowed it to proceed even though it is in violation of federal laws.

Video on YouTube: Second round with Sheriff's Department

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2LMN_n8_gA

Humboldt County Sheriffs Dept. Arrives -- Tells Paiute and Shoshone that it is illegal to block a public road: Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

Video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA3wEF53AA

Watch the live stream on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ProtectThackerPass/

   Blocking construction of the lithium mine this morning. The teepee went up and Paiute and Shoshone began offering prayers, urging others to come in a good way and help. Photo courtesy Protect Thacker Pass.

 

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Protecting Paiute Unmarked Burials and the Water, in the Spirit of the Ghost Dancers

By Brenda Norrell

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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Live on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ProtectThackerPass/videos/941069800554453

For the second time in a month, Paiute and Shoshone elders and youths are blocking construction with prayer. Elders are calling for people to "Come help us in a good way, stand up and be strong."

"We are where an important ceremony is happening today. We are in peaceful prayer," a Paiute elder said as the teepee went up early this morning at Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, where construction of an open-pit lithium mine is underway.

The teepee is symbolic to the Paiute people and Lakota people. "We're at this great place and this great home, and this great space is to put up something that represents us, prayer, peace and who we are as Native people."

"The canvas, the skin, comes from the east, our Lakota people, and the poles come from our Paiute Nation," she said.

"We are connected through the very sacred ceremony, the Ghost Dance."

"We are putting up our teepee and making a prayer, a peaceful prayer, to pray with our people."

"We are putting it right here, where they have made a scar, putting in their water pipeline."

"We are protecting our unmarked burials. Our ancestors were massacred here."

"We are making a mark to let our ancestors know we are here," she said, adding that the water must be protected from the demand for water by the lithium mine.

https://www.facebook.com/ProtectThackerPass

Protect Thacker Pass said:

Early this morning, two Paiute spiritual leaders from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, and the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe — began a prayer for the water, the land, and future generations at Peehee Mu’huh, also known as Thacker Pass, where construction of an open-pit lithium mine is ongoing at a Northern Paiute sacred site.

"A teepee is going up blocking construction of the mine and supporters have begun to gather on-site. We ask you to please share this live stream, support the grassroots effort, and get involved. Thank you."

                                           Photo courtesy Protect Thacker Pass

Humboldt County Sherrif's Dept. issued a second and final warning on Thursday afternoon for Paiute elders blocking the road as they protect the unmarked burial places of their ancestors. 

Photo courtesy Protect Thacker Pass

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Also see: AP: Judges decisions on mining law

https://apnews.com/article/mining-nevada-lithium-renewables-energy-d12b9c4c3f7d70f3e6f9b0f42bf81a3f

Legacy of Death -- New Uranium Mines Target Navajos at Church Rock and Australian Aboriginals

Warning sign at United Nuclear spill site at Church Rock, N.M.

Canadian company now endangering Dine' in New Mexico, and Aboriginals in Australia, with new uranium mining

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

April 3, 2023

French translation by Christine Pratt:

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/

Update: Dine' in Church Rock were not told about the new uranium mining

Read the update at NM Political Report:

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/05/01/navajo-nation-officials-activists-feel-cut-out-as-company-advances-uranium-mining-plans/

CHURCH ROCK, New Mexico -- A Canadian company drilled test sites for new uranium mines at Church Rock in December. It is the site of the largest radioactive spill in the United States, which continues to poison the region with radioactivity in the Rio Puerco wash flowing west.

Paiute Blocked Lithium Mine Construction at Thacker Pass Nevada

Protect Peehee Mu'huh!

Fort McDermitt and Pyramid Lake Paiute offered prayers, and blocked construction by Lithium Americas of Canada, at the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada. "They are digging right into the massacre site." Biden calls this 'green energy' for electric vehicle batteries. The federal court said it is illegal and allowed it to proceed anyway. 

Follow Protect Thacker Pass on social media. -- Censored News, April 25, 2023.

TORONTO: Barrick Gold Protested -- Global Abuse of Indigenous Peoples and Lands

"We’re both inside and outside Barrick Gold’s shareholder meeting. We’re bringing the voices of communities around the world resisting Barrick’s violent, destructive mining projects. The protest’s cheers are clearly audible inside the meeting where 100% of the questions asked to CEO Mark Bristow have highlighted Barrick’s harm. A huge screen is also playing this video outside: youtu.be/nhF_Igpwa2I #ProtestBarrick

This is what Barrick Gold did to Bald Mountain, Western Shoshone's ancestral sacred lands in Nevada. Battling the gold mines targeting sacred Mount Tenabo, the Cortez Hills mining project, Western Shoshone Carrie Dann said, “This area is where the seasons of the year were named — in the time before people were here." Now, Nevada Gold Mines is a joint venture between Barrick and Newmont. -- Censored News.

Conflict, Environmental Harm, and Human Rights Abuse Allegations – What Barrick Shareholders Need to Know

By MiningWatch Canada

Mining Injustice Solidarity Network

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White House Correspondents Dinner: SUV Plows into Climate Defenders

 

An official black SUV slammed into climate defenders at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Screenshot by Censored News from live video.

The Rich and Famous Cross Protest Line to Flaunt Excess at Lavish White House Correspondents Dinner

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

April 29, 2023

WASHINGTON -- The rich and famous, politicians and the media, crossed the protest line to flaunt excesses at the White House Correspondents Dinner and ignored an official black SUV plowing into climate defenders on Saturday.

Today, the big media is focused on fashion and the famous, and Biden's jokes at the dinner for media correspondents. Very few media outlets have covered the protests, calling for Biden to live up to his promises of ending fossil fuels and halt the constant new permits for oil and gas leases.

Ox Sam Grandmother: Paiute Shoshone have right to hold ceremony at Pee'zuh

Ox Sam Grandmother: Paiute Shoshone have right to hold ceremony at Pee'zuh

By Ox Sam Camp

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May 27, 2023

Despite being threatened by Lithium Nevada with trespass for accessing her own sacred grounds, Fort McDermitt Grandmother Josephine (Sam) Dick is holding ceremony at her traditional sacred site Pee'zuh (Nipple Rock).

Grandma is a direct descendant and founder of Ox Sam Camp (named after Ox Sam who survived a massacre by the US Nevada Soldiers in 1865). The Grandmothers welcome those who come in a good way to stand in ceremony with them; the BLM and Department of Interior granted this big corporation a permit to destroy this land.

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The Paiute Shoshone people have an inalienable right to hold ceremony here.

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (42 U.S.C § 1996) states that it is “the policy of the United States to protect and preserve for American Indians their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise the traditional religions of the American Indian...including but not limited to access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites.”

Executive Order No. 13007, Indian Sacred Sites

“In managing Federal lands, each executive branch agency with statutory or administrative responsibility for the management of Federal lands shall, to the extent practicable, permitted by law, and not clearly inconsistent with essential agency functions:

1. accommodate access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites by Indian religious practitioners and

2. avoid adversely affecting the physical integrity of such sacred sites.”