fifty years of surface mining tragically polluted the waters, air, and ecosystems of the #NorthwesternGreatBasin.

At PeeheeMu'huh (#ThackerPass) the tactics are the same: short-sighted extractive industry authorized by federal and state agencies, who collectively disregard the interests and wellbeing of #IndigenousPeoples. The Cordero Mine was built on lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (#BLM); the Thacker Pass lithium mine is similarly situated on BLM lands.

5/10

#ThackerPass #protesters seek dismissal of lawsuit by #LithiumNevada on #freespeech grounds

By: Bob Conrad, August 23, 2023

"The Thacker Pass protesters who were hit with a lawsuit filed by Lithium Nevada are seeking to get the case dismissed. The defendants last week filed a motion to dismiss the case claiming they were exercising their right to free speech.

"Lithium Nevada, which is building the Thacker Pass lithium mine, sued the protesters in late June.

"The company said activists and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute #Shoshone Tribe have attempted to block construction at the mine site.

"'Despite multiple warnings from law enforcement not to block public roads, Defendants have continued to do so,' the lawsuit alleges. 'Indeed, Defendants have proudly broadcasted their defiance of law enforcement on social media.

"The defendants disagreed with Lithium Nevada’s claims.

"'The Defendants opted to exercise their constitutional rights and went to the Mine site to pray for their ancestors as #LNC destroyed those ancestors’ final resting places, destroyed culturally significant lands formerly used for subsistence and self-preservation,' they wrote in their motion. 'It is appropriate to analyze whether LNC has established the elements of its claims for relief within the limitations imposed by the First Amendment.'

"They also disputed LNC’s claims of violence and vandalism.

"'As a #sacred site is being bulldozed, non-violent protesters are being criminalized by a foreign mining company,' said attorney Terry Lodge, representing the defendants. 'My clients were engaged in #protest that is clearly protected by the U.S. Constitution. This is #corporate greed and bullying.'"

https://thisisreno.com/2023/08/thacker-pass-protesters-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-by-lithium-nevada-on-free-speech-grounds/

#CorporateGreen #ProtectThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #protesters #Pauite

If we’re to shift the trajectory of the #ClimateCrisis and create a better future for the coming generations, we must listen to the age-old wisdom of Indigenous peoples who understand how to live in balance with the #UnciMaka, our #GrandmotherEarth.

Thank you for reading, and please take action to stop mining at #ThackerPass and in the #BlackHills.

20/20

https://lakotalaw.org/news/2023-08-09/mining-without-permission?ms=ea&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mhbt&utm_content=textlink1&sourceid=1059426&contactdata=sucr2%2fc4eQolR7phD4LJxh6EVTp%2fC0fFyCHvJJoxLHQ6C+53tbv%2fnA6eQ4zjz+qwwsGz%2fLL289dYPCC+j8BVX+Z4XerrbPYu7DBRlT7Gi3NSLVzVLjugE8USTfzNwhjtrENBAy7Y2MfLVbPIdH9xBqfVjB9PbV56vtRpZSr1QoMXmQYhJ7eJbHg8aqri8jiy%2fnRyd93GBU6kuWgINg4tD9oS3p9TBl+OK1Iejovb9j0%3d&emci=1010764a-0e37-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=48cb645b-1437-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=9521138à

which make up 80 % of the globe’s #biodiversity are cared for and protected by #IndigenousPeoples.

The #ThackerPass #mining project, located within an area known for its rich lithium deposits, aims to extract this valuable metal used in rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones, laptops, and renewable energy storage systems. The project plans to use an open-pit mining method to extract lithium-bearing clay resources, using unholy amounts of #water.

6/20

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/lithium-mining-mountains-of-water/

#ThackerPass is significant for several reasons.

Once operational, the Thacker Pass mine would become one of the largest lithium operations on #TurtleIsland, potentially providing up to 25 percent of worldwide demand for a mineral expected to power the global transition to cleaner energy. But the mine’s approval was fast-tracked over the protest of nearby #IndigenousCommunities.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280720#:~:text=The%20Thacker%20Pass%20lithium%20mine%2C%20located%20in%20Nevada's%20Humboldt%20County,25%25%20of%20global%20lithium%20demand.

2/20

THACKER PASS AND THE UGLY TRADITION OF EXTRACTION WITHOUT INDIGENOUS PERMISSION

By Tokata Iron Eyes

Peehee mu'huh (or #ThackerPass, as it’s known in English), a sensitive wilderness area located in what is now called #HumboldtCounty, #Nevada, sits on the ancestral homelands of the #Paiute and #Shoshone peoples. Right now, these lands are threatened by a #lithium mining project being developed by a company called #LithiumNevada, a subsidiary of #LithiumAmericasCorp .

1/20

US and Canada Among Top Violators of #Indigenous Rights: #Mining, Militarization and #BoardingSchools

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 1, 2023

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/us-and-canada-among-top-violators-of.html

#ThackerPass #Mining #BlackHills #EnvironmentalRacism #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #UN #LithiumMining #RioTinto #HumanRights

If we're not on offense, we're losing — and in this case, the cost could well be a healthy #future for the people and other living things that call Peehee mu'huh home.

Phyllis Young
Standing Rock Organizer
The Lakota People's Law Project

#LakotaLaw
#Nevada
#ThackerPass

5/5

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-thacker-pass-haaland-grijalva

At #ThackerPass, the #OxSam resistance camp has been active in recent months, and #arrests and temporary #restraining orders have been issued against our staff and other allies.

Founding grandmother Josephine Sam has been forced to watch as her relative, Ox Sam founder #DoreceSam, faces a civil #lawsuit.

One of the first principles of #EnvironmentalJustice is to show up when needed, and to not back down.

3/5

PROTECT THACKER PASS

#ThackerPass, or Peehee mu'huh, the site of the largest #lithium deposit in the #UnitedStates, anticipated to produce 25 percent of global lithium in the near term.

We stand at a #crossroads. As we press forward to replace #FossilFuels with #RenewableEnergy, we must answer a question: will we show respect for #IndigenousNations by honoring their right to self-determination and #land possession,

1/5

In July of 2022, the #BLM acknowledged that the 1865 massacre site was within the mine's project area for purposes of #NationalHistoricPreservationAct review.

Nevertheless, the BLM allowed construction at #ThackerPass under permits that should have been terminated. If this all sounds familiar, maybe that's because it's eerily similar to what happened with #StandingRock and the #DakotaAccessPipeline.

5/6

Over the past months, the #LakotaLaw team has spent many hours in #Nevada at Peehee Mu'Huh — #ThackerPass — where construction has begun on a mine to exploit the largest known lithium deposit on #TurtleIsland.

Find out more about the Indigenous-led #resistance, the total disregard by both government and mining interests for an historic #massacre site with great biological #diversity and sensitivity, and the police raid on and dismantling of the #OxSam prayer camp.

1/6

June 21, 2023

Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into #Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Raided and terrorized by police, their Eagle Feathers taken, now Interior Sec. #DebHaaland has broken their hearts, imperiling future generations. Ox Sam Camp at the Paiute Massacre Site. The People of the Ghost Dancers

"Interior Sec. Deb Haaland supports digging into the burial places of massacred Paiutes for #lithium -- and said she is doing the right thing.

"AP reports that Haaland, whose department oversees Thacker Pass, said that while she supports
the right to peaceful #protests, her agency is in favor of the mine because 'the need for our clean
energy economy to move forward is definitely important.'

"Haaland told The Associated Press that when her agency inherits a project from a previous
administration, 'It’s our job to make sure we’re doing things according to the science, to the law.'
However, the Interior Department and a federal judge are violating federal laws that protect Native
American religious and burial places; #endangered species and their habitat; and the #groundwater."

#CulturalGenocide #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericanNews #ThackerPass #Enviroment #EndangeredSpecies #WaterIsLife

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/interior-sec-haaland-supports-digging.html

@gdeihl I am very familiar with #ThackerPass. Thanks for the post. I'll be digging up my old posts and seeing if there is more news I haven't yet covered.

Ox Sam Camp: Land Defenders Arrested, Camp Raided After Blocking Excavator

#ThackerPass #Nevada #IndigenousResistance #Lithium

https://www.oxsam.org/breaking-land-defenders-arrested-camp-raided-after-blocking-excavator/

@sambutlerUS @cldc @Katiame Were you able to connect with a lawyer?

This request for donations and to join the protest camp was just in my feed: https://www.oxsam.org/donate

RT: https://sfba.social/@Mikal/110486665217944029

@Teri_Kanefield or @ACLU might you know someone who can help?

#Oxsam #ThackerPass #LandandWaterProtectors. #OxSamCamp #Indigenous #Paiute #Shoshone #DoreceAntonio #Environment #Climate #DirectAction #EV #EVs #Renewableenergy

#Paiute #Shoshone Court Date is Friday for Defending Massacre Site from #LithiumAmericas

May 31, 2023

Ox Sam Camp, #ThackerPass, Nevada: "I would like to ask all of you out there to kindly share this for my fellow sister warrior descendant, she stands here for her lineage through her great great grandfather Ox Sam whose family was massacred here at Thacker Pass also known as Peehee Muhu which is translated as Rotten Moon.
Due to recent events of her being served a TPO that is restricting her from accessing her Rights to her unmarked ancestral burial grounds and sacred site at Sentinel Rock by #LithiumAmerica Corporation. She now has to go back and forth to #Winnemucca 150 miles round trip where the court is being held and conducted which adds up a lot of miles and she is still looking for a Nevada attorney preferably pro indigenous rights for her legal issues filed by Lithium America a Canadian Based Corporation. So we're kindly asking you all to share these links to try and get her all the help we can do for her and to help her along as we continue to shed light and love on the current happenings at PeeHee Muhu Ox Sam Camp. (Newe Momokonee Nokutun)
Thank you for Very Much.

"The legal hearing for Dorece, Chuck, Paul, and Max is now scheduled for Friday (June 2nd) at 1:30 pm in Winnemucca. We're asking the court for an extension but it may not be granted. So that's our timeline for now. I'm not sure if supporters will be allowed in the courtroom, but if anyone wants to come out and support us feel free (although I wouldn't want to take people away from camp). For now, that's our deadline for legal representation. The situation is evolving. Thank you."

#SaveThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousNews #EnvironmentalRacism #OxSamCamp #Frontline #Biodiversity #Solidarity #Help #Nevada #Environment #Climate #DirectAction #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #LithiumNevada #LithiumMining #OpenPitMining #OpenPit #Mining

More at:
https://www.facebook.com/Drone.nation2017

Via Censored News:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/paiute-shoshone-court-date-is-friday.html

URGENT REQUEST: Looking for a lawyer in Nevada by May 29th to support Land / Water Defenders opposing the Thacker Pass mine. Details below — contact @oxsamcamp on Twitter/FB if you can support.

@cldc — can you help connect Ox Sam Camp with a lawyer in Nevada, or pass this on / amplify the request?

@Katiame

https://twitter.com/oxsamcamp/status/1661850370711371776

#OxSamCamp #Frontline #Biodiversity #Solidarity #Help #Request #Legal #Lawyer #Nevada #ThackerPass #Environment #Climate #DirectAction

#Paiute #Shoshone Protectors at Ox Sam Camp at #ThackerPass

By Ox Sam Camp Censored News, May 23, 2023

#NativeAmericans in #Nevada Are Praying Over Their Ancestors Graves. A Court Has Ordered Them to Leave or Be Arrested.

OROVADA, Nevada — For nearly two and a half years, local Native American tribes and leaders have been trying to stop the Thacker Pass lithium project, an open-pit mine that will destroy a sacred site. But despite lawsuits, rallies, regulatory hearings, and community organizing, Lithium Nevada Corporation has now begun construction of the mine at the place Paiutes call “Peehee Mu’huh,” or rotten moon.

"But the construction has not gone unopposed. On May 11th, Native Americans from the Fort McDermitt #Paiute-#Shoshone and other regional tribes set up a tipi at Thacker Pass and began prayers directly in the path of the construction of #LithiumNevada’s water pipeline. Groups of Native Americans and allies have blocked mine traffic from accessing portions of the construction site for over a week now."

#NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews #StopThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/paiute-shoshone-elders-standing-with-ox.html

Now! #Pauite Blocking #LithiumMine Construction at #ThackerPass, Nevada

Protect Peehee Mu'huh!

April 25, 2023

"#FortMcDermitt and #PyramidLake Pauite are offering prayers, and blocking construction by #LithiumAmericas of Canada at the Pauite Massacre Site in northern Nevada."

#NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews #StopThackerPass

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/04/now-paiute-blocking-lithium-mine.html