In the time since I visited #Peeheemu’huh a few months back with my father, #LakotaLaw co-director and lead counsel #ChaseIronEyes, police have made several arrests related to activism resisting the mine. The #OxSamCamp, named after one of the few to survive the 1865 massacre, is an Indigenous-led prayer camp, which serves as the base camp for the #resistance.

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https://www.oxsam.org/

and enlisting local law enforcement to keep prayerful protests away. Meanwhile, the bulldozers keep running roughshod over sacred grounds where the bones of #Paiute, #Shoshone, and #Washoe ancestors lie.

It's that part — the failure to acknowledge the terrible things that happened at #PeeheeMu'Huh more than a century and a half ago and properly account for them in the mine's review process — which rests at the heart of the #lawsuit brought by three #NevadaTribes.

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