by Protect Thacker Pass | Jun 19, 2023 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims to Stop Tribal Members and Allies from Praying at Sacred Site June 19, 2023 RENO, NV — Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect Thacker Pass and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass lithium...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jun 10, 2023 | Reflection, Related Media
Lithium Americas Corporation (LAC), the company whose subsidiary Lithium Nevada Corporation (LNC) is currently destroying Thacker Pass by building a massive open-pit lithium mine, has another subsidiary Minera Exar SA, a joint venture of LAC, Ganfeng Lithium (a...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jun 9, 2023 | Press Releases, Resistance Updates
We are reposting the following two press releases from Ox Sam Camp, published June 8 and June 7, 2023. The fight continues at Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu’huh. If you want to support the ongoing lawsuit, and help us support legal defense of Protect Thacker Pass and...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 20, 2023 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Native Americans in Nevada Are Praying Over Their Ancestors Graves. A Court Has Ordered Them to Leave or Be Arrested. OROVADA, NV — For nearly two and a half years, local Native American tribes and leaders have been trying to stop the Thacker...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 18, 2023 | Resistance Updates
For two years, Native American tribes have been fighting to protect a sacred site in Nevada threatened by a massive open-pit mining project approved in the last days of the Trump Administration. Thacker Pass, known as “Peehee Mu’huh” in Paiute, has...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 15, 2023 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
by Paul Cienfuegos, Founding Director, Community Rights US Last Thursday, May 11th, the next nationally significant Standing-Rock-like prayer and action camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada (Pee’hee Mu’huh in the Paiute language meaning “rotten moon” named for the...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 13, 2023 | Resistance Updates
The stars shone bright last night above the Ox Sam Newe Momokonee Nokutun (“Indigenous Women’s Camp”) at Peehee Mu’huh, also known as Thacker Pass, in Northern Nevada, where a tipi has been erected and ceremony has been ongoing for two days and...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 12, 2023 | Project updates
Native elders and supporters continue to defend the land and protect the water this morning at Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu’huh. You can find livestreams and videos from today’s action:Bethany Sam’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bethany.samLast...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 11, 2023 | Project updates
Most of the livestreams from today’s action at Peehee Mu’huh / Thacker Pass are going out to Facebook. We will work to get these uploaded on YouTube when we can. You can access livestreams at the following pages on Facebook: Bethany Sam (Reno-Sparks Indian...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 11, 2023 | Project updates
A group of Native American protesters seeking to protect land that is sacred to them have gathered this morning for a second time to block construction and say prayers for the water, the land, and future generations at Peehee Mu’huh, also known as Thacker Pass....
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