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....
by Will Falk | May 11, 2023 | Reflection
Her Missing Piece, by Will Falk The sky carefully drawsthe wet to his lover’s surfacebefore his rain gently entersher soil and trees grow withthese rhythms of water and dirt. The sun is utterly dependable.He burns for the solar system,his mistress, and fills his...
by Will Falk | May 8, 2023 | Reflection
Transfigure This(after John O’Donohue) by Will Falk You told me totransfigure the painas the unleaded liquidremains of corpses combustedand dragged me acrossasphalt lacerationsslashed across the Earth’s skin. I wanted to.I sat down just nowto do exactly that. Then I...
by Will Falk | May 4, 2023 | Reflection
My love is a mountain pass. Older than me, and far more experienced, I did not know who wooed who, or why. When she looked at me with great basin starlight, that very first night, it was love at first sight. I never needed more than to merely brush my tender way...
by Protect Thacker Pass | May 1, 2023 | Press
Dean Barlese, Pyramid Lake Paiute-Shoshone, blocking construction at Thacker Pass on April 25, 2023 by Ken Cosentino for Last Real Indians, April 26, 2023 On Tuesday, April 25th, a group of protestors successfully disrupted a lithium mining project at Thacker Pass in...
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