Protect Thacker Pass
We are an independent, grassroots collective of people resisting the Thacker Pass lithium mine. We work in solidarity with regional indigenous people. Thacker Pass, or Peehee mm’huh, is sacred land to the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone, and critical wildlife habitat. We invite all people with good hearts to help us stop the greenwashing!
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Urgent call for support
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 been a gathering...
A New Prayer Camp Emerges at Thacker Pass
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 massacre of...
Ox Sam Newe Momokonee Nokutun Camp
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 two nights blocking the...
Photos from Thacker Pass
