[News] Lithium Americas and United States -- Partners in Crime -- Prohibiting Access to Paiute Shoshone Sacred Place

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Lithium Americas and United States -- Partners in Crime -- Prohibiting
Access to Paiute Shoshone Sacred Place [image: image.png]

Courtesy photo Paiute Shoshone defender of the sacred

*The Lithium Lie: The Promotion of Lithium Mining as Clean Energy is the
Current Hoax: It is Profit for a Foreign Mining Company, Violating Federal
Laws*



*By Brenda Norrell - Censored News - June 14, 2023*
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/lithium-americas-and-united-states.html

OROVADA, Nevada -- Lithium Americas and the United States government --
Biden, Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and the BLM -- are violating federal laws
that protect Native American religious sites and burial places.

Access to Peez'uh, known as Sentinel Rock and Nipple Rock, is now blocked
with a metal fence and "No Trespassing" sign, as Lithium Americas tears
into the burial place of Paiute massacred here by U.S. soldiers in 1865.

Lithium Americas, a foreign company based in Vancouver, Canada, is now in
the process of serving Paiute and Shoshone who have been defending the
Paiute burial places with a federal complaint. The lawsuit was filed in
federal court, in the U.S. District Court in Winnemucca, Nevada, by the
corporate subsidiary Lithium Nevada Corporation.

"They are silencing us one by one, to not be a voice, they are silencing
our right to be sovereign, but as long as our ancestors lay upon the
ground, we will protect them!" said one of the Paiute Shoshone defenders.

Ox Sam Camp said, "Lithium Nevada is telling Paiute and Shoshone people
they are trespassing in their own land. Peez’uh (Nipple Rock / Sentinel
Butte) is an ancient sacred site of the Paiute and Shoshone."

"They have inviolable rights to hold ceremony here. Paiute and Shoshone
people have suffered two massacres here. This is hallowed ground."

During the raid on Ox Sam Camp, a young Dine' (Navajo) woman was terrorized
in transport when she was transferred on the highway into a pitch-black box
in the back of a pickup truck.

Lithium Americas violated federal laws by confiscating Eagle Feather and
the Ceremonial Staff at Ox Sam Camp.

Paiute Shoshone defenders said Lithium America jammed Ceremonial Items into
garbage bags.

Grandma Josephine, Vice Chair of the Native American Church retrieved these
after days of Lithium Americas security avoiding her.

Lithium Americas desecrated the Sacred Staff by sticking it upside down
along with the feathers at the top of it.

"The Humboldt County Sheriffs Department, Private Security Company Allied
Universal, Bureau of Land Management and Lithium Americas collusion
orchestrated this prolonged retrieval of her items to ensure the
fortification of the campsite, while expediting construction in the area,"
Paiute Shoshone said.
[image: image.png]

Photo by Jarrette Werk: The pickup shown is Allied Universal, the security
firm for Lithium Americas that confiscated the Ceremonial Staff and Eagle
Feathers in violation of federal laws. Allied disrespected the Staff and
Feathers by placing it upside down in a garbage bag in its security
building, before it was retrieved.


Urging all to come together to fight this injustice, and protect sacred
lands, Paiute Shoshone said the lithium promise of "green energy" is a
lithium lie.

"Lithium lies promise clean energy when it’s just the most profitable way
for the fossil fuel companies to profit, and eat away at our Mother Earth."

"Stand with Grandma, Support Ox Sam, Protect Sentinel Rock. We apologize
for the intensity of this video
<https://www.instagram.com/tv/CtShaoJK6_4/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D> and
the grandmas will be meeting to pray over and cedar and conduct proper
protocols for the prayer instruments and each other and this land, that
holds the bones of those who passed in 1865 Thacker Pass Massacre."
[image: image.png]


https://www.instagram.com/tv/CtShaoJK6_4/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D
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