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<h3 style="margin-top:3em"><font size="4">Lithium Americas and United States -- Partners in Crime -- Prohibiting Access to Paiute Shoshone Sacred Place</font></h3>
<img src="cid:ii_lixim33y0" alt="image.png" width="421" height="281"><br><p><font size="1">Courtesy photo Paiute Shoshone defender of the sacred</font></p><p><b>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</b></p><p><b> </b><br><b>By Brenda Norrell - Censored News - June 14, 2023<br></b><font size="1"><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/lithium-americas-and-united-states.html">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/06/lithium-americas-and-united-states.html</a></font><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>"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.<br><br>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."<br><br>"They
have inviolable rights to hold ceremony here. Paiute and Shoshone
people have suffered two massacres here. This is hallowed ground."<br><br>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.<br><br>Lithium Americas violated federal laws by confiscating Eagle Feather and the Ceremonial Staff at Ox Sam Camp.<br><br>Paiute Shoshone defenders said Lithium America jammed Ceremonial Items into garbage bags.<br><br>Grandma
Josephine, Vice Chair of the Native American Church retrieved these
after days of Lithium Americas security avoiding her.<br><br>Lithium Americas desecrated the Sacred Staff by sticking it upside down along with the feathers at the top of it.<br><br>"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.<br></p><img src="cid:ii_lixiop6q2" alt="image.png" width="421" height="281"><br><p><font size="1">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.</font></p><p><br>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.<br><br>"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."<br><br>"Stand with Grandma, Support Ox Sam, Protect Sentinel Rock. We apologize for the intensity of this <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CtShaoJK6_4/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D">video</a>
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."</p><img src="cid:ii_lixinitl1" alt="image.png" width="411" height="235"><br><br><p><br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CtShaoJK6_4/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D">https://www.instagram.com/tv/CtShaoJK6_4/?igshid=NzJjY2FjNWJiZg%3D%3D</a></p>
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