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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Great news!
Great news! The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribal Council accepted a petition filed by tribal members today and agreed to withdraw from a Project Engagement Agreement the previous tribal council had signed with Lithium Nevada for the proposed Thacker Pass open...
The conflicting questions that #ProtectThackerPass sparks for environmentalists
By Kamea Chayne, March 25, 2021 Are we okay with living ecosystems and mountaintops being blown up—so long as it's done for extracting lithium instead of coal? As the largest known lithium reserve in the United States, Thacker Pass, a part of the ancestral lands of...
The Potato Bug and The World We Used to Live In
Thacker Pass remembers the world we used to live in. She murmurs these memories in the long strides and white haunches of mule deer fleeing the scents of humans over the sage. She sends her reminiscences in sudden March snow squalls on otherwise sunny days. She...
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