There is a proposed Lithium mine by Lithium Nevada/Lithium Americas at Thacker Pass, NV or better known as Peehee Mu'huh (Rotten Moon) by the Paiute and Shoshone people. The mine is 15 miles from the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes reservation border. Since time immemorial, the Fort McDermitt Tribe and surrounding tribes practice a reciprocal relationship with the land, however, the mine will significantly disrupt the way of life and rights to practice traditions generation after generation.

Despite Lithium Nevada?s characterization of the mine as ?green,? the company estimates that it will produce 152,703 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year. The water, air, land, wildlife, plants, and everything in between will all pay the ultimate price for lithium powered batteries for electric vehicles and so called ?clean energy.? In full operation, the mine plans to use 1.7 billion gallons of water per year in a hydrographic basin that is already over allocated by 30,271 AFA. 680,000 tons of sulfur will be burned per year. 2900 tons of Sulfuric Acid will be produced per day at the onsite Sulfuric Acid Plant. The mine will leach uranium, antimony, sulfuric acid, aluminum, arsenic, and sulfur dioxide and leave radioactive waste. Lithium Nevada wants to turn Thacker Pass into a toxic wasteland by contamination of water, air, irreparable damage to the land and culturally important animals, medicines, and first foods ultimately guilty of Cultural Genocide to the Paiute and Shoshone people.

Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu (People of Red Mountain) are a group of Fort McDermitt tribal descendants that deeply oppose the Lithium mines threatening homelands. Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu continue to practice traditions, language, hunting and gathering of first foods, medicines, and materials. They enjoy teaching new generations traditional ways. For many Native people, ceremonies, teachings, culture, and life path are connected to the land, so by protecting the land, you protect the People. Peehee Mu'huh has sacred burial sites and prohibit the desecration of these sacred sites. There were two massacres at Peehee Mu?huh. One oral history massacre and a massacre of women and children on September 12, 1865. There are 923 cultural sites at Peehee Mu?huh, 56 of them are eligible for the National Register of Historical Places.

Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu are deeply concerned that the mine will threaten the community with man camps and large labor forces which are correlated to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Girls and Two Spirit (MMIWG2S). This is an ongoing problem that brings trauma to Native communities. It is stated in the FEIS, Lithium Nevada will have 1,250 workers at the mine. Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu and allies will no longer witness the contamination and rape of our lands and to our people.

Help protect Peehee Mu?huh / Thacker Pass, sacred land of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and other tribes, which is imminently threatened by an open-pit lithium mine. Stand in solidarity with People of Red Mountain ? Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu against the destruction of sacred land.