Protect Peehee Mu'huh

09/23/2026

07/27/2026

Our 6th Annual Commemoration is going to look a little different this year as we will not be gathering in person at Ni**le Rock. While this year’s commemoration may look different, our shared commitment to protecting and honoring the McDermitt Caldera remains as strong and powerful as ever. Read more on how you would like to participate from anywhere!😊

07/03/2026

You are welcomed to a local documentary screening of “The Caldera: A community and the future of lithium” by Sean Grasso, where it follows a rural community as it faces the development of lithium mines in Paiute and Shoshone ancestral homelands also known as the McDermitt Caldera. Please see flyer for further details. We hope to see you there!

06/12/2026

Global demand for minerals is rising fast. This is being driven by the shift to renewable energy and electric vehicles, and increasingly by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres. Minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt are essential for these technologies, but extrac...

06/11/2026

In an annual meeting on June 2, General Motors' board of directors recommended its stock owners vote against a measure to conduct a human rights report on the mining efforts in Northern Nevada.

The mining in question is happening near Thacker Pass, otherwise known as Peehee Mu'huh in the Northern Paiute language. It's located about 30 miles from the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone reservation.

The operation, owned by Lithium America, is projected to extract enough lithium from the ancestral land to produce roughly a million GM electric vehicles a year. An independent analysis found that nearly 80% of lithium reserves in the U.S. are within 35 miles of Native American reservations.

Only 15 percent of GM shareholders voted in favor of the measure, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. A majority vote wouldn't have guaranteed that GM would have launched the report.

“As women of faith, we feel that it is important to stand with people that have already been harmed, to call out current harms that may be happening to them, and just speak out for future generations,” said Sister Susan Francois of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, which put forth the measure and owns shares in GM. The earnings from those stocks fund the Sisters' mission to support those in need.

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05/18/2026

The Humboldt River starts in Northern Nevada. So does much of the pollution tied to Nevada’s mining industry. 🔍

For decades, environmental reports have documented heavy metals, arsenic, and industrial runoff entering waters connected to the Humboldt River Basin — the lifeline of rural Nevada and one of the most heavily exploited watersheds in the state.

Nevada’s massive gold mining operations generate billions of dollars in revenue every year. They also leave behind cyanide leach pads, waste rock piles, and contaminated groundwater that can persist for generations after the mines close.

State regulators issue permits. Mining companies negotiate mitigation plans. Deadlines pass. The contamination risks remain.

This is not a one-time disaster. It is a system Nevada was built around: extract the resource, pay the fine, expand the operation, repeat.

Meanwhile, communities across Elko, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, and Lovelock depend on the same watershed for ranching, wildlife habitat, and local water supplies.

The Humboldt River is not an industrial drain channel. But Nevada keeps treating it like one.

The gold leaves the state. The environmental cost stays behind.

Follow Life in Nevada for more stories they don’t want you to know.

05/12/2026

Gather with us tonight for an open community educational and listening session to discuss lithium projects in the McDermitt Caldera. McDermitt Community Hall doors open at 5:30pm, presentations from 6-7:30pm. Dinner and free raffle provided.

04/29/2026

Join Amnesty International and Western Shoshone land defenders in Ottawa for a panel on lithium mining, Indigenous rights, and the global energy transition.

04/29/2026

COMING THIS FRIDAY

An Evening with Wilson Wewa

Join us at the Klamath County Museum on Friday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. for a special presentation by Wilson Wewa, a Northern Paiute oral historian, author, and member of the tribal council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs.

"This will truly be a remarkable program," says museum curator Matthew Voelkel. "Mr. Wewa's knowledge is truly expansive. You won't want to miss it."

Wewa is a direct descendant of both Paulina and Weahwewa, Northern Paiute chiefs who led their people through the Snake War in eastern Oregon.

Though we encourage all who are able to attend this event in-person, it will also be livestreamed on the Klamath County Museum YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/live/PV05NHiIDss?si=LgAA98NiGb-32b39.

If you missed our first part of the Snake War Lecture Series, you can now view it on YouTube, as well.

We hope to see you there!

04/29/2026

Day Hinkey, a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe and plaintiff Great Basin Resource Watch, said in a news release that lithium exploration on his ancestral homelands would destroy the ecosystem, impact fresh spring water and lead to the loss of traditional medicine in the northern caldera.

“The knowledge I need to pass on to my children and their children is at high risk due to green colonialism,” he said. “Cultural genocide of the First Citizens of this land rages on.”

Environmental groups contend the project threatens habitat for sage grouse and other species, as well as water resources and local communities