I was born and raised in Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Lots of Indians. I was reading last Thursday’s Pahrump Mirror an article about the Western Shoshone tribe protesting a mine. The white man has been stealing their land since the first settlers moved to North America in 1492.
Seems a gold mine owned by Barrick Gold Corporation is getting some flack. Their Cortez Hills Project in Northern Nevada is defacing a sacred site of the Shoshone tribe. The Shoshone don’t like it and have sued Barrick. The sacred site is called Mount Tenabo.
“We go to pray to our creator to give us strength to keep us going. How can we pray to our creator when the place is being blown up?” as Shoshone member Joyce McDade.
Good question. Look at it another way, what if gold mining outfits were blowing up the Catholic Church, or Baptist, or Presbyterian or any other? Are they any different from Mount Tenabo? [Pahrump Mirror, Thursday, January22, 2009, page 4.]
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