Prayer Horse Ride’s third ride begins on March 17
Prayer Horse Ride begins March 17-26 from Schurz through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth / Nixon, Lovelock, Orovada and ends in Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass).
SCHURZ – Prayer Horse Ride begins March 17-26 from Schurz through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth / Nixon, Lovelock, Orovada and ends in Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass).
The ride is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock. It is to raise awareness about lithium mining in McDermitt Caldera AND also copper mining in the Pine Nut Hills in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women / People (MMIW/P) and revitalizing cultural identity, languages and lifeways in indigenous communities.
“We do this prayer ride to reconnect our way of life,” said Josh Dini Sr., a member of Walker River Paiute Tribe, water protector and Prayer Horse Rider, and AIMNNV member.
Indigenous communities in the Great Basin and McDeritt Caldera are experiencing fast-tracked mining and industrial development to support "green energy,” ride organizers said. “They are threatened by ecologically and sociologically destructive resource extraction processes in proximity to communities, reservations, land trusts and sacred sites.”
“Copper mining in our Pine Nut Hills takes away our knowledge and identity of who we are,” Dini said.“We ride in honor of the people on the land before extraction industries, past, present and future. We are Paiute and Shoshone, allied with many of the federally recognized tribes in Nevada.”
Source: Prayer Horse Ride
