Thacker Pass: There and Back Again, or
Summons to an Unknown Desert
Summons to an Unknown Desert
I spent several weeks during 2021 in Nevada at Thacker Pass, fighting a lithium mine.
Reflecting on this time—nearly two years after my first visit to Peehee mu' huh (as the pass is named in Paiute)—I find that it's hard to put words
around everything that is happening there. This is apparently not a problem I had at the time, because I wrote all of the following essays:
- 10/19/2021 Go Down Swinging (Dark Mountain #20)
- 4/2/2021 How Would You Know? (protectthackerpass.org)
- 4/16/2021 If we cannot hold the pass (counterpunch.com)
- 4/27/2021 Can the Resilience Movement Learn from Thacker Pass? (www.resilience.org)
- 6/4/2021 Finding Ourselves at Peehee mu'huh: an interview with Daranda Hinkey (www.counterpunch.org)
"There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places." —Wendell Berry