Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful st | dG1fSmFmWkdDZkRLeXM

Transcript

00:00 (dramatic music)

00:01 - So we're doing a story about Black Bear Pass

00:04 and indigenous opposition to it.

00:06 - And that's our ancestral homeland.

00:10 That's our bones and our blood deep, deep in that soil.

00:14 - As Native Americans been here since time immemorial,

00:19 it was time for us to take our land back

00:21 and go dig somewhere else.

00:22 - We're still in the Indian moors.

00:25 I made that statement before too.

00:29 - It's a coverup.

00:30 It's been a coverup and they're closing their eyes to it.

00:34 This is not allegedly.

00:35 This is not lying.

00:38 I mean, come on.

00:39 - That's something you can ask the boys here in Nevada.

00:45 - Civil something.

00:46 Trespassing.

00:48 And something about disobedience.

00:50 - And I'm standing here because our ancestors are here.

00:56 We gotta defend them.

00:57 We gotta protect them.

00:58 (dramatic music)

01:01 - I'd give my life to protect this place.

01:03 - And then this is where the missing

01:06 and murdered indigenous people come in.

01:08 And you have to hire a thousand men

01:11 to build a lithium mine.

01:13 - We've gone beyond where we can come back.

01:16 - You cannot mine your way out of a climate crisis.

01:23 You just can't do that.

01:24 - You can't destroy the earth to save the earth.

01:26 (dramatic music)

01:29 - You feel the pain that's here.

01:48 (dramatic music)

01:55 (drumming)

01:57 (drumming)