Western Shoshone Defense Project
Crescent Valley, NV,
USA
www.wsdp.org
The Western Shoshone Defense Project is a grassroots Native American group dedicated to protecting the land rights and preserving the homelands of the Western Shoshone people. Within the traditional territory of the Western Shoshone are scores of gold mines, causing economic dislocation, destruction of cultural sites, and the desecration of land and water. The Defense Project is working to prevent the development of new mines in environmentally and culturally sensitive areas, and to hold government agencies accountable for the enforcement of environmental regulations for existing mines.
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