There is a 'white gold' rush happening in that has seen more than 17,000 placer claims on lithium, but about three-quarters of the sites are on tribal lands and Native Americans fear their ancestral homelands will be turned 'into a sacrifice zone for electric car batteries.'One site in particular, Thacker Pass, is expected to produce at least 80,000 tons of the soft metal each year.This land, however, is where dozens of Native American were massacre in 1865 and Shelley Harjo, a Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribe member, the project 'will be the biggest desecration and rape of a known Native American massacre site in our area.'
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