Over
a Decade of Resistance - Dedicated to Breaking the Nuclear Chain Shundahai is a Newe (Western Shoshone) word meaning "Peace
and Harmony with all Creation"
Our
Founder, Corbin Harney
(March 24, 1920 - July 10, 2007), Western Shoshone Spiritual
Leader, last word's . "We are one people. We
cannot separate ourselves now. There are many good things
to be done for our people and for the world. It is important
to let things be good and it is important to teach the
younger generation, so that things are not lost."
This site is dedicated to Corbin Harney and his vision
for the Newe (Western Shoshone people)
Brothers
& Sisters of Shundahai Network,
With the New Hopes of
the President Obama administration, coming into office.
We need to keep the pressure on stop and development
on new Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants. Almost every
day there is a new leak found in nuclear reactors. Also
every day another Atomic Veteran passes with out any
government compensation.
Currently,
we are in the process of revising our Web site,under
the guidance of the Board of Directors (BOD)
Shundahai Network is in the process of returning
to Las Vegas to continue to carry out Corbin Haney's visionto "Shut the Test Site Down" and to have
it cleaned up and returned to the original caretakers,
the Newe People, now called the Western Shoshone People.
There may be a broken link or a missing photo but we
are fixing it as fast as we can. Feel free to email
me, But please report errors to me at the above
address until, things are straighten out,thanks. Be
sure to include the URL, the web page address at the
top of your browser( it will start out with
http://shundahai.org/ and the rest of the address) .
Remember
as Corbin said "We are all one People, let's
put our heads together to solve problems"
News
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You can use PayPal in left column, if you wish.
Shundahai
Co-founder dicusses CTB
Mateo Peixinho and Barack Obamo,
Mateo gave him a copy of Corbin Harney's book "The
Way It Is" and explained who Corbin is and that
he had worked with him on trying to achieve Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty. The book was a signed copy and it made
us cry to give it up, but we thought that's what Corbin
would want. Corbin was a spiritual leader of the Western
Shoshone people and later in life he dedicated himself to
ending nuclear testing and stopping the Yucca Mountain project.
Corbin said that" the nuclear contamination was shortening
the life of all the living things" .
President’s
course leaves question open: Is it dead? Despite
his promise, licensing process goes on
Washington — Faced with a Nevada campaign promise
to stop Yucca Mountain but the scientific and legal complexity
of abruptly ending the massive project, President Barack
Obama made a decision that should surprise no one following
his presidency.
Disclosure
of tribal visitors to Nevada mine ordered
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has ordered opponents of Barrick
Gold of North America’s huge gold mine project at a northern
Nevada mountain to list Western Shoshone tribal members
who have visited the site for religious purposes.
300
homes destroyed near Barrick’s Porgera mine
A violent eviction in Papua New Guinea has left more than
1000 indigenous people homeless.
On April 27, more than 300 homes were burned to the ground
in a violent eviction of indigenous landowners near Barrick
Gold’s Porgera open pit gold mine in Papua New Guinea.
Obama
pledges new US relations with Europe
He opened his appearance with a 25-minute prepared speech
in which he set a dramatic, long-term goal of "a world
without nuclear weapons.
Obama
Rejects
Nuclear Waste Site After 20-Year Fight,
President Barack Obama won’t let nuclear
waste be stored at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, rejecting the
project after 20 years of planning at a cost of at least
$9 billion. Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu “have
been emphatic that nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain
is not an option, period,”
Western
Shoshone activist urges
attention to mining’s destruction of tribal heritage Carrie Dann, iconic voice for Western Shoshone traditionalists,
told an audience that Mount Tenabo , but it is central to
tribal religious practices and “a lot of our creation stories
stem from there.”
On
June 10, 2009, at 9:30 am, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco will hear oral argument in the case of
South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, et al, v. Department
of Interior. The case involves the federal court
challenge by the South Fork Band Council, the Te-Moak Tribe
of Western Shoshone, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, Western
Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin Resource Watch,
of the U.S. BLM’s approval of the massive Cortez Hills
gold mine on Mt. Tenabo, a landscape of significant religious
importance to many Western Shoshone. The Ninth Circuit will
hear arguments by the attorneys for the Tribes, the federal
government, and Barrick Gold Corp, the world’s largest
gold mining company and the proponent of the Cortez Hills
Project. The Tribes are appealing the denial of their motion
for a preliminary injunction to stop the mine. That motion
was denied by federal judge Larry Hicks in Reno back in
January. Counsel for the Tribes, Roger Flynn of the Colorado-based
Western Mining Action Project, will argue the case for the
Tribes.
Western
Shoshone gather at NV mountain being mined
Western Shoshone consider Mount Tenabo in northeastern Nevada
a sacred landmark. “This is where my family comes from,
and it’s important to preserve the beauty and sacredness
and spiritual life around this mountain,” Mary Gibson, a
Western Shoshone grandmother.
Shundahai
Network was originally formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test
Site 10 years ago in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear
disarmament activists, at the request of Corbin
Harney, a Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader. We have
evolved into an international network of activists and
organizations bridging the gap between the environmental,
peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities.
Our
staff and volunteers (volunteers
are always needed) work on a wide range of community
outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through
our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train
activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent
direct action to generate public awareness and apply political
pressure on nuclear and indigenous rights issues.
Our
Mission Statement "Shundahai Network is
a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear
chain by building alliances with indigenous communities
and environmental, peace and human rights movements. We
seek to abolish all nuclear weapons and an end to nuclear
testing. We advocate phasing out nuclear energy and ending
the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste. We promote
the principles of Environmental Justice and strive to
insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement
to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies.
All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values
of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies
and nonviolent direct action."
To address these critical issues Shundahai Network has
developed three main Programs:
Environmental
Justice Now, supports Corbin Harney and assists
indigenous communities affected by nuclear issues in having
their voices heard on the national level. Nuclear
Free Great Basin, links the dumping and transportation
of nuclear waste in the Great Basin bio-region. This campaign
is dedicated to stopping the Skull Valley & Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Waste Projects.
Action
for Nuclear Abolition, working for complete nuclear
disarmament and closure of the Nevada Test Site. Along with
our ongoing work in building alliances with affected communities,
organizing and supporting conferences, workshops, speeches,
rallies, and direct actions, we also mobilize internationally
to bring activists to Shut Down the Nevada Test Site.
Shundahai
Network opposes all nuclear weapons research,
development, testing and production. We actively seek to
close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs
except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup.
Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping
on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the
proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at Yucca Mountain
and Skull Valley Reservation. We work to educate about the
dangers of radioactive waste transportation and promote
a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and
renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes
and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations,
workshops and conferences.
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We
are currently forming out own 501(c)3, so our needs for
financial support, can be met and we can get tax deductible
monies from the public and founders. If you wish to help
please donate
today. We are going to make possible the change that we
seek for Indigenous natives (Western Shoshone). They rightfully
own the land on which the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain
(a very sacred space for the Newe people since before
recorded history, passed down through oral history) through
the "Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863". Any amount
is a lot at this point for us, please help, us help you.
Shundahai,
Shundahai Board of Directors, volunteers and the Western
Shoshone people (Newe- which means the people)
PS:
Here is a jolt of reality, a message from Corbin which
I just found the other day, Listen to what Corbin has
to say about the Radio station . Do you have time? If
you do considering help Shundahai Network as a volunteer.
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