U.S. District Court-Reno will rule on Western Shoshones case against Canada's Barrick Gold Corporation and the U.S. Department of Interior

On 12 November 2008 the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management published a Record of Decision and approved a Plan of Operation for a large gold extraction operation on Mt. Tenabo in Nevada.  In response Western Shoshone bands have filed a complaint pleading for relief in the U.S. District Court-Reno. The Shoshone, which practice a land-based religion, alledge that Mt. Tenabo is a sacred religious site. Nevada's economy is experiencing a downturn and with gaming revenues down the new mining operation may seem like good news to many people in Nevada and Washintgon, D.C.

In October 2008 the U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management published in the Federal Register the Notice of Availability in accrodance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq).

Notice of Availability

In November 2008 the U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management published a Record of Decision permitting the opening for one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States.   

Record of Decision and Plan of Operation Approval

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has published two papers relevant to indigenous peoples under the heading of "Identities, Conflict and Cohesion".

The papers are:
Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State

Transnational Governmentality and Resource Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations, Multinational Institutions and the State.

Both papers can bee downloaded from the UNRISD website.
Download is free, but requires user registration.