In Honor of Western Shoshone Elder Carrie Dann – She passed on January 2, 2021
For over 40 years the Dann Sisters were keeping Shoshone tradition and land rights alive against formidable opposition: Expanding gold mines, confiscation of their horses and cattle by armed federal agents and nuclear testing and waste storage.
Christopher Sewall was Environmental Program Director of the Western Shoshone Defense Project from 1992-2005. He spoke at the entrance to the Nevada Test site at the Shoshone peace and anti nuclear gathering in May 2003 – unraveling the broken Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863.
We were broadcasting him on a micro power radio station LIVE into the high security area of the test site that was then administered by the Bechtel corporation and guarded by the Wackenhuts. The Western Shoshone had issued us a license to broadcast – bypassing the FCC.
Our Land, Our Life is a documentary film by Beth and George Gage. Much of it filmed on the Dann Ranch where chickens and dogs have free run of the house and trucks filled with hay are always moving to feed the cattle and horses.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:57 — 39.8MB)
