Indigenous-led Prayer Run from Campbell Ranch to Anaconda Overlook: Saturday, October 24, 2026

Yerington NV – October 22, 2026

From:

Prayer Horse Inc.
Taboosi Dikudu NO’Obatu Numma Cooperative
Great Basin Resource Watch

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE on Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Prayer Run to Stop the Anaconda Land Sale

Indigenous-led event to protect Paiute ancestral lands with Indigenous prayers and remember the Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka’s work in the local area.

Date: Saturday, October 24 2026

Where: Yerington, Anaconda Mine site – overflow ponds on Burch Drive  (see map link below)

When: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

The press event begins at 10 AM at the Anaconda site – overflow ponds on Burch Drive

Event will include:

• * Opening Prayer
• * Land Acknowledgment
• * Indigenous Speakers from Yerington and Walker River
• * Great Basin Resource Watch Speaker
• * Native Drumming and song
• * The Prayer Run begins at the tribal gym at 8 am: at 171 Campbell Lane, Yerington
• * The Press Event begins at 10am: at the Anaconda site – overflow ponds on Burch Drive

Prayer Horse Inc and Taboosi Dikudu No’Obatu Numma Cooperative will host an 8 mile spiritual relay run to bring continued prayers and demonstrate solidarity for the injunction against the Anaconda Land Sale and to support the Yerington Paiute Tribe’s Social Powwow, also being held that day. See map of the route.

BLM is proposing to sell over 2,062 acres of public land within and around the Anaconda Copper Mine Superfund site for free, including all of the mineral estate and mineral values, to Atlantic Richfield Company (ARC). This would remove an important level of public oversight.

On July 16 2026, the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada issued an injunction, preventing the federal government’s sale of over 2,062 acres of public lands and minerals to a multi-national company, ruling that the federal Interior Department’s (Bureau of Land Management) proposed sale violated numerous federal laws designed to protect the public interest. The injunction was requested by Great Basin Resource Watch (GBRW), Prayer Horse Inc. (PHI) and Taboosi Dikudu NO’Obatu Numma Cooperative (TDNONC). The sale was slated to occur any time after July 27, 2026.

For background see July 17 2026 Media Release

Press event will be no more than an hour and speakers will be available for interview afterwards.

CONTACTS

Joshua Dini: PHI Board member – Prayerider-initc@proton.me – (775) 666-0621

Johanna Emm: TDNONC Cooperative Director – TDNONC@outlook.com – (775) 526-8903

Kelly Fuller: GBRW Great Basin Resource Watch – Mining Justice Organizer – kelly@gbrw.org