“We want to protect our Indigenous land in Nevada”

“We want to protect our Indigenous land in Nevada”

Fermina Stevens, 57, is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. She was born and raised in Elko, Nevada, USA. Nevada’s stunning landscape of mountain ranges and valleys has been home to Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years. As Executive Director of the Western Shoshone Defense Project, Fermina works to defend her ancestral lands from the negative impacts of mining, which started over 200 years ago. Here she tells Amnesty Internat…