The Manh Choh gold mine was sold to the public as progress.
To us — it looks like the oldest story in America:

Gold extracted.
Tribes erased.
And truth buried under asphalt.

Located near Tetlin, Alaska, the Manh Choh mine is a joint venture between Kinross Gold Corporation and Contango ORE — two companies mining on Indigenous land through a lease signed in silence, without community consent, and in violation of tribal and corporate law.

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What’s Wrong with This Project?

• The land was wrongfully transferred in 1996.

• The mining lease was signed behind closed doors in 2008.

• The mine is hauling ore 250 miles across Alaska’s highways —
  but MSHA refuses to investigate fatalities tied to the project.

• Tribal voices were overruled, restructured, and silenced.

• State and federal regulators looked the other way.

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What SPIRIT Is Doing:

✅ We filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Alaska.
✅ We documented state interference with mine safety enforcement.
✅ We exposed a nationwide pattern of MSHA suppression.
✅ We’re building the record they thought would never exist.

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This isn’t just about land — it’s about what kind of future we’re willing to accept.

“In 2025, we still have Corporate Neanderthals erasing tribes for ore and calling it progress.
The more we evolve, the more we prove we haven’t.
And the cost is always human.”
— Kevin Gunter, Founder of SPIRIT