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Related: About this forumBorder Wall Would Cleave Tribe, and Its Connection to Ancestral Land
Barriers on the Mexican border along the Tohono Oodham Nations reservation in Arizona.
SAN MIGUEL, Ariz. The phone calls started almost as soon as President Trump signed his executive order, making official his pledge to build a wall to separate the United States from Mexico.
Verlon M. Jose, vice chairman of the Tohono Oodham Nation, whose reservation extends along 62 miles of the border, heard from people he knew and those he had never heard of. All of them were outraged and offered to throw their bodies, Standing Rock-style, in the way of any construction that would separate the tribes people on the north side of the border and the south side, where they live in six villages within the boundaries of the groups ancestral lands.
If someone came into your house and built a wall in your living room, tell me, how would you feel about that? Mr. Jose asked in an interview last week. He spread his arms, as if embracing the ground that stretched before him, a rugged expanse of crackled dirt speckled in saguaros, and said, This is our home.
Mr. Trumps plan to build a 1,954-mile wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico will have to overcome the fury of political opponents and numerous financial, logistical and physical obstacles, like towering mountain ranges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/us/border-wall-tribe.html
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Border Wall Would Cleave Tribe, and Its Connection to Ancestral Land (Original Post)
Ptah
Feb 2017
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TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)1. These hate-filled republican $hitbags don't care
That Native Americans can't honor their ancestors! No other religion matters but their own...
riversedge
(70,182 posts)2. each day gets worse for many.
joet67
(624 posts)3. Now that we are just ignoring treaties with the Native Americans, I can only assume
this will not matter to the PTB.