The Public Record
Regardless of whether or not these sites are on or off the Tohono O'odham Nation, we are on this reservation not because we wanted to be on this reservation, but our ancestral lands extended well beyond where our current reservation land…
It is hard to see the blasting that you showed on the video today because I know in my heart and what our elders have told us and what we have learned that that area is home to our ancestors.
We will never agree to a wall that is being built. We will never agree to what is being built now and this desecration of our sacred sites.
A wall is extremely expensive for the American taxpayer, is ineffective in remote geographic areas like ours, and is highly destructive to the religious, cultural and environmental resources on which our members rely and which make our…
We've historically lived in this area from time immemorial. We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards. It would have the same…
There have been desecrations. There has been blasting. There have been artifacts. There have been remains that have been ruined and forever lost.
That is not consultation. That is not government-to-government consultation.
Look at the reaction when Notre Dame burned down. You feel an emotional connection to that, even if you're not Catholic.
It's time to rethink how we do border and push for a new vision that introduces a 21st century border governance model that expands public safety to all, creates a welcoming system for newcomers and residents, and protects human rights and…
Border communities are not over-run horrifying, dangerous war zones. They are safe. They are quiet.
Fragments of human remains were observed in the tire tracks of the heavy construction equipment. Barriers of the border road now cross the site. Imagine a bulldozer parking in your family graveyard turning up bones.
The idea that we need to suspend the rule of law, and that only our safe communities get the rule of law suspended is, frankly, offensive to many people that I know.