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 is today.
Ned Norris Jr. explains the significance of ancestral lands beyond current reservations.
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