Border tribes deserve more than rhetoric
By Hon’mana Seukteoma
For the last four years, Indigenous tribes along the U.S.-Mexico border have been in a tireless fight to protect our homelands and our people from the unlawful construction of the border wall.
We watched in horror as construction crews dynamited our ancestors’ gravesites, chopped ceremonial plants to bits and cleaved our sacred lands in two with a deadly mass of metal.
Now that Donald Trump is no longer president and President Biden has halted wall construction, we must consider how to right these wrongs, heal the land and compensate communities and tribal nations like my own for…
Border wall construction is destroying the Sonoran Desert’s most sacred spring
Growing up as a Tohono O’odham woman on my ancestral homelands taught me one thing above all: Take care of the land and the land will take care of you.
When the federal government ramped up border-wall construction in Arizona, I knew I had to fight for my homelands, which are split in half by the U.S-Mexico border. I knew that meant activating my community, facing construction workers and opposing the U.S. Border Patrol and its long history of brutalizing O’odham tribal members.
Border-wall construction has brought devastation to the land, the wildlife, the water and the people. It’s wiping…
Hon'mana Seukteoma
Tohono O’odham | Hopi | Navajo. Borderlands Creative Media Intern with the Center for Biological Diversity.
