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The Arizona Tribe That’s Been Dragged Back Into Trump’s Border Wars

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On April 28, Chairman Verlon Jose of the Tohono O’odham Nation received a message from a representative of the Department of Homeland Security. A contractor working on behalf of DHS to construct an additional border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border had destroyed part of a site sacred to the Tohono O’odham— Las Playas Intaglio , an archeological site featuring art engraved in the earth in the shape of a fish ( comparable to the Nazca Lines in Peru). Angered, Jose told media that day : “This was a devastating and entirely avoidable loss. There is nothing more important than our history, which is what makes us who we are as O’odham. This site was also an irreplaceable piece of the United States’ history, one none of us can ever get back.” Now the Tohono O’odham Nation finds its lands at the center of a dispute with the Trump administration over the building of new segments of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. As part of the Trump administration’s attempt to enforce mass deportations, the Depa

First report: Tohono O'odham Nation warns federal contractors against trespassing for border wall construction — 12news.com, 3d