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Tribal Members Proven Right as Border Wall Contractors Uproot Ancestors’ Remains
“Who knows what more will come up,” said a Hia-Ced O’odham elder. “They’re going to find remains wherever they dig.”
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Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning. The Trump administration was racing to erect a second border wall across Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, southwest of Tucson. If the bulldozers came, she said, they were bound to disturb the final resting places of her family and Hia-Ced O’odham tribal ancestors. “People used to live here…
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