Monument Hill, where he said explosions are now occurring, is a site where members of the Tohono O’odham Nation have buried members of opposing tribes. This week, Trump blew up a sacred Native American hill on public land to build his racist wall. “I strongly urge DHS to conduct meaningful government-to-government consultation with the Tohono O’odham Nation about the DHS’s planned border wall construction.”ADADBut Grijalva said no such consultation has taken place. “There has been no consultation with the nation,” Grijalva told CBS News. “In addition to the sacred sites like Quitobaquito Springs, the entire monument is ancestral lands.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2020 21:15 UTC