I will cross

Yo No Creo en Fronteras

I do not Believe in Borders

Yo Cruzaré,Yo Cruzaré

"Everything in U.S. History is about the land-

who oversaw it and cultivated it; who invaded it and stole it; how it became a commodity. "
-from An Indigenous Peoples History of the US

The Tohono O'oodham indigenous people make-up the second largest native tribe in the U.S. by land holdings. The tribe consists of 34,000 memebers living in both Arizona and Mexico.


About 2,000 of the tribe's members live in Sonora, Mexico. The impending threat of a wall built on Tohono O'oodham land may sever tribal ties with Mexico.


"It will be in my backyard- the wall, and all it's political policies along with it." - Ali Jegk, Tohono Oo'dham Member

The Tohono O'oodham people say there is no word for 'wall' in their language.
They promise they will fight for each other, and they are not alone.
|This is a map of threatend Sacred Native American Land.|

Sacred Land

Sacred Land loss goes beyond land ownership, it is also an issue of
resource conservation and sustainability.

"Who is speaking for the waters of Earth? Who is speaking for the Fish,
for the Whales, for the Beavers, for our children?"
-Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations.

All entities of nature embody relationships that must be honored.
"Mitakuye Oyasin", or we are all related, is a sentiment shared by all Indigenous people. It is this sentiment that drives Native communites to engage holisticly with their environments. When indigenous land is under cession, it is both a battle for the people and for the sustainability of the land. Even in their languages, Native people sing, pray, and chant the land into their being. Native languages are highly descriptive of natural places and place an emphasis on verbs to describe a world in constant motion. In the Tohono O'oodham language there is no word for "wall", because walls represent a world in statis, a world where there is divide between land and body. Native philosophy teaches us that we are apart of nature, land becomes identity and those idenities must be defended.

How can we defend Sacred Land?

A good way to start is to educate yourself. Check out these sources used for this site:
Map of the Invasion of America, A closer look into the Tohono O'oodham Community,
An Indigenous Peoples History of US by Roxanne Dunbar and Native Science by Gregory Cajete.
Here's are resources to help you advocate for Native Rights: NAIC and ACLU