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Indigenous activists protest wall contractor in Coolidge
https://www.azpm.org/p/home-articles-news/2020/8/26/179241-indigenous-activists-protest-wall-contractor-subsidiary-in-coolidge/About a dozen Indigenous protesters gathered this morning at the Coolidge facility of fabrication company Stinger Bridge and Iron to condemn ongoing construction of the Trump administration’s border wall on ancestral Indigenous land in Arizona.
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“You did not have permission to demolition our sacred sites,” said one protester with family from both Hia-Ced O’odham and Tohono O’odham tribes. “You did not have permission to disturb our ancestors’ bones. You did not have permission to take our water.”
The speaker said holding the protest at Stinger was a way to demonstrate the breadth of ancestral O’odham territory and the interconnectivity of the three tribes that have always lived within it.
“They need to remember and know that this [Coolidge] is Akimel territory. Down the road four miles is the Casa Grande ruins, where the Hohokam, our ancestors, resided,” she said. “The lands were once abundantly occupied by O’odham, same as southwest Tucson, same as Ajo, Arizona, same as Quitobaquito and Sonoyta. Before the border, we had connections there [in Mexico.]”
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“You did not have permission to demolition our sacred sites,” said one protester with family from both Hia-Ced O’odham and Tohono O’odham tribes. “You did not have permission to disturb our ancestors’ bones. You did not have permission to take our water.”
The speaker said holding the protest at Stinger was a way to demonstrate the breadth of ancestral O’odham territory and the interconnectivity of the three tribes that have always lived within it.
“They need to remember and know that this [Coolidge] is Akimel territory. Down the road four miles is the Casa Grande ruins, where the Hohokam, our ancestors, resided,” she said. “The lands were once abundantly occupied by O’odham, same as southwest Tucson, same as Ajo, Arizona, same as Quitobaquito and Sonoyta. Before the border, we had connections there [in Mexico.]”
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