Thursday, January 26, 2017

NYT: Tohono O'odham Nation obstacle for Trump's wall.

Here's an excerpt from the NYT peice.

"There’s a slight problem with President Trump’s Great Wall with Mexico: the Tohono O’odham Nation.The Native American tribe controls about 75 miles of the border of the United States and Mexico that slices through its sovereign territory. Tribal leaders are already saying that the wall is not going to divide its territory."source: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html

The article is not the result of new reporting by the NYT.  They rely on this story from Native News On Line:

http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tohono-oodham-nation-will-reject-wall-tribal-land-borders-mexico/

Nevertheless, it is clear that Trump's Wall will focus national attention on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

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