The Tohono O’odham tribe has repeatedly cited a border wall’s potential impact upon sacred sites, burial grounds, and the natural environment. A wall would split the tribal homeland down the middle and isolate thousands of members south of the border.
The institutionalized destruction of Palestinian women’s lives has thus been an essential feature of the Israeli project. In this regard, Israeli settler-colonialism can be seen as intrinsically anti-feminist and a form of gendered violence.
At a January conference, Minnesota tribal police made it clear they are not waiting for permission from the federal government to move forward in protecting their members. They are not alone.
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