Solidarity grows for Tohono O’odham Nation in its fight against border wall
Native American Rights Fund files supporting motion in federal appeals court
Organizations that represent national Native American interests are joining the legal fight behind the Tohono O’odham Nation’s pushback against the federal government’s border wall construction on tribal land.
On Wednesday, lawyers from the Native American Rights Fund asked a federal district court to reverse its decision allowing federal government contractors to work on the Tohono O’odham reservation, describing it as a trespass that is “unprecedented in the modern era of federal Indian law.” The amicus brief was filed on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians and the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona.
On Aug. 25, the tribe said in a statement that federal police, as well as contractors from the Department of Homeland Security, violated the tribe’s trespassing law by working on border wall construction sites in Tohono O’odham.
The tribe is currently appealing a federal district court order that denied its right to issue the trespassing notices.
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