U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND): This BORDER WALL would go THROUGH TRIBAL BURIAL GROUNDS :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

The Biden administration just waived 26 laws -- including the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act -- to fast-track a border wall in Texas without input from local communities.

The Department of Homeland Security’s plans to fast-track border wall construction violates our treaties and our inherent sovereignty as Native peoples.

Juan Mancias, the chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe, said : “By developing this, they are furthering a genocide.” The border wall would go through the Tribe’s sacred places and burial grounds.

The Biden administration must reverse this decision and stop any further construction of the border wall.

Please send a letter to demand the Biden administration stop any further border wall construction and reverse the decision that tramples protections for Indigenous sacred sites, clean water and air, and endangered species. A wall is not a solution to how to respond to migration.

SIGN & SEND YOUR LETTER

Last month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported on the damage caused by constructing border walls along the U.S-Mexico border. Similar walls have irreversibly harmed water resources and wildlife, as well as Indigenous cultural sites and burial grounds.

President Biden must stand by his campaign promises, when he said he would stop building border walls. Walls are not a solution to migration. We call on the President to halt the process and look for every possible way to ensure essential protections for the sacred places, water, and endangered species. And we also urge that the Biden administration do everything in their power to assure the safety and welfare of migrant families.

Please tell the Biden administration: No border walls through burial grounds!

Hawwih (thank you).

Together, we will defend Native sovereignty and sacred places in the face of accelerating threats such as climate change, dams, fossil fuel extraction, toxic mining and inhumane measures in response to migration. 

 

Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.

 

 

 

 

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