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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- On a breezy spring day, Lorraine Eiler, a member of the Hia-Ced O’odham tribe, walked with me around the border of Quitobaquito Springs - a strawberry-shaped oasis in the Sonoran Desert near Pima County, Arizona. Her family has lived in the area for generations.
“If you do research on Quitobaquito, the majority of times you will read about the cattlemen that lived here in the area, about the people that went through Quitobaquito,” she said. “You hear nothing about the fact that it’s an old Indian village. It was abundant. Now, it’s just … well, you see what it looks like.”
The first thing you notice most about Quitobaquito Springs is the trees. It’s the only source of water for miles in the desert and the lush vegetation around it is stark against the dry tan and khaki landscape and occasional organ pipe cactus. The second thing you notice: the border wall, 30 feet tall, just feet from the water’s edge. I asked Eiler how the landscape compares to her early memories of the site. Read the written version of this story on Grist: grist.org/vide...
4:43 powerful segment. And I love the perfect “This process is truly idiotic” music at 5:04. Well done!
Stories of native reserves combined natural sites facing these issues are all over the US.
All the money absolutely wasted on border guarding and overpriced walls (and from which millions of dollars are stolen by southern politicians) which do get circumvented anyway should be spent on actual conservativism and preservving the land and its people!
The monies were stolen from military families by JDT‼️
Thank you!
What a terrible story of incompetence. 😿
God bless our lands 🙏
Jesus name I pray everyday 🙏
If christian groups and oil corporations would'nt continously lobby against natural science education, climate change awareness, pollution regulations, and climate change prevention measures, things wouldn't have gotten so bad.