U.S. is Dynamiting Kumeyaay Sacred Mountain for Border Wall Expansion

U.S. is Dynamiting Kumeyaay Sacred Mountain  for Border Wall Expansion

Under the pretext of national security, Trump's wall expansion is destroying Cuchumá, a sacred mountain of the Kumiai people. ByIsabel Ortega in Avispa Midia. https://avispa.org/bajo-pretexto-de-seguridad-nacional-ampliacion-del-muro-de-trump-esta-destruyendo-cuchuma-montana-sagrada-del-pueblo-kumiai/ 

Kumeyaay leader Norma Alicia Mesa said, "That mountain has a life of its own, a breath of its own, a spirituality of its own, and its own energy." 

Video at Al Jazeera https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WURO9ysWza0

Video https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/5833741-u-s-border-wall-expansion-destroys-sacred-indigenous-site

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 15, 2026

The United States government is dynamiting the sacred place of Kumeyaay, who live on both sides of the border, and blasted two sacred monoliths that were 60 to 120 million years old southeast of San Diego, California. The U.S. began blasting Cerro Cuchumá in early April, a historic and sacred site where Kumeyaay medicine people carry out ceremonies. The blasting was done without consultation as required by U.S. federal law.

Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026

Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026

Support the White Mesa Ute Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Protest Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah,  and near the Grand Canyon! Stop Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mill/Dump next to the White Mesa Ute Community!

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 12 noon at LA SAL JUNCTION
(intersection of Highway 191 and 46 – about 20 miles south of Moab)

Censored News, May 15, 2026

Energy Fuels operates uranium mines near Moab in La Sal, and also operates the Pinyon Plain mine near the Grand Canyon. They also operate the uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community in San Juan County which is turning into an international radioactive dump.

Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 6, 2026

Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 2026

Uranium ore haul truck struck by car endangered Navajos near Shonto, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. Photo courtesy Navajo Police Dept.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 6, 2026

A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle in the northwestern Navajo Nation on May 6, 2026. The collision  exposes the danger from the radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps.

The trucks travel from Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine in the Grand Canyon in Havasupai ancestral land, through Flagstaff, and across Navajo and Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in southeastern Utah. 

Border Wall Construction Destroys 1,000 Year Old Sacred Place of Hia-Ced O'odham

Tohono O'odham Nation: 'Devastating and Entirely Avoidable Loss'

Border Wall Construction Destroys 1,000 Year Old Sacred Place of Hia-Ced O'odham

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Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.

Lorraine Marquez Eiler, co-founder of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance and an elder of the Hia-Ced O’odham, says locals informed both the work crews and Border Patrol officials about the significance of the intaglio. “On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,” says Marquez Eiler.