The Tohono O'odham Nation: US Threatens and Promises Destruction while Building Border Wall

The Tohono O'odham Nation: US Threatens and Promises Destruction while Building Border Wall

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By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 16, 2026

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The Tohono O'odham Legislature said today that their Nation and way of life are under attack by the federal government, while the U.S. government threatens and feels assured of its power to violate the rights of a sovereign nation.

Homeland Security plans to begin removing O'odham relatives, the Saguaro, and Ocotillo, in two weeks. The government plans to start building the wall on December 1. More than half of the 2,000 Saguaro and Ocotillo will not survive, even if they are transplanted, the tribe said.

Last week, the Border Patrol told the tribe that the prayer camp at San Miguel Gate would be removed and the people "manhandled." O'odham at the sacred fire were able to move further from the international boundary, the tribe said.

Condemning the Border Patrol's action, the Tohono O'odham Legislature said O'odham have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of worship and to peacefully assemble.

Reporter John Carlos Frey said that Border Patrol stormed the  Tohono O’odham prayer camp with rifles raised while families slept inside. At 3:28 am in the morning, Border Patrol agents stormed the camp. Awakened, the fire keepers heard a gun being chambered by an agent with a long gun. The fire keepers' log lists 665 sightings of drones and helicopters and surveillance. Listen to the report on Wednesday morning: 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1659999418986420

While Homeland Security says it has a right to build the wall 60 feet from the border, the tribe said it knows the destruction of building the double border wall will extend further and destroy mountains and peaks.

The Court of Appeals in Washington will rule soon on an emergency order to stop Homeland Security, the tribe said. Homeland Security says it has a right to build the wall with more lighting, surveillance, staging areas and cameras and towers.

The tribal government said today it has been fighting to stop the wall in court, in Congress, and in meetings with the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and Border Patrol, but Homeland Security says "the call is coming, and we need to be prepared," the tribe said.

Read the tribe's full statement:

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Lakota Alarmed By Native Non-Profit's Plan for Massive 'Data Campus' Collecting Genetic Samples of Cheyenne River Lakota

 Lakota Alarmed By Native Non-Profit's Plan for Massive 'Data Campus' Collecting Genetic Samples of Cheyenne River Lakota

A Native non-profit's controversial plans for a "data campus" during a forum on Cheyenne River in South Dakota erupts in volatile controversy as Lakota elders warn of the theft of Lakota land and water. (Photo screenshot of Lakota 2KC Media.)

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 5, 2026

EAGLE BUTTE, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation -- Lakota here are alarmed that a Native non-profit is planning to build a massive data center on its land. While most of Indian country is fighting water and land guzzling data centers, Native BioData Consortium is planning a massive new "data campus."

Tohono O'odham Chairman Makes it Clear: No Real Protests Here

Tohono O'odham Chairman Makes it Clear: 

No Real Protests Here

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 12, 2026

SELLS, Arizona -- The Tohono O'odham chairman makes it clear, there will be no real protests here.

Chairman Verlon Jose told tribal members planning to march on Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday that the 'no trespass' order is still in effect.

So while border wall contractors rip up their relatives, Saguaros, protected plants in Arizona, no real protests are allowed here, especially by outsiders.

In a late night series of events, Tohono O'odham marchers said they will march and pray anyway, and welcomed non-Oodham to join them at 6 am on Monday beginning at Bashas in Sells.

What this really means if you're not O'odham, and you are willing to risk being harassed, turned around, or possibly arrested and your car seized by the US Border Patrol or Tohono O'odham Nation police, you're welcome to join the walk south from Bashas at the early hour of 6 am.

There will be a caravan for the long stretch to the camp at the San Miguel gate at the border.

The US Border Patrol which is already out-of-control and violent here, does whatever it wants. The only question is, how will they carry out their barbaric crusade this time.

Meanwhile, it's around midnight, and as Indigenous Peoples Day arrives, Chairman Verlon Jose says the way to honor Indigenous Peoples Day is to go vote.

The border wall contractors will be killing Saguaros, and making big money doing it.

Will anyone even try to protect their relatives?

Mohawk Nation News 'Karma for Canada'

KARMA FOR CANADA

Posted on October 11, 2026 by Shé:kon

 

 

 

 

INDIGENOUS PROCLAMATION: National Day of Action – Oct. 25/26 2026 – OTTAWA

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SUSSEX DRIVE, ROUTHER COMCENTER, 172 GUIGES AVE. OTTAWA, ONT. 

I am kahentinetha, Bear Clan, of Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, a sovereign originalperson and caregiver of onowarekeh great turtle island, from ocean to ocean, pole to pole. Ever since the intruders on turtle island, they systematically attempted to take all of turtle island and get rid of us.  Today they are facing a double standard. First, the intruders who call themselves ‘Canadiens’ [Canada] are screaming and hollering at the corporation of the United States of America which now wants to usurp our motherland and turn it into the “51st state” of the Union. Both the US and Canada are squatters on great turtle island. On October 25 and 26, 2026, in Ottawa the Canadian government, AFN, and the ten provinces are meeting to execute the “Final Grand Theft of turtle island” Plan.

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Tohono O'odham Nation: Border Wall Contractors to Begin Removing Saguaro on Monday

Tohono O'odham Plan a March for their Relatives, the Saguaro, on Monday, Indigenous Peoples Day. The March will begin at 6 am in front of Bashas in the capital of Sells, Arizona. There will be a caravan south to the border camp. Chairman Verlon Jose said the 'no trespass' order is still in effect. However, marchers said they welcome their non-O'odham friends and supporters. 

Photo by Russ McSpadden Quitobaquito Springs 2026