I was reading a boilerplate propaganda piece @ the wapo entitled:
'Shadow Wolves' Prowl the U.S.-Mexico Border American Indian Officers Use Traditional Methods of Tracking to Try to Capture Drug Smugglers By Sylvia Moreno Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 6, 2007; Page A06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050500771.html In reality, this story is one-sided agit-prop for continuing federal incursions and the concurrent pork-barrel funding of these MILITARY OPERATIONS on Tohono O'odham sacred land. The cultural assimilation/genocide continues.
From a ...'conservative' Native news source:
O'odham protest military home invasions Posted: August 18, 2006 GU-VO DISTRICT, Tohono O'odham Nation, Ariz. - As the National Guard sets up observation posts on Tohono O'odham tribal land on the border, O'odham say homes are being invaded by U.S. Border Patrol agents and their peace of life has been destroyed. ''There is an invasion of our communities. You would not think this is America: it is a whole different world,'' said Ofelia Rivas, founder of the O'odham Voice against the Wall, an O'odham human rights advocacy organization. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413502 Shattering the silence Posted: August 28, 2006 Border hearing slices through hype Tohono O'odham, others reveal life in a militarized zone TUCSON, Ariz. - Rep. Raul Grijalva and others heard from indigenous whose communities are located on both sides of the border, along with other border residents describing the realities of death in the desert and the hidden agendas of those profiteering from the sudden attention to the southern border, at a public hearing held Aug. 17. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413526
