On April 28,
Chairman Verlon Jose of the Tohono O’odham Nation received a message from a
representative of the Department of Homeland Security. A contractor working on
behalf of DHS to construct an additional border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border had destroyed part of a site sacred to the Tohono O’odham—Las Playas
Intaglio, an archeological site featuring art engraved in the
earth in the shape of a fish (comparable to the Nazca Lines in Peru)…