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US Politics

The Blasting of Sacred Ground: How Border Wall Construction Constitutes a Cultural and Constitutional Crisis

In a brutal rush to construct border walls, federal contractors are blasting and bulldozing Native American sacred mountains and destroying thousand-year-old cultural sites, an act of desecration made possible by the waiver of protective laws. This constitutes an unforgivable assault on the spiritual heart of indigenous nations and a willful erasure of America's own ancient history in the name of political expediency.