Meet the Kumeyaay, the Indigenous Peoples Split by the US-Mexico…

Meet the Kumeyaay, the indigenous peoples split by the US-Mexico…

A growing divide — In northwestern Mexico and parts of Arizona and California, the communities have faced isolation and economic struggles as physical barriers have risen in their ancestral lands. Now, elders are fighting to preserve their language and culture. “On one hand, we have the state, whose response to any threat that seeks to overwhelm it is to draw borders, regulate, and impose discipline; and on the other, there is the nomadic subjec…