Trump border wall destroys 1,000-year-old sacred site in Arizona

Trump border wall destroys 1,000-year-old sacred site in Arizona

The Tohono O’odham Nation said April 28 it was notified that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contractor building a secondary federal border wall destroyed the Las Playas Intaglio — A 1,000-year-old, fish-shaped geoglyph etched into the floor of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, on the ancestral lands of the Tohono O’odham Nation. About 60 to 70 feet of the roughly 200-foot-long geoglyph were lost. The site had been flagged by a…

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - Border wall construction damaging sacred sites » Native America Calling

Construction crews working on the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona significantly damaged a 1,000-year-old geoglyph located in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. It’s one of a number of places tribes on both sides of the border say are damaged or are threatened by the fast-tracked construction process. Tribal leaders say such desecration is happening at a record pace after the Trump administration sidelined cultural and environmenta…