Indigenous Peoples Vow to Bring Down Apartheid Border Wall

The Indigenous Peoples’ Border Summit of the Americas 2007 began with a human rights delegation visit to the border and after four days of activities concluded with a vow to “bring down the wall.”

Indigenous delegates to the border on Tohono O’odham Nation land took a tour of conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border here and returned in outrage.

“We saw it all firsthand in America,” said Bill Means, Lakota and cofounder of the International Indian Treaty Council on Nov. 8. He is also a member of the Indigenous delegation on the border here south of Sells, Arizona, charged with the mission of documenting human rights abuses for a report to the United Nations.”*

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