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Earthmoving equipment clears a path up Monument Hill in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in February. The Tohono O’odham say the site is environmentally sensitive and sacred to them. (Photo by Annabella Piunti/Cronkite News)

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“We have an obligation, we have a duty, we have a responsibility, to protect those sites of our ancestors, sacred sites of our ancestors, and do what we can do to protect those areas,” said Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr.

By By Lisa Diethelm, Cronkite News June 24, 2020