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Summer Fund Drive Special Programming: Indigenous Sovereignty, Sacred Lands and the Fight Against Extraction at Defending Chaco Canyon
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Brian Vallo, chairman of the Chaco Heritage Tribal Association, about the escalating fight to protect Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Davey opened the conversation by noting that while people are confronting racism, displacement and political repression around the world, the continued attacks on Indigenous people in the United States are too often ignored. Chaco Canyon, he emphasized, is not simply an archaeological landmark. It is sacred ancestral land whose cultural and spiritual importance stretches back thousands of years. Vallo explained that…
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