Save the Homelands of the Indigenous and End Land Desecration (SHIELD) is a coalition of advocates battling the Trump Administration’s construction of a border wall on sacred Kumeyaay sites and burial grounds along the Southern California border.

 

Since time immemorial, the Kumeyaay people have lived in the area near San Diego and Imperial Counties surrounding what is now the United States-Mexico border.

 

Since the arrival of Europeans in the region, the Kumeyaay territory, culture, religion, and very existence have been under attack to make way for non-Indian settlement.

 

In the most recent episode of Indigenous erasure, the President of the United States and his administration are desecrating Kumeyaay ancestral burial and sacred sites to make way for a wall along the southern border.

 

Members of SHIELD will not sit back and continue to watch the bones of their ancestors being dug up and strewn about like random debris.  Ancestral Kumeyaay burials are being impacted, and construction continues to tear through our former village sites along the border wall areas. With no prior consideration or attempt to mitigate impacts, Kumeyaay sacred sites are being carved into and desecrated for construction of the Border Wall.