Yesterday, a friend of mine from Arizona told me of the following encounter: two men and two women, who live on reservations but work in Phoenix, were expressing outrage over the possibility of being hassled because they look Hispanic. There are twenty-one federally recognized tribes in Arizona. There are 250,000 Native Americans in Arizona. Reservations and Tribal Communities comprise one fourth of Arizona lands. This “stop & hassle” law will lead to problems with the original Natives of this country. This is but one aspect of the intrinsic savagery of this moribund legislation.
Alice Parris
Alice Parris descendant of The Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, NC
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