Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt

In this narrated essay, Boyce Upholt travels to the US-Mexico
border, where the O’odham peoples have long revered the saguaro
cactus as a being with personhood—a belief that is congruous with
the recent rights-of-nature movement. As legal protections for the
cactus come up against the push to build a wall through Organ Pipe
Cactus National Park, Boyce meets with elders from the Tohono
O’odham Nation who are acting on behalf of the rooted beings of the
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