Describes Tohono O’odham efforts to obtain U.S. citizenship for members of their tribe residing in Mexico. Available on Westlaw.

Stephanie Innes, Aliens in their own land tribe Tohono O’odham hope to see oversight in 1853 corrected, Arizona Daily Star, May 16, 2000, at A1.
Describes Tohono O’odham efforts to obtain U.S. citizenship for members of their tribe residing in Mexico. Available on Westlaw and at the Arizona Daily Star archives http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/azstarnet/.

The burden of a boundary, Arizona Daily Star, May 18, 2000, at B6.
An editorial urging relief for the Tohono O’odham, whose lands are divided by the U.S.-Mexican border. Available on Westlaw and at the Arizona Daily Star archives http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/azstarnet/.

Ken Ellingwood, Tribes are caught on the border, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2000, at A1.
Describing the situation of the Tohono O’odham, the Kumeyaay, and other Native Americans whose lands are divided by the U.S.-Mexican border. Available on Lexis and Westlaw and at the LA Times archives  http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/ .

New national policy may help Native American tribes divided by U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Visa News, March 20, 2000.
Brief article describing INS agreement to accept a tribal registry in place of documentation such a land deeds and financial records that are usually required for border crossing. Available at http://www.usvisanews.com/memo919.html.

Pamela Hartman, Border easier for Mexico O’odham to cross, Tucson Citizen, March 20, 2000.
Describes efforts of the U.S. and Mexican governments and the Tohono O’odham officials to make border crossing easier for the Mexican O’odham. On file. 

David LaGesse, U.S. hopes new border policy with Mexico eases tribes’ passage: Indian leaders cite threat to culture, Dallas Morning News, March 12, 2000, at 23A.
Describes INS and Mexican efforts to make border crossing easier for the Native American peoples with members in both Mexico and the United States: the Kickapoo, Kumeyaay, Tohono O’odham, Pasqua Yaqui, Black Seminoles, and Tiguas. Available on Westlaw and Lexis and at the Dallas Morning News archives: http://archive.dallasnews.com/.

David LaGesse, Times force change on Yaqui in U.S., Mexico, Dallas Morning News, June 3, 1999, at 16A.
Describes the circumstances of indigenous people whose traditional lands are bisected by the U.S.-Mexican border -- the Yaqui, Tohono O’odham, Kickapoo and Kumeyaay -- and the effect that tighter border controls have had on them. Available on Lexis and Westlaw and at the Dallas Morning News archives: http://archive.dallasnews.com/.

Chet Barfield, Kumeyaay seek end to border as barrier: plan would reunited two halves of tribe, San Diego Union Tribune, December 28, 1999.
Details efforts by California Kumeyaay Indians' Border Task Force to  streamline procedures for border-crossing cards. Available online at: http://www.webarchives.net/december_1999/.

Michael Wilken-Robertson, Yuman Indian Peoples of the western borderlands, Borderlines 62 (vol. 7, no. 11, December 1999).
Recounts efforts by the Yuman peoples of California, Arizona, and Baja California, to ease border crossing procedures. Available at : http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1999/bl62/bl62comp.html.

Tina Faulkner and George Kourous, Native communities of the borderlands: an introduction. Borderlines 62 (vol. 7, no. 11, December 1999).
Discusses indigenous communities on the Mexican and U.S. sides of the international border: economic, health, environmental issues, and efforts to reunited communities separated by the border. Available at: http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1999/bl62/bl62oview.html.

Chet Barfield, A people divided: international border has cut tribes in half; no remedy is in sight, San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 24, 1999.
Describes the situation of the Kumiai in Mexico/Kumeyaay in the United States whose ancestral lands were divided by the U.S.-Mexican border and efforts by the Kumeyaay Border Task Force to secure rights for Kumiai in Baja California, to cross the international border. On file.

Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez, Native people challenge borders, Column of the Americas, Sept. 11, 1998.
Discusses indigenous peoples along the U.S.-Mexican border -- the Yaqui, Tohono O’odham, Kickapoo and Cocopah -- and their view that U.S. immigration law violates their freedom of movement and their right to practice their religion. Available at http://www.eece.unm.edu/staff/larranag/www/xxx/91198.html.

United States of America: Human rights concerns in the border region with Mexico, Amnesty International Report, AMR 51/03/98.
This Amnesty International report describes research into human rights violations along the U.S.-Mexico border. A brief portion of the report discusses four Native American nations with tribal lands divided by the U.S.-Mexican border: the Tohono O’odham, Yaqui, Cocopah and Kickapoo. According to the report, human rights monitors have documented harassment of Native American Indians attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexican border to visit family members or to attend tribal ceremonies.  Available online at http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/ (search for AMR 51/03/98).

Brenda Norrell, Indigenous in Sonora without medicine or doctors, Borderlines 45 (vol. 6, no. 4, May 1998).
Describes the circumstances of the O’odham and Yaqui people in northern Mexico who lack social services from the Mexican government because funds are not available from Mexico’s Instituto Nacional Indigenista. Available at http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1998/bl45/bl45son.html.

Tim Vanderpool, Border crackdown hits tribes hard: Native Americans fight to ease restrictions on travel between the United State and Mexico, Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 1998, at 4.
Information about current enforcement of immigration laws by the United States Border Patrol and its effect on the Yaqui people. The current policy contrasts with earlier informal arrangements for the Yaqui, Tohono O’odham, Cocopah, and Kickapoo people to travel between the United States and Mexico. Available on Lexis and Westlaw and at  http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/04/us/us.3.html.

Brenda Norrell, Native peoples seek safe passage to, from Mexico, Arizona Republic, Dec. 16, 1997, at B7.
Editorial describes the dilemma of Yaqui and O’odham people who lack the documentation requested by the U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Service for border crossings and efforts of human rights organizations in the Southwest to assist them. Available on Westlaw.

Brenda Norrell, Indigenous border alliance fighting for right of passage, Borderlines 39 (vol. 5, no. 9, Sept. 1997).

Describes the situation of the Yaqui, O’odham, Cocopah and Kickapoo people who live in the Sonoran desert and cross frequently between the U.S. and Mexico to visit family members and attend ceremonies. Two of the rights organizations discussed here are the Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras/Indigenous Alliance Without Borders and the Coalicion De Derechos Humanos/Arizona Border Rights Project in Tucson, Arizona.  Available online at http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1997/bl39/bl39indi.html and  http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/articles/border.htm (as Borderzone: Indigenous fighting for right of passage Native border rights alliance result of tireless efforts).

George Snyder, INS hassles Kumeyaay at US-Mexico border, News from Indian Country, November 30, 1996, at 12A.
A brief article voicing concern that U.S. border control policies endanger Kumeyaay culture. Available on Westlaw.

Rachel Hays, Native Nations pursue sovereignty, fair trade, and a clean environment in the borderlands, Borderlines 21 (vol. 4, no. 2, Feb 1996).
Describes four Native American nations that are divided by the U.S.-Mexican border -- the O’odham, Cocopah, Yaqui and Kickapoo – and the challenges that they face because of the international border. Available at:  http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1996/bl21/bl21ind1.html.

Binational programs of the Tohono O’odham nation, Borderlines 21 (vol.4, no. 2, Feb. 1996).
Describes the Tohono O’odham Nation’s binational office, concerned with land claims in Mexico and the United States and with providing general services to Tohono O’odham members in Mexico. Available at http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1996/bl21/bl21ind2.html.

Rachel Hays, Cross-border indigenous nations: a history, Borderlines 20 (vol. 4, no1, Jan. 1996).
Discusses four Native American nations that are divided by the U.S.-Mexican border: the O’odham, Cocopah, Yaqui and Kickapoo. Available at http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/1996/bl20/bl20indi.html. 

David Maraniss, A new age for the Kickapoo, Mexican tribe edges into modern America, Washington Post, May 12, 1986, at  A1.
Describes the migration of the Kickapoo from New York through the Midwest to both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Available on Lexis and Westlaw.

Richard J. Meislin, Land offer unsettles tribe in Mexico, New York Times, Jan. 14, 1985, at A2.
Describes the Texas band of Kickapoo Indians and the 1982 legislation permitting the Kickapoo to apply for United States citizenship and to receive federal services. Available on Lexis.