The white settler fascists in Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo lands appropriated the sacred Zia symbol & turned it into a symbol of hate. These photos were taken at an “anti-lockdown” rally in Farmington, NM, the center of the oil & has industry bordering the Navajo Nation.

While the state has a stay at home order in place, both Democrats and Republicans agreed oil workers are “essential workers.” They work in Eastern agency, which is interspersed with high rates of infection and death in rurally-isolated Navajo communities.

The area is known as “no man’s land” because of high rates of murdered and missing Indigenous women & girls. The overlapping land ownership patterns - state, federal, tribal - make it a jurisdictional nightmare. Farmington is the bordertown where “Indian rolling” was coined.

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On weekends, young white men would beat, torture, kill, and dismember Navajo men living on the streets. In 1974, several white boys “got caught” when they had hung a dismembered fingers as trophies in their high school lockers.

When news broke about the majority of COVID-19 cases being primarily concentrated in Navajo communities, the anti-lockdown protests began in the white-dominated bordertowns.

For reference, this building in downtown Farmington has swastikas, which according to local Navajo residents were made by the original owner to celebrate Hitler. This pic was taken last year during a “racist tour” of Farmington led by the local AIM chapter and @The_Red_Nation.

The 1974 killings were know as the “Chokecherry Massacre.”

Sorry for the misspellings. I just finished a run and found all these hateful images on my phone. The cop (the only one wearing a mask) in this picture is San Juan County Sheriff Shane Farrari.