they also wanted to dig up our burial ground to extend their parking lot. we set up a blockade on a secondary dirt road. at that time, the majority of people who were at the barricades were women. 0ur clans come from our mothers, and they were the ones who were supposed to protect the land, and is the duty of the men to protect the people. the women said they would go to the front when the police arrived. the men said they would watch and protect us if anything happened. so, on the morning ofjuly11, we were interrupted at 5:15am by a swat team, so we went towards the front of the barricade and towards the highway with our hands in the air to make sure they saw we had no weapons, but they still met us with a lot of aggression and force. what i said to them was this is our land and we have every right to be here. they weren't too happy with that.