for ceremonies, tribal recognition celebrations or family events, they are typically issued an ID card from the tribe and a visitor visa or parole permit from the U.S. When family members, deer dancers or musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. DHS did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment by phone and email on the status of the regulations. Urbina said the tribe has met with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the proposal. “This is just something that will help everybody,” said Fred Urbina, attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. It also would require close coordination with the tribe so border crossings are prompt. It would require a Yaqui interpreter to be available when needed. Customs and Border Protection agents and consular personnel on the tribe’s cultural heritage, language and traditions. The regulations would last five years, to be renewed and amended as needed, and require training local U.S. border crossing procedures specific to a Native American tribe that could then be used by others, according to Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology at Colorado College. If approved, the rules would become the first clearly established U.S.
Their work could provide a template for dozens of Native American nations whose homelands, like those of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, were sliced in two by modern-day U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, comprised of 15 Native officials across the U.S. Tribal officials have drafted regulations to formalize the border-crossing process, working with the U.S. Now, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is trying to change this - for themselves and potentially dozens of other tribes in the U.S. “We did all this work and then we’re still sitting there.” “They know that we’re coming,” said Buelna, who has made the trip for a variety of ceremonies for 20 years. But when Buelna asked an agent why they were detained, he was told to wait for the officer who brought him in. citizen, was driving the pair - both from the sovereign Native American nation’s related tribal community in northwestern Mexico - from their home to the reservation southwest of Tucson. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might be released.
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