A/HRC/21/47/Add.1 that has cultural, social, religious and political significance to for the Apache and other indigenous peoples. 87. Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation: Increased border security and other restrictive measures have made travel difficult across the United States – Mexico border for tribal members and restricted freedom of movement; and the proposed Rosemont Copper mine threatens cultural and archaeological sites containing numerous funerary and sacred objects. 88. Gente de l’ioti, A.C.: Tohono O’odham Nation exercise of the right to selfdetermination is severely restricted by the presence of United States federal agents on the Nation’s main reservation; the United States Customs and Border Patrol regularly violate the rights of indigenous peoples that reside in near the United States – Mexico border. 89. Tohono O’odham (Mexico): The Tohono O’odham peoples in Mexico and the United States were separated by metal barriers installed by the United States Government without consultation; the Department of Homeland Security fails to recognize the right of indigenous people to freely enter and exit the Tohono O’odham reservation. 90. Individual from Tohono O’odham: Deaths of immigrants crossing on Tohono O’odham Nation; access to water as a human right. 91. O’odham Voice Against the Wall: Failure to adequately recognize and protect the human rights of indigenous peoples whose communities span the United States – Mexico border. 92. Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee: Concerns regarding the health, safety and reintegration of Leonard Peltier. 93. Keepers of the Secret (from Havasupai Tribe): Current ban on uranium mining does not protect Havasupai territory and drinking water sources. 94. Navajo Nation Office of the Vice President: The goal of the Navajo Nation is to develop an educational system that endorses Navajo culture by sustaining the language while promoting academic success; the Navajo nation is moving forward to create and operate a school system specifically designed to meet the needs of Navajo students despite disparities among the funding levels for state and private education systems and the Navajo Nation education system. 95. Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission: The United States frequently allows for the desecration and economic exploitation of indigenous peoples’ sacred sites, including the San Francisco Peaks located in Flagstaff, Arizona for the benefit on non-indigenous peoples, business owners and the non-indigenous public to the detriment of indigenous peoples. 96. Navajo Nation Corrections Project and International Indian Treaty Council: High rate of Native Americans incarcerated in state and federal prisons; Native peoples are often denied access to traditional religious and spiritual ceremonies and services while incarcerated; wrongful conviction and prosecutorial misconduct of Leonard Peltier. 97. Dine’ bi Siihasin: Mismanagement of housing programmes in the Navajo Nation result in discrimination and oppression. 98. Chihene Nde Nation: Due to lack of federal recognition, the tribe is having great difficulty protecting sacred and ancient sites from being excavated and looted. 99. Pueblo of Laguna: Indigenous transmission of knowledge to future generations is difficult without access to traditional lands, language and cultural practices; uranium mining has contaminated water sources and threatens many sacred sites. 43