Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt

In this narrated essay, Boyce Upholt travels to the US-Mexico border, where the O’odham peoples have long revered the saguaro cactus as a being with personhood—a belief that is congruous with the recent rights-of-nature movement. As legal protections for the cactus come up against the push to build a wall through Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, Boyce encounters a coalition of Indigenous voices who are speaking on behalf of the rooted beings of the desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices