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After a decade of chasing experiences around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest adopted the magnetic draw home - only to find that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her lack. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an 18-feet steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, a lot of whom perished on the way. The frequency of the tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence, before Elizondo Griest transferred to the brand new York-Canada borderlands. Once she started to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Land, however, she acknowledged striking parallels alive on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mom tongues at English-only institutions, and their traditional occupations through capitalist endeavors, Tejanos and Mohawks similarly have difficulty under the legacy of colonialism. Harmful industries encircle their neighborhoods as the US Boundary Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to conserving their indigenous cultures. Complex notion systems, in the meantime, conjure wonders. In All the Agencies and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven many years of experiences into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces among and folks who live there.
