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Tribal Nations Stand with the Bears Ears Commission
In a letter to Secretary Deb Haaland, Tribal leaders emphasize the importance of honoring sovereignty and protecting Bears Ears as a sacred cultural and natural landscape for future generations.
Bears Ears National Monument Enters Final Stage of NEPA Review
The Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) has entered a significant phase in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.
Letter: A responsibility to steward and protect Bears Ears
At the heart of the Hopi world lies a profound responsibility to steward and protect the lands known to us as Hopitutskwa. Our obligation to care for these lands extends beyond Hopi’s current jurisdictional boundaries.
Why We Are Here
By visiting Bears Ears, giving our prayers, and conducting our ceremonies, we heal our bodies and help heal the land itself.
Our Approach
Beyond just protection, these lands will be managed in an entirely new way incorporating Native American traditional knowledge as an intellectual partner to western science, where the land and all its component parts are the mentor, the teacher, the healer, and where all our other-than-human relatives are honored and respected in a dance of reciprocity.
Our Goal
To assure that the Bears Ears area will be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity and healing of the land to make it fully a place where we can be among our ancestors and their songs and wisdom and our deepest values, where the traumas of the past can be alleviated, where we can connect with the land and be healed. A monument to all of these values will speak to the finest dreams of our people and those of the people of the nation and the world as well.
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Explore Remarkable Places in Bears Ears
Please read our respectful visitation guidelines if you plan on traveling to any of these culturally significant places.