Patagonia has joined forces with members of the Bears Ears Coalition, including strong Navajo voices, to define the many practical and spiritual motivations for protecting this cultural landscape. In a Patagonia blog, Willie Grayeyes writes of the longstanding cultural ties of the Navajo to the region...
“Welcome home.” That was the message from the Navajo people to members of the Hopi, Zuni, Cochiti, Hualapai and Ute Mountain Utes, who gathered in Bluff, Utah last weekend for the first inter-tribal meeting to discuss the Native American-led effort to protect the Bears Ears...
We are excited to report that the Navajo Nation's Naabik'i'ya'ti' Committee unanimously voted to support permanent protection for the Bears Ears cultural landscape on March 12, 2015...
On November 29, 2014, the All Pueblo Council of Governors (APCG), a group representing 20 Pueblo Governors from New Mexico and Texas, met in Albuquerque, New Mexico and unanimously voted to support a resolution for the “permanent, long-term protection of cultural resources and sacred sites on public lands in the Greater Cedar Mesa (Utah) region through designation such as a National Conservation Area or a National Monument.”
