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10 11, 2020

Working together: Restoring protections for the sacred Bears Ears region alongside the new Biden-Harris administration

2021-02-03T10:55:07-06:00November 10th, 2020|Media Resources, Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (November 10, 2020):  The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, comprised of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe, and the Pueblo of Zuni, looks forward to working with the incoming Biden administration to restore protections for the sacred landscape known as Bears Ears. On December 28, 2016, we celebrated Presid

22 08, 2020

What Are Public Lands Good For?

2020-08-26T11:59:21-06:00August 22nd, 2020|Regional and National News|

Patagonia. Public lands are Native lands, and when Tribes came together to protect Bears Ears as a national monument, they were seeking holistic preservation of the region and the sacred cultural knowledge tied to it. "This cultural information is important for all Native people. This is why tribes have set aside any differences and come together: If this information is lost, it’s lost fore

17 08, 2020

Trump Administration Finalizes Plan to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling

2020-08-17T17:53:28-06:00August 17th, 2020|Miscellaneous|

The New York Times. "The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas development, a move that overturns six decades of protections for the largest remaining stretch of wilderness in the United States." The area is home to Indigenous communities who have relied on uninhibited caribou migrations and calving

INTER-TRIBAL COALITION MISSION

To assure that the Bears Ears area will be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity… where we can be among our ancestors… where we can connect with the land and be healed.

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