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2 05, 2017

Media Advisory: Press Conference on May 3 Native American Tribes Respond to National Monuments Executive Order

2018-11-05T14:01:18-06:00May 2nd, 2017|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, a coalition of five sovereign Tribal Nations – Hopi, Navajo, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute, and Zuni – will hold a press conference on Wednesday, May 3rd, at 9:30 AM ET at the National Press Club in response to President’s Trump executive order on national monuments, his comments on Bears Ears National Monument, and threats to the Antiquities Act....

26 04, 2017

Tribal Leaders Outraged over Executive Order to Undermine Bears Ears National Monument

2018-11-05T14:02:58-06:00April 26th, 2017|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

Leaders of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition expressed grave concerns about today’s Executive Order directing the Department of Interior to review prior national monument designations and propose changes or modify or rescind these protected lands, including Bears Ears National Monument...

1 03, 2017

Statement from the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition on Confirmation of Ryan Zinke as U.S. Secretary of the Interior

2018-11-05T14:04:49-06:00March 1st, 2017|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, a partnership of the Hopi, Navajo, Uintah & Ouray Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, and Zuni Tribal governments, congratulates Ryan Zinke on his confirmation as Secretary of Interior and looks forward to working with him during his tenure at the U.S. Department of the Interior...

10 12, 2016

Traditional Knowledge and Bears Ears

2022-03-09T15:20:42-06:00December 10th, 2016|Updates from the Five Tribes|

Imagine for a moment, a beloved garden, where your grandma’s heirloom seeds are planted in old foundations that carry her memory, where the soil you have nurtured sustains your family, whose birds rely on your presence, where art adorns the fences. This a garden that you have tended for generations, learning more and more with every passing season until the knowledge of that place and the care for that place are inseparable from your being...

22 09, 2016

Chairman Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative an Affront to Tribal Sovereignty

2018-11-16T16:07:01-06:00September 22nd, 2016|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

Today’s House markup of H.R 5780, Representative Rob Bishop’s (R, UT) Utah Public Lands Initiative (PLI) represents yet another chapter in the long and sordid history of this disastrous bill. While the addition of a Bears Ears Commission that would elevate tribal voices is a positive change, the foundation and framework remain problematic in innumerable ways...

17 06, 2016

Tri-Ute Council Passes Resolution Supporting Presidential Designation of Bears Ears National Monument

2018-11-05T16:02:16-06:00June 17th, 2016|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

The Tri-Ute Council, which includes the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Indian Ute, and Ute Indian Tribes, convened for their quarterly meeting in Towaoc, Colorado on June 14th to discuss issues relevant to Ute people. The Tri-Ute Council passed a resolution supporting presidential designation of a Bears Ears National Monument in Southeast Utah...

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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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