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Southwest Tribes Push For New Nationwide Monument Close to Grand Canyon
A coalition of Native American tribes within the Southwest is lobbying the Biden administration to create a sweeping nationwide monument to guard federal lands adjoining to Grand Canyon Nationwide Park from uranium mining and different improvement.
Members of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition, which incorporates the Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai and 9 different tribes, held a press convention Wednesday to formally name for about 1.1 million acres north and south of the park to be designated as Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon Nationwide Monument.
Edmon Tilousi, vice chair of the Havasupai Tribe, advised reporters a monument would safeguard tribal ancestral homelands, cultural websites and water assets from the dangerous results of mining. The realm is wealthy in uranium.
“We merely can't reside with out these clear waters,” Tilousi mentioned. “As guardians of the Grand Canyon, we've an obligation not solely to our ancestors…however to our youngsters and future generations.”
A number of space tribes have deep cultural and religious ties to the Grand Canyon — connections that tribes hope to see mirrored within the proposed monument’s title. “Baaj Nwaavjo” means “the place tribes roam” within the Havasupai language. “I’tah Kukveni” means “our footprints” in Hopi.
A monument designation underneath the Antiquities Act of 1906 would cement a at present 20-year mining ban that the Obama administration put in place in 2012. In 2017, after a multiyear authorized battle, the U.
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Southwest Tribes Push For New Nationwide Monument Close to Grand Canyon
A coalition of Native American tribes within the Southwest is lobbying the Biden administration to create a sweeping nationwide monument to guard federal lands adjoining to Grand Canyon Nationwide Park from uranium mining and different improvement.
Members of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition, which incorporates the Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai and 9 different tribes, held a press convention Wednesday to formally name for about 1.1 million acres north and south of the park to be designated as Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon Nationwide Monument.
Edmon Tilousi, vice chair of the Havasupai Tribe, advised reporters a monument would safeguard tribal ancestral homelands, cultural websites and water assets from the dangerous results of mining. The realm is wealthy in uranium.
“We merely can't reside with out these clear waters,” Tilousi mentioned. “As guardians of the Grand Canyon, we've an obligation not solely to our ancestors…however to our youngsters and future generations.”
A number of space tribes have deep cultural and religious ties to the Grand Canyon — connections that tribes hope to see mirrored within the proposed monument’s title. “Baaj Nwaavjo” means “the place tribes roam” within the Havasupai language. “I’tah Kukveni” means “our footprints” in Hopi.
A monument designation underneath the Antiquities Act of 1906 would cement a at present 20-year mining ban that the Obama administration put in place in 2012. In 2017, after a multiyear authorized battle, the U.
kninfocare.com/southwest-tribes-push-for-new-nationwide-m...