The Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, an inter-tribal consortium of 21 member tribes across the state, expresses support for U.S. Senate Bill 387, the Grand Canyon Protection Act, a bill to permanently ban new uranium mines on about 1 million acres of public lands around Grand Canyon National Park in a letter to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Before these lands were "public lands" they were the homelands of the Havasupai, Navajo, Hopi, Hualapai, and many other Native American tribes with cultural connections to the Grand Canyon region. Read the letter ›