BY KURK REPANSHEK
Five Native American tribes pushing for a national monument in southern Utah that would protect their ancestral homelands have abandoned efforts to achieve the goal with help from U.S. congressmen Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz, both Utah Republicans, saying they have "been consistently stonewalled. We have never been taken seriously."
Instead, the tribes -- Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Uinta and Ouray Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute -- say they will seek President Obama's use of the Antiquities Act to create the 1.9-million-acre monument by presidential decree...