BY REBECCA TSOSIE
The proposed Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah offers President Obama a historic opportunity to recognize a role for Native nations to collaborate with the federal government to manage their ancestral homelands for the public interest of all Americans.
No one knows the canyons, cliff dwellings and rock art of the Bears Ears region better than Native nations
The proposed Bears Ears National Monument is unlike any other national monument. First, the plan was forged by a coalition of tribal governments that united to demonstrate the significance of the Bears Ears as a living repository of historic and cultural knowledge...