Tucked into the towering, red rock canyons of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah are more than 100,000 archaeological and cultural sites, hints of the Indigenous peoples who once lived here hundreds to thousands of years ago. Ancient petroglyphs and pictographs depict collages of people and animals from those times. Square windows in now-empty stone houses peek out from cliffs, overlooking dirt roads. Other evidence of former pueblos—such as the remains of hogans, wikiups, tipis as well as kivas, sweat lodges and granaries—can be found throughout these lands...