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"President Joe Biden on Tuesday will create a new national monument in Arizona
covering close to a million acres of lands surrounding the Grand Canyon
important to nearby Native American tribes.
The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
National Monument will be the fifth designated by Biden in the past 10 months,
prohibiting new uranium mining claims in the region. It will include federal
lands around the Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona that are
managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, according to
the White House.
The federal agencies will co-manage the monument with a dozen Native American
tribes through a specifically established commission.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to lead the agency,
told reporters during a Monday evening Zoom call that her visit to the region
in May, when she hiked along the Grand Canyon’s “South Rim” with members of the
Havasupai Tribe, convinced her the monument designation was justified.
“I witnessed the deep connection that the Havasupai people have with the lands
and waters that have sustained them since time immemorial,” she said. “It was,
and forever will be, one of the most meaningful trips of my life.”
She noted that when the Grand Canyon National Park was established more than a
century ago, in 1919, the Havasupai Tribe were driven out of their homelands to
make room."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
