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10.08.2023 - 20:55 / cntraveler.com / Joe Biden
Answering the decades-long call of Native American tribes and environmentalists alike, President Joe Biden earlier this week created a new national monument buffering parts of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Meaning “where tribes roam” to the Havasupai people and “our ancestral footprints” in the Hopi language, Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni covers 917,618 acres across three distinct sites north and south of the natural wonder. Home to wildlife like bison, elk, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, and rare cactus species, the protected area encompasses plateaus, canyons, Colorado River tributaries, and countless culturally and spiritually significant sites for the Indigenous peoples of the Southwest.
The proclamation reflects the administration’s pledge to prioritize Native American issues as well as the growing landback movement, an Indigenous-led initiative pushing for stolen lands to be returned to tribal peoples. “From time immemorial, more than a dozen tribal nations have lived, gathered, prayed on these lands—but some 100 years ago, they were forced out,” Biden said at the signing ceremony that took place Tuesday near Red Butte, a sacred site for many area tribes. “That very act of preserving the Grand Canyon as a national park was used to deny Indigenous people full access to their homelands—to the places where they hunted [and] gathered; to precious, sacred ancestral sites. They fought for decades to be able to return to these lands, to protect these lands from mining and development, to clear them of contamination, to preserve their shared legacy for future generations.”
Long before colonialists drove them off their territories to set up homesteads and create Grand Canyon National Park in 1919, the Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Navajo, Paiute, Yavapai-Apache, Zuni, and Colorado River Indian tribes inhabited millions of miles across the region. For years, these Indigenous groups have collectively fought to protect their ancestral homelands, urging for a national monument proclamation under the Antiquities Act of 1906, which safeguards cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands. Now, these tribes will help manage this new monument under a co-stewardship system.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna), who made history as the nation’s first Indigenous Cabinet member, heralded the monument. “Native American history is American history,” she said in an Instagram post about witnessing the ceremony. “This president and this administration see Indian Country. Feeling seen means being appreciated for who we are—the original stewards of our shared lands and waters. It means investing in our people and recognizing the power of Indigenous knowledge as a key
Jamaica to Triple Visitors from Central and Eastern Europe by 2025
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