Theodore roosevelt iv6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This area also happens to lie in San Juan County, the poorest in Utah and one of the poorest in the nation. Fittingly, for the first time, a monument proclamation specified the inclusion of Native Americans as advisors and in a co-management role of the monument. These are the canyons in which the Navajo resisted forced relocation and these are the home to 100,000 sacred First Nation sites. Five First Nation tribes had sought this designation for an area rich in native artifacts and still carrying memory of themselves in its hard places. Shortly before leaving office, President Obama used his executive authority under the Antiquities Act to confer national monument designation on 1.35 million acres of Utah's canyon lands. ![]() Nowhere is the tension between short and long-term values so furiously fought as on our western public lands – a multi-generational struggle around issues of sovereignty, identity, and regional or national definitions of well-being. ![]()
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