Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition

A historic consortium of sovereign tribal nations united in the effort to conserve the Bears Ears cultural landscape.

Latest News

Ten Years of Unity, Vision, and Stewardship: Celebrating a Decade of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition

July 18th, 2025|

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition—an alliance rooted in Indigenous leadership, Traditional Knowledge, and the shared vision to protect Bears Ears. From a groundbreaking 2015 proposal to a historic cooperative agreement and youth-led programs, we reflect on a decade of progress, partnership, and perseverance.

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The Bears Ears Conservation Partnership

May 13th, 2025|

The Bears Ears Conservation Partnership is more than a collaboration, it's a community-led movement grounded in Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and built for long-term stewardship. In this reflection, Charissa Miijessepe-Wilson, Co-Director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, shares how partnerships rooted in reciprocity, respect, and collective care are shaping the future of Bears Ears.

The Finalized Resource Management Plan

April 23rd, 2025|

The finalized Bears Ears Resource Management Plan marks a historic milestone—embedding Tribal sovereignty and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge into every layer of national public lands stewardship. Learn how this Tribal-led collaboration is setting a new model for the future.

Why We Are Here

By visiting Bears Ears, giving our prayers, and conducting our ceremonies, we heal our bodies and help heal the land itself.

Our Approach

Beyond just protection, these lands will be managed in an entirely new way incorporating Native American traditional knowledge as an intellectual partner to western science, where the land and all its component parts are the mentor, the teacher, the healer, and where all our other-than-human relatives are honored and respected in a dance of reciprocity.

Our Goal

To assure that the Bears Ears area will be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity and healing of the land to make it fully a place where we can be among our ancestors and their songs and wisdom and our deepest values, where the traumas of the past can be alleviated, where we can connect with the land and be healed. A monument to all of these values will speak to the finest dreams of our people and those of the people of the nation and the world as well.

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Explore Remarkable Places in Bears Ears

Please read our respectful visitation guidelines if you plan on traveling to any of these culturally significant places.