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3 02, 2021

BEITC responds to Utah delegation: We have always been open to dialogue, but Bears Ears needs protection now.

2021-04-22T09:41:30-06:00February 3rd, 2021|Press Releases, Statements (Including Testimony), Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (February 3, 2021): The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition stands united and in strong support of President Biden’s Executive Order directing a review of President Trump’s illegal proclamation rescinding and reducing the Bears Ears National Monument. Our Coalition includes the sovereign nations of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Mountain Ute Trib

10 11, 2020

Working together: Restoring protections for the sacred Bears Ears region alongside the new Biden-Harris administration

2021-02-03T10:55:07-06:00November 10th, 2020|Media Resources, Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (November 10, 2020):  The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, comprised of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe, and the Pueblo of Zuni, looks forward to working with the incoming Biden administration to restore protections for the sacred landscape known as Bears Ears. On December 28, 2016, we celebrated Presid

5 08, 2019

Insufficient and Rushed: BLM Releases Final Management Plans for Illegally Revoked Bears Ears National Monument

2019-08-05T12:51:52-06:00August 5th, 2019|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (August 5, 2019) - The Bureau of Land Management on July 26th, 2019, announced the availability of their proposed Monument Management Plans (MMPs) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the illegally revoked and replaced Bears Ears National Monument (BENM).  Despite repeated requests to halt the planning process until the courts review Trump’s

24 04, 2019

Injustice Reassured: Bears Ears Advisory Committee Stacked for Opposition

2019-04-25T08:50:27-06:00April 24th, 2019|Media Resources, Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (April 24, 2019) -- The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition rejects Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s appointments to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Monument Advisory Committee (MAC) for the so-called Shash Jáa and Indian Creek National Monument Units.  These “Units” were purportedly created through an illegal action by President Trump attempting t

12 02, 2019

More Champions In The Ring; Udall, Haaland Seek To Protect National Monuments

2019-04-24T18:47:47-06:00February 12th, 2019|Media Resources, Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (February 7, 2019) – Rising support for Bears Ears advances in the Senate. Senator Udall (D-NM) and Representative Haaland (NM-01), along with over one-hundred Congressional members, reintroduced the America’s Natural Treasures of Immeasurable Quality Unite, Inspire, and Together Improve the Economies of States Act (ANTIQUITIES Act). Hopi Tribe Vice-Chairm

5 02, 2019

Rep. Gallego, Rep. Haaland and Seventy Others Champion a Brighter Future for Bears Ears National Monument

2019-02-05T12:36:47-06:00February 5th, 2019|Media Resources, Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (January 30, 2019) – The five Tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition commend Representatives Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) and Deb Haaland (NM-01) for their introduction of the Bears Ears Expansion and Respect for Sovereignty Act (BEARS Act). The BEARS Act would expand the protections of the Bears Ears National Monument to the Coalition’s initially propos

28 12, 2018

Second Anniversary of Bears Ears Monument Designation

2019-01-29T17:03:49-06:00December 28th, 2018|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH — It is late December and there is a sense of anticipation in the air as we approach the second anniversary when President Obama declared the Bears Ears National Monument on December 28, 2016. After years of local and regional activism from tribal leaders, community members and advocacy groups, the work of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition (“Coalition”

5 03, 2018

Native American Tribes Condemn the Trump Administration’s Motives for Repealing Bears Ears National Monument

2018-11-04T20:42:50-06:00March 5th, 2018|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

On Friday, March 2, 2018, the New York Times reported on a trove of documents released on the process leading up to President Trump’s December 2017 Presidential Proclamation which purported to overturn President Obama’s creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah...

9 01, 2018

Native American Tribes Oppose H.R. 4532, a Bill to Codify the Repeal and Replacement of Bears Ears National Monument

2018-11-04T20:45:17-06:00January 9th, 2018|Press Releases, Updates from the Five Tribes|

Leaders of the five Tribes that advocated for creation of the Bears Ears National Monument expressed their strong opposition to H.R. 4532, the “Shash Jáa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act,” sponsored by Representative John Curtis (R, Utah), and heard today in the Subcommittee on Federal Lands of the House Committee on Natural Resources...

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INTER-TRIBAL COALITION MISSION

To assure that the Bears Ears area will be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity… where we can be among our ancestors… where we can connect with the land and be healed.

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