President Biden Issues Proclamation on Bears Ears National Monument
October 09, 2021
October 09, 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- President Biden issued the following proclamation on Oct. 8, 2021, on the Bears Ears National Monument:
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President Barack Obama's establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument in Proclamation 9558 of December 28, 2016, represented the culmination of more than a century of efforts to protect the ancestral homeland of Tribal Nations that all refer to the area by the same name -- Hoon'Naqvut (Hopi), Shash Jaa' (Navajo), Kwiyaga . . .
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President Barack Obama's establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument in Proclamation 9558 of December 28, 2016, represented the culmination of more than a century of efforts to protect the ancestral homeland of Tribal Nations that all refer to the area by the same name -- Hoon'Naqvut (Hopi), Shash Jaa' (Navajo), Kwiyaga . . .