We are among the Women of Bears Ears — Indigenous women who support our families and communities in the protections of ancestral lands. We come from Diné, Nuche, Pueblo and other allied Native ...

Underneath, an impossible hoodoo. ... Bears Ears: The silence screamed America's history. After proper rest, I went to the Edge of the Cedars Museum to kill some time in the morning.

Trump slashed the monument by 85%, leaving Bears Ears open to new mining claims. It is dangerous and shockingly disrespectful to Indigenous people.

I’ve always had mixed feelings about designating Bears Ears a national monument. It’s not that I dislike monuments. I just don’t like big crowds. Bears Ears can’t handle that.

Bears Ears is a national monument now. But it will take a fight to save it. March 23, 2017. The “House on Fire” ruins in the Bears Ears National Monument area. (Rick Bowmer/AP) ...

Bears Ears, first and foremost, is indigenous land. It is a place essential to the physical, spiritual and cultural identity of the Hopi, Zuni, Ute and Navajo Nations.

The covid-19 pandemic and the attention that the political fight brought to Bears Ears resulted in massive numbers of tourists and looting and other damage. The area needed protection right away.

Bears Ears has attracted controversy since President Obama announced in December 2016 that he would protect the 1.35 million-acre site in southeastern Utah as a national monument.

Bears Ears National Monument spans over a million acres in southeastern Utah, a tapestry of mesas, canyons, forests, and sandstone towers. The monument takes its name from two prominent buttes ...

Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument rarely leaves the news. The political tussle over this stunning expanse of red rock canyons exemplifies all the cultural dissonance in the rural West. Three ...