Articles for tag: national monument

Bears Ears National Monument: Sacred to Tribes, Battleground for Bureaucrats

Bears Ears National Monument: Sacred to Tribes, Battleground for Bureaucrats

Annette Uy

A red rock wilderness stretches for miles beneath an endless sky, where ancient cliff dwellings cling to canyon walls and mysterious stone spires rise like sentinels. This is Bears Ears National Monument, a landscape that pulses with stories older than history itself. For Native American tribes, these lands are sacred—woven with memories, rituals, and ancestral ...