The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century but keeps stripping away protections

A view of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near Escalante, Utah. John Fowler from Placitas, New Mexico, U.S. via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY – By Kerri J. Malloy, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University Published: 2026 Jul …