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Arizona gets a new national monument as President Biden designates Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, effectively barring mining on a million acres.

The Biden administration is touting its efforts to support Native American tribal sovereignty just months after it took action curbing key oil and gas drilling rights for tribes.

While many regions have bounties of berries to pick, abnormally hot and dry conditions in other parts of the territory have left foragers and wildlife with hardly anything.

The land that will now be designated the Baaj Nwaavjoj I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument has always been sacred to the surrounding Indigenous tribes. The Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition

President Biden on Tuesday designated Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona, a sprawling, nearly million-acre tract adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park known for its natural, cultural, economic, scientific, and historic resources and recreational opportunities.

President Joe Biden has established the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona.

Here is the full text of the proclamation President Joe Biden signed Tuesday in northern Arizona to create a Grand Canyon national monument.

The Grand Canyon is the ancestral homeland of multiple tribal nations across the Southwest, and tribes still rely on the canyon for natural and cultural resources that are significant and sacred to their communities.

President Biden on Tuesday designated Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona, a sprawling, nearly million-acre tract adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park known for its natural, cultural, economic, scientific, and historic resources and recreational opportunities.