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Bears Ears National Monument, Sacred to Native Tribes, Faces a Challenge to Its Status

By Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service
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Mar 10, 2017
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Now a tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.

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