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Threats to water and culturally important land propels a dozen tribes to call for a new National Monument designation near the Grand Canyon. The proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would encompass more than a million acres. Among other things it would place a permanent ban on uranium mining in a place where tribes say such development contaminates the air and water and permanently scars the land.
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Vice Chairman Shelton Scott Crozier (Hualapai)
Carletta Tilousi (Havasupai), Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition coordinator
Woody Lee (Diné), executive director for Utah Diné Bikeyah
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), U.S. Representative and Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources
Break 1 music: Umumutayayata (Rolling Thunder) (song) Clark Tenakhongva (artist) Öngtupqa (album)
Break 2 music: Atomic (song) Sunburnt Stone (artist) El Navaho (album)
