Excellent article about Bears Ears & Grand Staircase/Escalante. 'For Native nations, the sacred is not a shrine that can be fenced off while the land around it is opened to mining. It is the whole living landscape. These are sacred places, not sacred sites.' theconversation.com/the-us-has-a...
The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protectionsNative religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.theconversation.com