{"id":136492,"date":"2017-12-05T03:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136492"},"modified":"2017-12-05T03:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:36:58","slug":"tribes-trumps-monument-order-disrespects-native-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/tribes-trumps-monument-order-disrespects-native-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribes: Trump’s monument order disrespects native people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Approximately fifteen miles south of Cannonville on Cottonwood Canyon Road. (Photo By User:Axcordion – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:GSENM.JPG, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SALT LAKE CITY–\u00a0 Native American leaders say President Donald Trump’s move to drastically shrink a Utah national monument is the president’s second insult to native people in a week and an offence that tribes will unite to fight.<\/p>\n

A coalition of five tribes that spent years pushing for the creation of Bears Ears National Monument said Monday it will wage a legal battle over the president’s plan to reduce the protected area by 85 per cent.<\/p>\n

Trump announced in a visit to Salt Lake City that he would also cut protections at Utah’s Grand Staircase National Monument roughly in half.<\/p>\n

Trump says Utah’s lands should not be managed by “distant bureaucrats in Washington” and said he was reversing federal overreach.<\/p>\n

Utah’s Republican leaders had pushed for Trump’s action, saying the monuments closed off the land to energy development and other access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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