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Tribal leaders urge support for bills to protect cultural, sacred sites
Monday, October 3, 2022
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WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders urged lawmakers last month to pass a package of bills that would protect cultural and sacred sites by creating a new tribal cultural areas designation and require Native input on any decisions on those lands.
The sponsor of the bills, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Tucson, called them an attempt to “put tribes at the front end, not the back end” of the decisions on cultural and historic sites.
But critics said the bills – including proposals to set aside 377,000 acres in Arizona – are too broad and need to be redrawn “with a scalpel, instead of just a machete.”
House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Documents
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 8108, H.R. 8109 & H.R. 8719 (naturalresources.house.gov)Legislative Hearing on H.R. 8108, H.R. 8109 & H.R. 8719 (docs.house.gov) For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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