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A new poll shows nearly 80% of registered Arizona voters support the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon.
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The White House says President Biden will officially announce two new national monuments next week. Wildfires in California forced changes to his plans for Tuesday.
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President Joe Biden declared the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania on Monday. It acknowledges the decades of trauma inflicted on tribal communities throughout the U.S. and in Arizona, which had the second-highest number of the schools in the nation.
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The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 and 1918.
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Native American tribes and conservation groups are pressing President Joe Biden to designate more national monuments before he leaves office next month.
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President Joe Biden has formally apologized to Native Americans for government-run boarding school systems that for decades forcibly separated Indigenous children from their parents.
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President Joe Biden is paying a long-promised visit to a reservation in Arizona that Democrats hope could provide a boost to Vice President Kamala Harris’ turnout effort in a key battleground state.
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President Joe Biden plans to issue an historic apology on Friday for the nation's 150-year campaign to assimilate Indigenous children by taking them away to Indian boarding school system.
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In late July, the first truckloads of uranium ore were shipped from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The mine’s owner says it's crucial as the world moves away from fossil fuels, but conservationists and Indigenous communities are pushing back.
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Thursday marks the first anniversary of President Joe Biden’s designation of a nearly million-acre national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. The area is culturally significant to 13 tribes in the region.