The National Parks Service is mishandling tribal access to sacred sites within park lands, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday from a Native American man who was tasered in 2020 for walking off trail in New Mexico’s Petroglyph National Monument.
In late December of 2020, Darrell House, a Marine veteran of Navajo and Oneida background, walked off trail during a visit to the famed park outside of Albuquerque, which is home to thousands of petroglyphs from ancestral Pueblo peoples with cultural significance to an estimated 29 present-day tribes.
