Alarm as first uranium mine in years opens near Grand Canyon Pinyon Plain’s start comes amid US’s push to boost production, but tribes fear contamination of water and cultural sites The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2024
Biden creates new national monument near Grand Canyon, citing tribal heritage, climate concerns The move will help preserve about 1,562 square miles just to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. It is President Joe Biden’s fifth monument designation. Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 9, 2023
New national monument comes after more than a decade of advocacy by Native nations The new national monument that President Biden is designating in Arizona today comes after Native nations advocated for decades to protect the area WEKU · Aug 8, 2023
Havasupai Tribe in Arizona marks a spiritual homecoming: ‘We are still the Grand Canyon’ Members of a small tribe in Arizona are marking the renaming of a popular campground in Grand Canyon National Park as Havasupai Gardens The Independent UK · May 11, 2023
‘Ready to fight’: how a Russian uranium ban would threaten Native American tribes Ban would shift US uranium production into overdrive – posing environmental and spiritual threats to Indigenous communities who live near the mines The Guardian - US · Mar 28, 2022