The Grand Canyon Regional Intertribal Intergenerational Stewardship Expedition (RIISE) is accepting applications from young people ages 16-20 who identify as members of one of the associated Native American tribes of the Grand Canyon.
Resource Issue: Native America
Voters in Utah overwhelmingly support Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
A December 2024 poll of 500 voters across Utah found strong public support for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
Utah voters strongly support national monuments and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular a December 2024 poll shows.
A December 2024 poll of 500 Arizona voters by public opinion research firm GQR found strong public support for Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni.
Watch, listen, and learn from Native people who have called the Grand Canyon home since time immemorial.
Native voices share their personal and cultural connections to the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.
Native voices — sheepherders, scientists, educators, farmers, artists, and activists — share their personal and cultural connections to the Little Colorado River, from its headwaters to the Grand Canyon
Native voices share their personal and cultural connections to the Little Colorado River in this collection of stories.
Meet the collective of over 40 Diné and Hopi backyard farmers, traditional farmers, livestock owners, and market gardeners from the Little Colorado Region.
This map shows the risk of fatal accidents along the transportation route from Canyon uranium mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa uranium mill.
Find out what Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects in this interactive story map.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Travel to the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon with a new digital story collection, which launched online today in advance of the first anniversary of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument on Aug. 8, 2024. The story map was created in […]
The Havasupai Tribe opposes the hauling of uranium across its ancestral lands near the Grand Canyon.
Learn about Indigenous representation at Grand Canyon National Park and the need for expanded employment opportunities for Native peoples of the Grand Canyon.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE White Mesa, UT—Bills of lading recently uncovered in a shipping database reveal that Energy Fuels Resources imported more than 275,000 pounds of radioactive materials from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The materials appear to have been trucked to the company’s controversial White Mesa uranium mill, a mile from Bears Ears National Monument […]
LeaderShift is an immersive environmental justice and advocacy training program for students between the ages of 18 and 27.
According to Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla (Havasupai), the Grand Canyon is one of the most powerful altars in this world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHOENIX, AZ – Conservation groups filed a motion to intervene yesterday in defense of President Biden’s designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. The Arizona legislature and others filed lawsuits in February attempting to overturn the monument designation and attacking the Antiquities […]
On April 25, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied the preliminary permit application for the Big Canyon Pumped Storage Project, which would have dammed Big Canyon, a tributary canyon to the Little Colorado River Gorge, mere miles from Grand Canyon National Park. Big Canyon Pumped Storage Project Read the denial › See a map […]
See a map of proposed hydropower dams on the Navajo Nation.
See a map of past coal strip-mining on Black Mesa, along with proposed pumped storage hydroelectric dam projects.
Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) started extracting uranium ore near the Grand Canyon in January 2024, nearly four decades after the mine, which now lies inside the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument first broke ground. Read the Havasupai Tribe’s statement opposing the mining company’s actions › […]
On November 17, 2023, the Navajo Nation filed a motion to intervene in the preliminary permit proceeding for the proposed Western Navajo No. 2 hydropower project. According to the preliminary-permit application, the planned dam on the Navajo Nation would be located near Page, Arizona, and utilize water from Lake Powell. Read the motion › Download the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GRAND CANYON, AZ — Last week, Native entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, and tourism professionals gathered for Emergence II, an intertribal economic summit at the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park, to discuss new avenues for Native peoples to participate in and benefit from the bustling Grand Canyon economy. Over 60 attendees from […]
On October 31, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted an application by Nature and People First, a company organized by a French entrepreneur, for a preliminary permit for a proposed hydroelectric project called Chuska Mountain Pumped Storage Project on Navajo Nation land. According to the preliminary-permit application, the project would consist of seven reservoirs […]
View the present-day tribal lands of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition tribes.
See the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
See how the new Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni national monument fits into the region’s protected lands.
In August 2022, 75 Native entrepreneurs, artists, community leaders, governmental support staff, and National Park Service employees gathered on the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park to lay the foundation for a more equitable Grand Canyon economy that centers Native cultural values. Take a look at the inaugural Emergence Intertribal Economic Summit › Download […]