{"id":72932,"date":"2017-01-12T22:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tribes-celebrate-designation-of-bears-ears-monument\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T05:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:08:03","slug":"tribes-celebrate-designation-of-bears-ears-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tribes-celebrate-designation-of-bears-ears-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribes celebrate designation of Bears Ears Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:cfd00892-d9f6-4b45-ad52-215e149ee552 --><\/p>\n<p>Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye applauded more than 400 supporters and tribal leaders who gathered at the Monument Valley Welcome Center on Saturday, Jan. 7, to celebrate the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what working together is all about,\u201d Begaye said. \u201cWe are a powerful voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaders and members of the tribes of the Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition \u2013 Navajos, Hopis, Zunis and Ute Mountain and Uinta Ouray Utes \u2013 attended the meeting along with non-Natives, according to Barbara Stagg, of the Montezuma Alliance for Unity.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was former Ute Mountain Ute councilwoman Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach one of us has a right to stand proudly and say, \u2018My voice was heard,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve changed history because we\u2019ve stepped beyond consultation. We\u2019ve got to protect the eloquent words of this proclamation. And second, we\u2019ve got to defend the Antiquities Act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>400 attend event in Monument Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,122,121],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-monument-and-heritage-site","tag-utah"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72932"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}