Among Indigenous peoples of the Americas, from Navajo Nation down to the rainforests of Brazil, events like the annular eclipse on Saturday have important and distinctive cultural meanings.
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Utah’s leaders once again allowed their deeply ingrained anti-federal-land-management ideology to, ahem, trump any sort of pragmatism, Jonathan Thompson writes.
Why are San Juan Hill and Dance Hall Rock mere stopovers along the Mormons’ 1879 journey worthy of protection, but not the Ancestral Puebloan “roads” that crisscross the landscape, or the countless ancient shrines or landforms that have played important roles in Indigenous peoples’ histories since time immemorial?