# @indigenous.tv on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-15T20:21:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** INDIGENOUSTV (@indigenous.tv) — https://gondola.cc/indigenous.tv

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Trump has reduced two national monuments in Utah by nearly three million acres, removing monument protections and making the land available for uranium & coal mining.

On July 13, Trump signed proclamations reducing Grand Staircase-Escalante from approximately 1.87 million acres to 181,500 acres and Bears Ears from approximately 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres. Combined, the monuments now cover less than 303,000 acres. 

The White House described the changes as restoring “common sense land use.” Beginning 60 days after the proclamations, excluded lands are scheduled to reopen under public-land, mineral-leasing and mining laws, subject to existing protections and applicable law.

Bears Ears was established in 2016 following years of advocacy from the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

The new proclamation also disbands the Bears Ears Commission, which gave those five sovereign Tribal Nations a formal role in guiding monument planning and management. The Commission is replaced by a broader advisory structure that also includes local governments, grazing, recreation, business and other interests.

Tribal leaders say they were not consulted before the reductions.

“This is a living cultural site that holds our histories, our ceremonies, our traditional foods and medicines and our ancestors’ footprints,” Davina Smith-Idjesa (Navajo Nation), co-chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, told the Associated Press.

Grand Staircase-Escalante also contains archaeological places, rock writings, ancestral sites and culturally significant landscapes.

Both monuments have now expanded and contracted repeatedly across presidential administrations. Legal challenges to the latest reductions are expected.

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Sources: White House; Axios Salt Lake City, reporting by Erin Alberty; Associated Press, reporting by Matthew Brown and Savannah Peters.

#Land | #Utah

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