"Congress meets with Native leaders to discuss co-management of federal lands"
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-national-park-service-congress-meets-with-native-leaders-to-discuss-co-management-of-federal-lands
March 9, 2022
There was a meeting held to see about co managing federal lands with Indigenous tribes. It started off in a good way. Arizona's democratic representative, Raul M. Grijalva started the meeting with stating the importance of tribal sovereignty and talking about the reckoning with the injustices of the United States'. He also said that the lands that are now known as the United States land were once the homes of millions of Indigenous people who were killed, removed or relocated. There was also questions brought from native leaders to be asked.
During the three and half hour meeting their was a bunch of loaded questions, representatives from both sides and how each of them felt about this topic. Representatives also asked Native leaders about land management, reduction of wildfire fuels, and most republicans focused their questions on oil and gas extraction.
While nothing was concluded at the end of the meeting it was a great step to continuing this conversation.
Madison Vermeland
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