Trump’s Land Grab is the Latest Chapter of Indigenous Cultural Genocide

O n July 13, 2026, the Trump Administration announced that it would be cutting a cumulative 3.23 million acres from Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument, reducing the former to a mere 181,500 acres and the latter to approximately 121,000 acres. Under the umbrella of "common sense land use," which aims to prioritize the resources on or beneath the land, over its cultural or…