U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's plans to visit Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday were derailed when protesters blocked the entrance to the northwestern New Mexico site.
President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Washington, with, from left, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listen. – It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S.
The landowners and Navajo leaders have said Haaland and the Biden administration ignored efforts to reach a compromise that would have established a smaller buffer to protect cultural sites while keeping intact the viability of tribal land and private Navajo-owned parcels for future development.Haaland's own pueblo of Laguna — about 100 miles to the south — is among those that have fought to protect a broad swath of land beyond park boundaries.
“We can disagree on policy. But we must be united in the protection of our children, our culture, our shared sacred spaces,” Haaland said, in a nod to those tribal communities that have raised concerns about the potential effects of new development on cultural resources. “The financial and economic losses that are impacting many Navajo families as a result of the secretary’s recent land withdrawal are nothing to celebrate,” Nygren said. “As leaders of the Navajo Nation, we support the Navajo allottees who oppose the withdrawal of these public lands.”
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