Press Releases

Official press releases from Utah Dine Bikeyah and from other important officials having to do with Bears Ears.

Over 200,000 Bears Ears supporters ask BLM to halt planning!

For Immediate Release: November 16, 2018 Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsóí: (917) 202-8308   BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH– More than 200,000 public comments asking the Bureau of Land Management to halt its illegal, rushed planning process for Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) have been submitted to the federal agency. Most of these public comments […]

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UDB Board & Staff congratulate newly elected San Juan County leadership

For Immediate Release: November 9, 2018 Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsóí: (917) 202-8308   BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UT – The Board and staff of Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB) offer heartfelt congratulations to all the San Juan County public officials who won their seats on Tuesday. UDB salutes the new Native American-majority San Juan County

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Utah Descendants of ‘The Long Walk” Commemorate Long-Awaited Homecoming of the Treaty of 1868

For Immediate Release: June 1, 2018 Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsoi: (917) 202-8308   Click on the thumbnail image for the full size, official press release in a pdf document.       SALT LAKE CITY – Mary Benally and her family have always called Bears Ears home. Her Diné ancestors were force-marched on the

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UDB’s Honor Keeler appointed to Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee

Click on image to view the official Press Release.   For Immediate Release: May 22, 2018 Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsoi: (917) 202-8308 SALT LAKE CITY – Honor Keeler, assistant director for Utah Diné Bikéyah, has been appointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan

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White Mesa Utes to march against Energy Fuels White Mesa Uranium Mill

For Immediate Release: May 18, 2018 Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsoi: (917) 202-8308   SALT LAKE CITY – Malcolm Lehi will walk ten miles to the Energy Fuels White Mesa Uranium Mill from the White Mesa Ute Recreation Center Saturday morning.   Lehi, who also serves as a board member for Utah Diné Bikéyah, is

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