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A Battle Over 1.9M Acres: Inside the Fight for Bears Ears

5 tribes want to see the land made a national monument

(Newser) - A May poll of 500 registered Utah voters found 68% of them hadn't heard about the Bears Ears proposal—an effort by members of five Native American tribes to preserve 1.9 million acres of ancestral land in southern Utah. Should you count yourself in the know-nothing group, a...

Hopi Tribe Can't Stop Mask Auction

Sale brings in more than $1.2M

(Newser) - A Paris auction house auctioned off a set of ancient masks considered sacred by the Hopi Native American tribe today, after a French court refused the tribe's petition to halt the sale. The Hopi had argued that the 70 colorful wood and leather masks in the collection were stolen...

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