US President Joe Biden has designated a large swathe of land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, fulfilling a years-old push by environmentalists and Indigenous communities to preserve the area.The Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument – Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – will conserve more than 404,000 hectares (one million acres) of public lands around Grand Canyon National Park in the state of Arizona, the White House said on Tuesday.It will protect thousands of sites that are sacred to Indigenous nations in the area, including the Havasupai Tribe, Hopi Tribe, Hualapai Tribe and Navajo Nation.
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