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Tribal leaders urge support for bills to protect cultural, sacred sites

WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders urged lawmakers Wednesday to pass a package of bills that would protect cultural and sacred sites by creating a new tribal cultural areas designation and require Native input on any decisions on those lands. The sponsor of the bills, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Tucson, called them an attempt to “put tribes at […]