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  • Native American activists for and against drilling outside Chaco Canyon clash, derailing official visit (New Mexico)

    06/12/2023 12:19:11 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 9 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | June 12, 2023 | Ryan Boete, Susan Montoya Bryan
    Native American activists verbally clashed outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday, derailing a visit by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who was there to celebrate a 20-year buffer around a World Heritage Site in northwest New Mexico. Haaland’s trip to Chaco on Sunday was canceled when a group of Navajo land allotment owners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile buffer around the World Heritage site. The buffer protects the area from future federal mineral development, including oil and gas drilling....