A national Monument to protect 1 million acres of ancestral lands is being proposed at the Grand Canyon. The proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would protect about one million acres of the tribal ancestral homelands outside Grand Canyon National Park. To hear from the public concerning the monument, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service hosted a public meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona. The meeting allowed the community to comment on managing the region’s public lands, including a proposal to designate existing public lands as a national monument and protect them from ongoing efforts to mine the land for Uranium and other valuable minerals.
A Large Skin Cancer Screening Initiative aims to study Melanoma Detection in Alaska Native, American Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander Patients. While melanoma incidence is highest among non-Hispanic White individuals, other racial and ethnic populations have poorer melanoma survival. Proposed strategies to address this difference include expanded education and skin cancer screening, although no data exist to support either approach. A letter published in the July issue of the Journal of American Medical Association addresses the complex issues surrounding both expanding education and screening in indigenous populations.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
