On today’s podcast we are hugely honored to have three special guests who spoke with Jessica about the Greater Chaco Landscape during their advocacy trip to Washington D.C. The first segment features All Pueblo Council of Governors (APCG) Chairman Edward Paul Torres and former Governor of the Pueblo of Tesuque and co-chair of the APCG’s Natural Resources Committee, Mark Mitchell. In the second segment we have Keegan King, an advocate for the Greater Chaco Landscape from the Pueblo of Acoma. They speak about what Chaco means to them as individuals and to their Pueblos, how they would like to see the area managed, their local and national advocacy efforts, collaborating with the Navajo Nation on these efforts, and appropriate behavior at places like Chaco Canyon. Finally we talk about, what they would like to see in tribal consultation in general and specifically how you can support their efforts to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape.
Links
APCG: https://www.apcg.org/
Protect Greater Chaco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProtectChaco/
Senate bill 2907: https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2907/BILLS-115s2907is.pdf
Chaco Canyon National Historic Park Website: https://www.nps.gov/chcu/index.htm
Archaeology Southwest and the Greater Chaco Landscape: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/projects/oil-development-and-the-chaco-cultural-landscape/
Articles about Governors' DC Trip: https://www.hcn.org/articles/opinion-tribal-affairs-we-traveled-2-000-miles-to-save-chaco-canyon and https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tribal-leaders-travel-to-d-c-protect-chaco-canyon/