John,

The Grand Canyon is over two hundred miles long and a mile deep. The Colorado River at the bottom is an irreplaceable natural resource, carrying clean water to seven western states, from Wyoming to California.

The power and beauty of the Grand Canyon are unmatched in the natural world.

Home to many Native peoples since time immemorial, it is still home to the Havasupai, and it is at the heart of many Tribes’ stories of Creation. Yet for all its majesty and grandeur, the land is fragile, vulnerable to the onslaught of unchecked human exploitation.

Now, as MAGA Republicans are seeking to establish increased supplies of domestic stockpiles of rare earth minerals once again, a coalition of Tribal leaders is calling on President Joe Biden to extend permanent protections to over a million acres of land near the Grand Canyon, which are home to large uranium ore deposits. They’re backed by several members of Congress, including Congressman Raúl Grijalva, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Join with a coalition of Tribal leaders to send your own message to President Biden urging him to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to establish a new national monument -- totaling 1.1 million acres -- protecting the cultural, archaeological, and sacred places of ancestral importance to Indigenous peoples and Tribes in the Grand Canyon now>>

The newly proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would also protect the Colorado River from toxic uranium mineral production -- preventing the potentially lethal contamination of the drinking water used by more than 40 million people.

Indigenous-led movements across the U.S. have begun to turn back the legacy of exploitation, illness, and land desecrated by fossil fuel corporations. Enough is enough. President Biden can protect sacred land, Indigenous communities, and sovereign treaty rights, with the stroke of a pen.

Click here to sign and send your direct message to President Biden calling for him to save the Grand Canyon and designate the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument now.

Thank you for standing with Native peoples today.

- Amanda

Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund