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President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Las Vegas next week, where he is expected to designate Avi Kwa Ame as a national monument. Biden pledged to protect the site almost 100 days ago at the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
The proposed monument is a 450,000-acre area in southern Nevada that includes a 5,600-foot peak called Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain. Avi Kwa Ame is the ancestral home of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and holds major significance for other tribes in the region. The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe has asked the president to protect the area.
“The lands of the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument are very important to the Mojave people and the nine other Yuman tribes whose creation story begins in this sacred area. Avi Kwa Ame is where we come from, it is where we were created and placed here to protect, it is our Ancestral homelands,” said Fort Mojave Indian Tribe Chairman Timothy Williams.
To learn more about the proposed Avi Kwa Ame monument, watch the Center for Western Priorities' short film. The film is part of our Road to 30: Postcards campaign to share the stories of people working to protect special places across the country
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Our natural infrastructure—like the trees, streams and coastlines that surround us—is just as in need of investment and care as our built infrastructure. Protecting access to nature, waterways, as well as a clean and healthy ocean is a part of environmental justice.”
