Raúl Grijalva

Nearly 50 years ago, President Nixon signed what has become one of the world's most successful conservation laws--the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

The Goldwater Range has served as a military training facility for tactical aviation training and operational testing activities since its establishment during World War II.

The bill extends the withdrawal for the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range located in my district, which is a top priority for the Air Force.

I introduced H.R. 3477 at the request of the U.S. Air Force, along with my good friend from Arizona, Mr. Gallego.

The Navajo Nation is looking to diversify its energy portfolio to combat climate change and provide clean energy to the Navajo Nation and the Western United States.

Navajo law also supports a moratorium on uranium mining and processing activity in Navajo Indian Country.

Uranium mining has been detrimental to the Navajo people for many decades and I want to make sure that it does not harm any family again.

I also want to address uranium mining and make clear that we do not support development of any uranium mining.

We urge you to oppose H.R. 4374 and to support the protection of Chaco Canyon.

The greatest external threat to park resources.

I oppose this legislation because it tries to minimize the significance of the importance of our protection.

Why is it important, and why does that protection need to be in perpetuity?

I think it needs to be explained in more than the limited way we have been explaining it today.

The consultation process with the Navajo Nation... I think it is important that be part of the record.

What I believe is important is honoring that which is invaluable, that which can never be replaced, that which is spiritual and sacred to those who tell us what are the most important places, because it is not everywhere, right?

Tribal sovereignty must be respected even when it is not politically expedient.

These deficiencies cannot be ignored, and the Navajo people living on and around these lands cannot be erased.

This is a gross underestimation of the losses that will be sustained by Navajo allottees, and completely discounts the impact the withdrawal is already having on them.

There is a right way, and that includes meaningful sovereign-to-sovereign consultation with the Navajo Nation government

Public Lands Order 7923 Disregards the Voice of the Navajo Nation and Fails to Honor Navajo Sovereignty

And sometimes, at least my experience with a conflict matter in Arizona having to do with perpetual conflicts having to do with a mine, the Udall Center was brought in at the behest of parties at the most embittered part of the conflict.

I congratulate you and the Udall Foundation for the generations of Indigenous people that are assuming leadership across this country.

I think the intent is excellent. I think the mandate codified into law is appropriate and right, but you hate to set up not just the agency but the expectations in Indian Country that now with this mandated timeline, things will move…

You can't just walk away sometimes and shift the costs, whether it is a tribe or most of the time if it is a trust land issue, it is a tribe that you shift the cost to.

The Udall Foundation provides critical opportunities for Indigenous youth to develop important skills to do just that.