Common Ground: The Story of Bears Ears | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

President Obama declared Bears Ears a national monument in December 2016. One year later, President Trump reduced the mo | dG1fRjVESmhPMzFLemc

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00:00We had ties to Bears Ears.

00:13My grandfather, great-grandfather, were living in those areas.

00:19It was their supermarket, their medicine cabinet, and their church.

00:27A place to heal themselves.

00:31I just feel there are those that are ignorant to understanding our ways.

00:36Something that's important to me is water, the air.

00:41They see that as dollar signs.

00:43What's happening in the West as far as allowing an extreme environmental element to take over

00:50the management of our public lands.

00:52It's already affected my children and it will affect my grandchildren because there's no

00:57job.

00:58There's thoughts of government overreach, abuse of executive power, descendants of the

01:03pioneering families.

01:05Post-Anglo settlement they were the ones here and there's a sense of proprietorial view

01:10towards things.

01:11And so there's a little bit of a fear of loss of that local control.

01:15There's 15,000 voters in San Juan County.

01:1915,000 voters don't make the difference in a national presidential election.

01:25You understand that this is a really difficult thing for the president to do because he's

01:30not doing it to be political.

01:32And that's why I support President Trump.

01:35This is an area where the Native Americans outnumber the white population, yet very,

01:41very few elected officials are Native.

01:44Many of the indigenous tribes of this country are feeling is that need to be heard.

01:51We are going through a time that we need to be together.

01:55Our people say, na nama, as one.

01:58Inviting them to sit to the table obviously hasn't worked, right?

02:01You know, I mean you see what happened when Trump sent his representative here to talk

02:06to the people, but he didn't mean our people.

02:08Zinky, is there a reason why you're not listening to tribal leaders?

02:11Zinky, are you going to visit with the tribes tomorrow?

02:13Be nice.

02:14I'm so nice.

02:15Be nice.

02:17There's a much deeper level of understanding that we have to grow from.

02:23But the most simple place that we need to come from is remembering we're all human beings

02:28and we all need to be able to live with one another and be kind.

02:34Engage in this fight.

02:35Resend the monument.

02:38Listen to my people.

02:39We don't want to be pushed aside and be forgotten.