e Talkers”, a group who developed a code based on the Navajo language that proved impossible for the Germans to break during WWII.
The lands in the Bears Ears area are ancestral homelands for the Navajo and are considered a sacred, cultural landscape to be protected and preserved. Members of the Navajo Nation began a grassroots initiative in 2010 to communicate to elected officials about the importance of protecting Bears Ears to the Navajo and other tribes.
These efforts continued and ultimately resulted in designation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016, the first national monument to be co-managed by 5 Tribes, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest Service.