Teddy Roosevelt,DJ Trump and the Antiquities Act
President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower National Monument on September 24, 1906. President Roosevelt also used it to create the Grand Canyon National Monument \u2013 the first step in protecting that place of great historic and scientific interest.\n\nFive Native American tribes announced plans to file a lawsuit challenging his pair of proclamations to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.A coalition of five tribes \u2014 Hopi, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute, Pueblo of Zuni and Ute Indian \u2014 claim Trump has no legal authority to shrink the Bears Ears designation.Ethel Branch, attorney general for the Navajo Nation, called Trump's proclamation "a tremendous affront to tribal sovereignty," and said he "overstepped his authority" to do it."Any action by the administration to erase or permanently damage these national monuments is not only illegal but also an insult to the owners of this land \u2014 the American people \u2014 and will be challenged by the Wilderness Society in court". Deseret News