[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 195 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PROTECT CHACO CANYON

  (Ms. STANSBURY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, Chaco Canyon is sacred, the ancestral 
homeland, and a living landscape and home to the Pueblo and Dine 
people. It is a World Heritage Site and a landscape of ancient ruins, 
kivas, and sacred lands as far as the eye can see, which is why I stand 
here tonight in solidarity with Tribal leaders from across New Mexico 
to say protect Chaco Canyon, protect it from the attacks of a Trump 
administration that is trying to open these lands once again to oil and 
gas drilling.
  Can you imagine, one of our most sacred sites, which Secretary 
Haaland protected in 2023, which the New Mexico delegation is trying to 
permanently withdraw, a place the Pueblo leaders say holds the 
footprints of their ancestors and countless generations; Navajo leaders 
who say that it is deeply embedded in our way of life, the living 
community, and our very culture.
  However, this administration has forged ahead to open these lands to 
the irreparable desecration of drilling on this sacred site.
  I call on the administration and the American people to join us in 
this fight to protect Chaco Canyon.

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