Shash Jaa': Bears Ears (2016)

Shásh Jaa' (Bears Ears) encompasses a proposed 1.9 million acres of southeastern Utah wilderness, sacred lands to local Native American tribes. Through the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, five tribal nations (Navajo, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Hopi, Zuni) come together to protect this pristine ecological area from natural resource extraction, development, artifact looting, and environmental destruction. The film follows Angelo Baca, the director, with his traditional Navajo grandmother Helen Yellowman, and the Coalition's efforts to convince the Obama administration to designate Bears Ears a National Monument in partnership with these tribes.