President Joe Biden next Tuesday will dedicate two new California national monuments honoring tribal lands, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Biden will sign proclamations designating 644,000 acres for the Chuckwalla National Monument in southern California’s Colorado Desert near Joshua Tree National Park, as well as 200,000 for the Sáttítla National Monument, in the north of the state near the Oregon border.

Brandy McDaniels, a member of the Pit River Tribe who helped lead the effort to establish the Sáttítla National Monument, hailed the news.

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