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Pueblo leaders and three members of New Mexico鈥檚 congressional delegation spoke in front of the Capitol building Tuesday morning, pushing to make permanent a ban on oil drilling around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

鈥淲e go to sacred places like Chaco where our ancestors today still live,鈥� said Acoma Gov. Charles Riley. 鈥淲e go and pray that they intercede for us鈥� We do not want the protections to be withdrawn, because it鈥檚 those places like Chaco, Mesa Verde, that even today our people, our traditional people, our religious leaders, go to ask for help for everybody, all of humanity.鈥�

The national park in northern New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage site that preserves a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture from 850 to 1250 CE, according to a National Park Service . Oil and gas drilling, as well as exploratory mining are banned on federal lands within a 10-mile radius of the park until 2043, thanks to an Interior Department order issued under the Biden administration.

While pueblo leaders are united in advocating for the ban to stay in place, the Navajo Nation president has backed legislation that would remove it.

鈥淚 support the Navajo people having a say in how their land and minerals are developed,鈥� Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a January statement backing the that would rescind the ban. 鈥淚n this case, the Navajo allottees have an important right to have their voices heard.鈥�

Nygren鈥檚 office did not respond to a request for comment. The bill is sponsored by Republican representatives from Arizona and Colorado.

President Donald Trump has made domestic oil and gas production and mining a priority. The Interior Department began reconsidering federal land withdrawals in February, including the withdrawn lands surrounding Chaco Canyon.

A handful of tribes participated in a Bureau of Land Management consultation meeting on the Chaco ban earlier this year, according to a news release from the National Congress of American Indians.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fern谩ndez and Sen. Ben Ray Luj谩n, both Democrats, are leading legislation that would make the 10-mile ban permanent, the . The 10-mile buffer was negotiated over years of consultation with Navajo Nation leadership, pueblo leadership, archaeologist and the federal government, Leger Fern谩ndez said.

鈥淲e made sure that we consulted with everybody before we introduced the bill, which is why we incorporated feedback from the Din茅 鈥� from the Navajo Nation 鈥� into the bill in its present form, so that we could call out the fact that that is an area that is also of great cultural significance to the Navajo Nation and the Din茅 people,鈥� Leger Fern谩ndez said.

The permanent ban would not limit drilling on land owned by Navajo allottees within the 10-mile radius or affect existing oil and gas leases, she said.

Leger Fern谩ndez was joined by Sen. Martin Heinrich and Rep. Melanie Stansbury.

鈥淐haco Canyon is not a museum,鈥� Heinrich said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not just a place protecting amazing buildings from centuries and centuries and centuries ago, or even the incredible astronomy that informed how that place was built. It is a living cultural landscape with direct relationships with the pueblos today.鈥�

During Tuesday鈥檚 news conference, several pueblo leaders encouraged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to visit Chaco Canyon in person, as did the congresspeople.

鈥淚鈥檓 going to urge that you all come visit Chaco at some point in time, in your lifetime. It is a very spiritual place,鈥� said Santa Ana Gov. Myron Armijo.