COACHELLA — In a historic step toward Tribal co-stewardship of public lands, five Tribal Nations — the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe, the Cahuilla Band of Indians, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) — have announced the formation of the Chuckwalla National Monument Intertribal Commission.

The new Commission will play a central role in the long-term planning and management of the recently designated Chuckwalla National Monument, which protects more than 624,000 acres of ecologically and culturally significant desert land in Southern California. The area, stretching from the Coachella Valley to the Colorado River, lies within the ancestral homelands of numerous Indigenous peoples, including the Iviatim (Cahu

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