Leaders from most of Utah’s sovereign tribal nations give Cox a 'B' grade and say they’re mostly happy with the governor’s work in his first year of office.
Lennie Mahler | The Salt Lake Tribune Rupert Steele, Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation, speaks during the opening plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions held inside the Salt Palace Convention Center on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in Salt Lake City.When it comes to Indigenous issues across Utah, Gov.
Cox has relied on the American Indian/Alaskan Native Health Liaison role in the Utah Department of Health to help the state coordinate with tribal governments on their COVID-19 needs to ensure better health security, Jansen said. “When we talk about health and health security, he was very quick to make sure that our tribe had vaccinations real quickly,” said Brad Parry, vice chairman for the Northwest Band of Shoshone. “He kept up on how the vaccinations were going for us.”
Another project that Nez appreciates Cox’s work on is getting water and electricity to Westwater, a mostly Diné community just outside of Blanding. Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson has visited Westwater at least three times, and the state, tribe and other partners, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are working to get the town services that have been promised since the 1980s.
Both tribes say that the governor needs to stop the state’s expected lawsuit over Bears Ears National Monument. A coalition of tribes, including the Navajo Nation, has asked for federal protections to the millions of acres of land filled with cultural and archeological sites from Utah’s Indigenous residents.
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