Designated a National Monument in 2016, Bears Ears National Monument is home to rich cultural heritage and is sacred to many Native American tribes who continue to utilize the landscape. Located in southeast Utah, visitors to Bears Ears can see the two buttes from which the monument gets its name along with historic ancestral sites among the canyons and pinyon and juniper forests. Two of these ancestral sites, the Mule Canyon Village and House on Fire provide a unique opportunity to learn about Ancestral Pueblo people who have lived at Bears Ears in the past and the connections that their descendants continue to have with this place today.