Op-ed: Why does our country keep erasing history?

Bears Ears is a reminder that there was life here before — and that's OK.Sometimes we will hear people say that the current Republican administration is trying to erase all evidence that Barack Obama was a President of the United States. This erasing takes the form of overturning anything and everything that he put his name on, but that isn’t true.Obama is the distraction.Those being erased are Native people and the proof that Native people were here long before anyone else set foot