“I humbly ask for your forgiveness, and your reconciliation,” he said. It was the first time in the one-hundred-year history of the Park Service that anyone in a position of authority at the Grand Canyon had ever uttered words like that. And since then, it has become clear that Uberuaga’s gesture of contrition and atonement was not only sincere, but is part of a larger effort to reframe the relationship between the park and the tribes.
