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An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utahs Bears Ears landscape.THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEIn support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in Americas remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these oftenignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.To us, these places represent more than grass, hills, mountains, and treesthey hold the links to our past and our future. Martie Simmons, HoChunkThe fifteen contributors are multigenerational writers, poets, activists, teachers, students, and public officials, each with a strong tie to landscape and a particular story to tell. Willie Grayeyes, Chairman of Utah Din Bikyah, shares his ancestral ties to the Bears Ears. Klee Benally, Din activist, musician, and filmmaker, asks, What part of sacred dont you understand? Morning Star Gali, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pit River Tribe, speaks to the fight for cultural preservation. The fifteen contributors speak for the Bears Ears and elevate the conversation around tribal sovereignty and sacred places across the US.Editor JACQUELINE KEELER is a Navajo/Dakota writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is cofounder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, which seeks to end the use of racial groups as mascots, as well as the use of other stereotypical representations in popular culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Indian Country Today, Earth Island Journal, Salon.com, and elsewhere.
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An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utahs Bears Ears landscape.THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEIn support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in Americas remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these oftenignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.To us, these places represent more than grass, hills, mountains, and treesthey hold the links to our past and our future. Martie Simmons, HoChunkThe fifteen contributors are multigenerational writers, poets, activists, teachers, students, and public officials, each with a strong tie to landscape and a particular story to tell. Willie Grayeyes, Chairman of Utah Din Bikyah, shares his ancestral ties to the Bears Ears. Klee Benally, Din activist, musician, and filmmaker, asks, What part of sacred dont you understand? Morning Star Gali, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pit River Tribe, speaks to the fight for cultural preservation. The fifteen contributors speak for the Bears Ears and elevate the conversation around tribal sovereignty and sacred places across the US.Editor JACQUELINE KEELER is a Navajo/Dakota writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is cofounder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, which seeks to end the use of racial groups as mascots, as well as the use of other stereotypical representations in popular culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Indian Country Today, Earth Island Journal, Salon.com, and elsewhere.
