Edge of Morning (eBook, ePUB)

Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears
Redaktion: Keeler, Jacqueline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape." -THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored 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 trees…they hold the links to our past and our future." -Martie Simmons, Ho-Chunk The fifteen contributors are multi-generational 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 Diné Bikéyah, shares his ancestral ties to the Bears Ears. Klee Benally, Diné activist, musician, and filmmaker, asks, "What part of sacred don't 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 co-founder 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Torrey House Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937226725
• Artikelnr.: 47254762

Autorenporträt

JACQUELINE KEELER is a Navajo/Dakota writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Origin Stories Interviews with Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Organizers
1. Regina Lopez Whiteskunk (Ute), Ute Mountain Ute Council
2. Willie Grayeyes (Diné), Chairman of Utah Diné Bikéyah
3. Jonah Yellowman (Diné), Utah Diné Bikéyah
4. Jim Enote (Zuni), director of the Colorado Plateau Foundation and the
director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
5. Alastair Bitsoi (Diné), journalist, graduate student at New York University
Part II: For this Land, For the Diné Bikéyah Navajo Activists and Academia
Speak for Bears Ears
6. Elizabeth Woody (Diné/Warm Springs), Oregon Poet Laureate
7. Lloyd Lee (Diné), Associate Professor of Native American Studies,
University of New Mexico
8. Louise Benally (Diné), activist
9. Jacqueline Keeler (Diné/Dakota), writer, producer and activist
10. Klee Benally (Diné), musician, activist and filmmaker
11. Andrew Curley (Diné), Deputy Director of Diné Policy Institute
12. Luci Tapahonso (Diné), professor of English Literature and Language at the
University of New Mexico, 2013 poet laureate of Navajo Nation Part III: In
Our Usual and Accustomed Places Indigenous leaders on Bears Ears and the
Fight for Cultural Preservation and Access to Public Lands in the United
States
13. Morning Star Gali (Pitt River), Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pit
River Tribe
14. Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain), poet and author
15. Faith Spotted Eagle (Ihanktonwan Dakota), a founding grandmother of the
Brave Heart Society and Chair of the Ihanktonwan Treaty Council
16. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa), professor in the Department of American Indian
Studies at San Diego State University
17. Wayland Gray (Muscogee), activist
18. Martie Simmons (Hochunk), writer