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Red Rock stories : three generations of writers speak on behalf of Utah's public lands / edited by Stephen Trimble.
Van Pelt Library QH76.5.U8 R43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public lands--Utah.
- Public lands.
- Utah.
- Wilderness areas--Utah.
- Wilderness areas.
- Ecocriticism.
- Bears Ears National Monument (Utah).
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Torrey House Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Torrey House Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Red Rock stories testifies to the international significance of Utah's redrock wildlands. These thirty-five writers span three generations, and many come from native nations of the American Southwest. Their call for healing helped inspire a national movement that led to the creation of Nears Ears National Monument in 2016. This collection will become a landmark in the histor of art as advocacy.
- Contents:
- Preface : Writing into the whirlwind / Stephen Trimble
- "This is where we began" / Luci Tapahonso
- Introduction : Listening to the Old People, the land and the long future / Charles Kinson
- Right of way / Simon Oritz
- The eyes of the young / Brooke Larsen
- Unthinkable / Sam Rushforth
- The man with the heart of stone / Kevin Jones
- The land of no use / Jana Richman
- The freedom of restraint / David Gessner
- The only way forward / Karen Shepherd
- It's time to heal Bear Ears / Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk
- On compromised ground / Lauret Savoy
- Stone that leaps / Christopher Cokinos
- What shall we give the children? / Kathleen Dean Moore
- Memory / Jen Jackson Quintano
- A place for meditation / Jim Enote
- Shash Jaa' follows wherever I go / Alastair Bitsoi
- The wildness in nature binds us to the past / Juan Palma
- The view from the mesa / Shonto Begay
- The ur-bear / Marry Ellen Hannibal
- Bear's Ears / Mary Sojourner
- Seeing red / Amy Irvine
- The grace of the wild / Thomas Lowe Fleischner
- Prelude / David Lee
- Faith and the land / George Handley
- Lease UTU914B1 / Brooke Williams
- We [heart] wilderness / Anne Terashima
- It is the land that tells the story / Jacqueline Keeler
- What the tortoise taught me / Michelle Nijhuis
- Whole and holy / Chip Ward
- When the desert morning rises / Ann Whittacker
- Up between the Bears Ears / Gary Paul Nabhan
- A gesture of peace / Terry Tempest Williams
- It's time to act / Bruce Babbitt
- Walking to water / Mark Udall
- We came out dancing together / Stephen Trimble
- Stand up for the redrock
- Contributors
- Permissions & citations
- Acknowledgments
- Red rock history
- Letter to the Utah Congressional Delegation from the Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition, December 31, 2015
- Letter of invitation sent to contributors, April 8, 2016
- Letter sent to Congress with Chapbook, July 5, 2016
- Introduction to the Proclamation by Charles Wilkinson
- Proclamation designating Bears Ears National Monument, December 28, 2016
- Map of Bears Ears National Monument.
- ISBN:
- 9781937226794
- 1937226794
- OCLC:
- 959035716
- Publisher Number:
- 99972795264
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