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"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.
—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.
Price: $21.95
Pages: 170
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Imprint: Torrey House Press
Publication Date:
06 June 2017
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.38 in
ISBN: 9781937226718
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah’s Bears Ears landscape…Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise…scholars and grass-roots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers."
—THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it’s their illumination of Native Americans’ kinship to land that make these texts such an important read…The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves."
—THE DESERET NEWS
"Edge of Morning will…invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands."
—THE UTAH REVIEW
"This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness…a worthy project."
—THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human."
—FOREWORD REVIEWS
—THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it’s their illumination of Native Americans’ kinship to land that make these texts such an important read…The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves."
—THE DESERET NEWS
"Edge of Morning will…invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands."
—THE UTAH REVIEW
"This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness…a worthy project."
—THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human."
—FOREWORD REVIEWS
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.
Part I: Origin Stories
Interviews with Bears Ears Inter–Tribal Coalition Organizers
Regina Lopez Whiteskunk (Ute), Ute Mountain Ute Council
Willie Grayeyes (Diné), Chairman of Utah Diné Bikéyah
Jonah Yellowman (Diné), Utah Diné Bikéyah
Jim Enote (Zuni), director of the Colorado Plateau Foundation and the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
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
Elizabeth Woody (Diné/Warm Springs), Oregon Poet Laureate
Lloyd Lee (Diné), Associate Professor of Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
Louise Benally (Diné), activist
Jacqueline Keeler (Diné/Dakota), writer, producer and activist
Klee Benally (Diné), musician, activist and filmmaker
Andrew Curley (Diné), Deputy Director of Diné Policy Institute
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
Morning Star Gali (Pitt River), Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pit River Tribe
Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain), poet and author
Faith Spotted Eagle (Ihanktonwan Dakota), a founding grandmother of the Brave Heart Society and Chair of the Ihanktonwan Treaty Council
Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa), professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University
Wayland Gray (Muscogee), activist
Martie Simmons (Hochunk), writer
Interviews with Bears Ears Inter–Tribal Coalition Organizers
Part II: For this Land, For the Diné Bikéyah
Navajo Activists and Academia Speak for Bears Ears
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