Format:
Book
Title:
Red Rock stories : three generations of writers speak on behalf of Utah's public lands / edited by Stephen Trimble.
Edition:
First Torrey House Press edition.
Publisher, Date:
Salt Lake City, Utah : Torrey House Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:
222 pages : map ; 21 cm
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.
Subjects:
Public lands -- Utah.
Wilderness areas -- Utah.
Ecocriticism.
Bears Ears National Monument (Utah)
Genre:
Essays.
Other Author:
Trimble, Stephen, 1950- editor.
Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition.
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.
LCCN:
2016943567
ISBN:
9781937226794
1937226794
9781937226794
Other Number:
959035716
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
700992
Call Number:
333.782 Red Rock
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1