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Edge of Morning

Edge of Morning

Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears

Edited by Jacqueline Keeler

Published by: Torrey House Press

Imprint: Torrey House Press

170 Pages, 5.38 x 8.00 in

Hardcover
9781937226718
Published: June 2017

$19.95

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A 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist

"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.

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

JACQUELINE KEELER is a Dine/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is editor of the anthology Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears and has contributed to many publications including The Nation, Yes! magazine, and Salon.

"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

Edge of Morning

Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears

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