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Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores how stories shape who we are, how we understand and interact with other people, and how Native American culture ties into storytelling, from creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native American literature.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened...