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Author Gulliford, Andrew, author.

Title Bears Ears : a landscape of refuge and resistance / Andrew Gulliford
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 541 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction: Bears Ears and a Deep Map of Place -- 1. Hunter- Gatherers and Deep Time -- 2. From Basketmakers to Ancestral Puebloans, AD 50-1150 -- 3. Into the Cliffs, 1150-1300 -- 4. Navajos, Utes, and Canyon Exploration, 1300-1859 -- 5. "The Fearing Time" and MappingAncient America, 1860-1875 -- 6. "We Thank Thee, Oh God" -- 7. Cowboy Archaeology , a Lady Botanist, a Failed Indian Reservation, andthe Antiquities Act, 1891-1906 -- 8. The US Forest Service , Natural Bridges, and the Last Indian War, 1907-1923 -- 9. Lost in Bears Ears , Murder in JohnsCanyon, and a Failed New DealNational Monument, 1924-1944 -- 10. Yellowcake, the Atomic Age, anda Golden Circle, 1945-1970 -- 11. U-95, Nuclear Waste, DeadlyDaughters , and Pothunting Raids, 1971-1986 -- 12. Tribes Come Together for Bears EarsNational Monument, 1987-2016 -- 13. Resistance and Challengeto Bears Ears and the Antiquities Act -- 14. Tiny Tubers, Dark Skies, andthe Future of a Sacred Native Landscape -- 15. Bears Ears Restored?
Summary Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict among ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states'rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region's history to illuminate what's truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography as a place of refuge and resistance. Gulliford's engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, stories of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880, impacts of the Atomic Age, uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago. The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American West. Its recognition will be relevant for years to come.--4cProvided by publisher
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2022)
Subject Indians of North America -- Utah -- San Juan County -- Antiquities
Cliff-dwellings -- Utah -- San Juan County
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Cliff-dwellings
SUBJECT Bears Ears National Monument (Utah) -- History
Subject Utah -- San Juan County
Utah -- Bears Ears National Monument
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781647690786
1647690781