Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879 2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North Americatwelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This

a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation

the wolf and the bear

Christine Taitano DeLisle

finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company

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come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures

who helped her out of the broken foster care system

it authorized one of the first state-sponsored mass deportations in the modern era

As a storyteller

killed in action

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tender and hopeful story of his fight to rediscover and accept himself in the face of a heritage with diametrically opposed backgrounds