Bears Ears

Landscape of Refuge and Resistance

Andrew Gulliford

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University of Utah Press,U.S.
30 November 2022

Memorials, monuments; Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; The natural world, country life & pets; Local history

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 between 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 for Native Americans who seek to preserve their ancestral homes, and for the descendants of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880.

Gulliford’s engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, 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 a relevant topic for years to come.

By: Andrew Gulliford
Imprint: University of Utah Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781647690779
ISBN 10: 1647690773
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 30 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is an award-winning author whose books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; and The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes.

Reviews for Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance

This is a significant contribution to a current controversy. It presents multiple sides of questions fairly. In the ongoing arguments over Bears Ears, Gulliford's book will be a resource and a reference. It presents an excellent history of Bears Ears and surrounding southeastern Utah. --Steve Lekson, author of A Study of Southwestern Archaeology Andrew Gulliford's long experience with the lands and people of Utah's San Juan County is apparent in this fair-minded, richly informative historical account. He shows how the Bears Ears National Monument became such a charged public issue and what can be learned from the ongoing struggle to protect it. --John D. Leshy, author of Our Common Ground: A New History of America's Public Lands