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Wild Rose Press (Self-Published) Edition of 250 Publication: Spring 2018 Letter Press cover Hand bound with wax thread at Salt Grass Printmakers in Salt Lake City, Utah Photocopy printed 56-pages

Bears Ears zine includes 30 photographs and an essay by Russel Albert Daniels, a poem by Denae Shanidiin, and an essay by Terry Tempest Williams.

Bears Ears zine reveals the sacredness, beauty, and mystery of this significant cultural landscape. For 13,000 years Native Americans have continuously inhabited the mesa tops, evergreen forests, and redrock canyons of the Greater Bears Ears area. This high desert landscape includes over 100,000 vulnerable archaeological sites from various populations; cliff dwellings, kivas, rock art images, and burial grounds.

Bears Ears photozine emphasizes the Antiquities Act proposal created by a five tribe coalition - Navajo, Uintah & Ouray Ute, Hopi, Zuni, and Ute Mountain Ute Nations - in 2015, the coalition released the proposal that protects and preserves the cultural and natural resources inside Bears Ears. The core of the proposal is focused on spiritual and land stewardship.

This proposal protects the Bears Ears National Monument landscape from fossil fuel and uranium development.

Before Mormon settlers and John C. Fremont “discovered” Antelope Island archeological evidence show that Native people have been living on the island for at least 2000 years and I doubt they called it “Antelope.” Caves nearby, along the extinct Ice Age Lake Bonneville shoreline, have proven that humans have been living in these areas for at least 14,000 years. Mammoth blood has been found on large spear points. Antelope Island is seen here from Grandeur Peak in the Wasatch Mountains.

Rainbow Squares square dancing club. Salt Lake City, Utah

My great, great grandma Rose on the left. She was Diné captured/trafficked by White River Utes in 1845 at the age of 5. I’m assuming this photo is probably circa 1910-20’s.

This place needs you help. Learn more about my limited edition Bears Ears zine. Includes an essay by Terry Tempest Williams and a poem by Denae Shanidiin.