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A 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist ""An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape..."" --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.

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""An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape...Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise...scholars and grass-roots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers."" --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ""This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it's their illumination of Native Americans' kinship to land that make these texts such an important read...The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves."" --THE DESERET NEWS ""Edge of Morning will...invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands."" --THE UTAH REVIEW ""This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness...a worthy project."" --THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS ""Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human."" --FOREWORD REVIEWS

"""An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape...Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise...scholars and grass-roots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers."" --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ""This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it's their illumination of Native Americans' kinship to land that make these texts such an important read...The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves."" --THE DESERET NEWS ""Edge of Morning will...invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands."" --THE UTAH REVIEW ""This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness...a worthy project."" --THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS ""Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human."" --FOREWORD REVIEWS"

An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape...Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise...scholars and grass-roots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers. --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it's their illumination of Native Americans' kinship to land that make these texts such an important read...The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves. --THE DESERET NEWS Edge of Morning will...invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands. --THE UTAH REVIEW This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness...a worthy project. --THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human. --FOREWORD REVIEWS

An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape...Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise...scholars and grass-roots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers. --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it's their illumination of Native Americans' kinship to land that make these texts such an important read...The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves. --THE DESERET NEWS Edge of Morning will...invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands. --THE UTAH REVIEW This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness...a worthy project. --THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human. --FOREWORD REVIEWS

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JACQUELINE KEELER is a Navajo/Dakota writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, which seeks to end the use of racial groups as mascots, as well as the use of other stereotypical representations in popular culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Indian Country Today, Earth Island Journal, Salon.com, and elsewhere.

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