Arianne Baadsgaard Cope

ARIANNE BAADSGAARD COPE is former managing editor of the award-winning Tremonton Leader and winner of the 2004 Utah Press Associa￾tion's prize for her editor's column. Formerly on the New Era staff, she has also written for the Friend and the Ensign. Her grandparents were among the first fos￾ter families in the Indian Placement Program, and "White Shell" is adapted from The Coming of Elijah, a novel in progress. She, her husband, Jared, and their chil￾dren, Samuel and Sophia, live in Logan, Utah.

White Shell

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4

There are pieces of white shell sifted with the sands and soils of Dinetah that confuse newcomers and outsiders. Tourists look at the shells like puzzle pieces, trying to force them into what they know.…

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