[…] helping excited kids learn their parts. I was just seven years old, a small girl with waist -length black hair wearing a paper feather and headband. As I looked around at the other children, […]
[…] to Indigenous land. I believe that BYU and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints need to recognize that colonial constructs such as the Doctrine of Discovery and the belief […]
[…] in the relationships with Indigenous people at BYU and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. Roni Jo Draper, a BYU professor of teacher education and a member of the Yurok […]
[…] Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six -eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep that they had been […]
[…] to be stewards to the environment and have been saddened by the political reality that most Latter -day Saints easily dismiss these exhortations because of our faith’s attraction to the larger conservative movement in […]
[…] is a running theme or a coherent message that bubbles up through the macadam of its thirty -one distinctive essays. But I think I only suspect this, perhaps in part because of the recurrence […]
[…] But this is not the essay’s reputation. Ideals of ironclad arguments, footnoted discoveries, academese, and the red -inked, professorial careful!s have spoiled for numberless students the otherwise dignified practice of tinkering in the mind’s […]
[…] the ground once it has been broken. Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon is a seed -planting book that, if properly cultivated, could lead to bumper crops in the various disciplines of American […]
[…] the collection Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. I approached the book as an Indigenous, Latter -day Saint woman, steeped in both my Yurok culture and my Mormon faith—one by birth and one […]
Although Darren Parry claims to not begrudge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, he does not hold back when addressing the injustices and wrongs that his people have faced at the […]