[…] written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is his book Blood of the […]
Already the heart -shaped dish on my end table lies combed bare: long strips dug out ============== a cleaning out ============== a scratch in grain, table scraps lain out so comely, meaning to love […]
VII. Sometimes I kneel down to play a gamefrom my childhood. Only then can I feelgrains of gravel, each pebble digs in so real.Sometimes I act as though I am the same,a young girl, rope…
[…] His father, Muse K. Harris, was Ute and my grandmother, Ivy Mae Harris, was anglo, a second -generation Latter–day Saint of pioneer stock. My father’s grandmother, Great–grandmother Mary Reed Harris, said her own grandmother […]
[…] my heroes, but I never imagined that he would be a hero on the frontlines against COVID -19. He told me and my family in a Zoom video meeting from his trailer in Monument […]
From my youth I was blessed with a God -shaped hole in my identity. I knew I came from somewhere, that my ancestors were whole and bore a cultural armor that it was my […]
[…] Americans as fallen Israelites who, the Book of Mormon promised, would someday join Mormons in Zion. Latter -day Saints never quite realized those expectations in New York, nor in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois, and […]
[…] belief in racial hierarchy that we need to forsake. Maybe it’s the idea and labels of “ -ites” that we need to abolish. In 2006, President Gordon B. Hinckley gave a general conference talk […]
[…] nation and apologised to Indigenous Australians, people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, for the so -called “Stolen Generations.” These infamous eugenicist policies of forced removal and institutionalisation, in existence from the early […]
One hundred seventy -two years ago this coming Wednesday, July 24, the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, which was to be their new home. Being mostly a desert, it […]