On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape /
On Zion's Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians--and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Mt. Timpanogos with "Indian" meaning.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Liquid antecedents
- Ute genesis, Mormon exodus
- Brigham Young and the famine of the Fish-Eaters
- The desertification of Zion
- pt. 2. Making a mountain : alpine play
- Rocky Mountain Saints
- Hiking into modern times
- Sundance and suburbia
- pt. 3. Marking a mountain : Indian play
- Renaming the land
- The rise and fall of a lover's leap
- Performing a remembered past.