Behind the Bears Ears

Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape

By: R. E. Burrillo

Narrated by: Charles Constant

FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR'S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION

For more than twelve thousand years, the redrock landscape of southeastern Utah has shaped the lives of everyone who calls it home. R. E. Burrillo takes listeners on a journey of discovery through the stories and controversies that make this place so unique, from traces of its earliest inhabitants through its role in shaping the study of archaeology itself—and into the modern battle over its protection.

©2020 R. E. Burrillo (P)2023 Tantor

Education of a tourist

Having been to many of the places that are mentioned in this book, it meant a great deal to me to understand the deeper problems. I have always loved the West and I had a chance to live there for several years. I attended classes at Southwest Seminars in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That began my education. I came as one of those tourists and left a better person.
I wish I could go back and see the red cliffs, the bright sky and rain clouds drifting across the desert. I wish I could be a site steward again, walking in the desert, kicking up dust, eating the berries along the trail, watching the birds, beetles and ants, and checking out the petroglyphs, measuring and recording them for the state archives and making sure no one had desecrated them, drawn graffiti with their markers or knives, kicked down the walls. It was only the beginning of what I thought would be a long life of learning and work when I had to leave because of health problems. This book brought it all back and I will reread it just to see in my mind the West I love.

An excellent addition to my understanding of the overwhelming awe of the Four Corners!

Having recently returned from the area and investigating everything I can get my ears on about The Bears Ears complexities, I can appreciate the updated outlook for the future of a place that has to be protected from every attempt to extract and destroy such an important legacy by incessant greed. Aren’t lessons ever learned?

woke

I thought this was going to be about history instead it was an indoctrination into woke ideology