Spring/Summer 2019

The University of Utah Press Utah of University The SPRING/SUMMER 2019 contents American Indian Studies 1-2 Reflections on 70 years of publishing Autobiography 3 Archaeology/Anthropology 8-11 Biography, Autobiography 3, 5 irthdays and anniversaries are occasions for reflection. As the BUniversity of Utah Press approaches its seventieth anniversary, I’m Mormon Studies 2-4 pleased to take a moment to consider what the press has accomplished Nature and Environment 12 in seventy years. I and the other University of Utah Press staff believe in our work and know that it matters. We chose careers in university Poetry 6 press publishing for reasons of intellectual curiosity and the love of Utah 5, 12 making books. We share a basic belief that our publications matter, that they add to the scope of human knowledge, engage wider intellectual Western History 4, 7 debates, and explore deeper truths. National Park Reader Series 12-13 The Press has promoted this same belief since 1949, when university president A. Ray Olpin established it as part of his post–World War Stegner Lecture Series 14 II expansion of the university. Under director Harold W. Bentley, the Distribution Partners 15 Press published its first book, New Teeth for Old by Victor H. Sears. This little volume about dentures begins with the worrying exclamation, “So New in Paper 16 you’re going to lose your teeth!” before advising readers to “be glad you Featured Backlist 17-20 do not have to go around without any teeth at all.” Wise words. Essential Backlist 21-24 The first volume of the twelve-volume Florentine Codex by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, easily among the Press’s most important contributions to scholarship, followed in 1951. Anderson and Dibble’s massive translation project took more than ten years to com- plete and is respected worldwide as the premiere English translation of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Nahuatl record on the lifeways and traditions of the Aztecs, written between 1540 and 1585. The Florentine Codex has long been available in hardcover and paperback and the Press looks forward to collaborating with a larger Getty Research Institute project to create a digital version. The University of Utah Anthropological Papers (UUAP) also rank among the Press’s earliest publications and continue as our longest-run- ning series. By working with the Marriott Library’s Special Collections Department and the University of Utah’s Anthropology Department, the Press was able to locate all of the long-out-of-print volumes in the UUAP series. That they are in print once again speaks to the importance of the enduring professional partnerships the Press has forged across Follow us on FaceBook, Twitter, and campus over the last seven decades. Instagram @UOFUPRESS Over time, the Press’s publications have changed to reflect shifts in university priorities, the expertise of our acquisitions staff, and the COVER IMAGE: Spring Canyon reflections, 2009, from The ever-changing scholarly landscape. Anthropology, archaeology, and Capitol Reef Reader (p 12). Photo by Stephen Trimble. titles related to Mesoamerica remain important to our mission, which to varying degrees now also includes books in western and Utah his- Our Mission tory, Mormon studies, Middle East studies, American Indian studies, The University of Utah Press is an agency of the J. environmental humanities and history, natural history, nature writing, Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah. In accordance with the mission of the University, creative nonfiction, linguistics, folklore studies, and titles of regional the Press publishes and disseminates scholarly interest. In our seventy-year history we’ve published a celebrated list of books in selected fields and other printed and authors whose books have achieved wide recognition and won numer- recorded materials of significance to Utah, the ous awards. I encourage you to visit UofUpress.com to have a look. region, the country, and the world. This catalog demonstrates many of the Press’s current priorities, with two excellent books on Native American autobiography and history leading the way. Please take a moment to browse the titles gathered here. We hope you will see your own interests reflected in the books published by the University of Utah Press. Glenda Cotter, director The University of Utah Press is a member the university of utah press of the Association of University Presses. www.UofUpress.com AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND 1 MEMOIR One Voice Rising ORDERS: 800-621-2736 The Life of Clifford Duncan Clifford Duncan with Linda Sillitoe Photographs by George R. Janecek Foreword by Forrest Cuch WWW.UOFUPRESS.COM A Ute leader reflects on his life and on tribal history ne Voice Rising is the memoir of a Ute healer, Ohistorian, and elder as told to writer Linda Sillitoe. Clifford Duncan (1933–2014) was a tribal official and medicine man, a museum director, a trained lay archaeologist, an artist, a U.S. Army veteran, and a leader in the Native American Church. In this text, Duncan reflects on personal and tribal history during a crucial period in the tribe’s development. His discussions with Sillitoe offer a unique look at individual and societal issues, including the Native American Church, powwows and tribal cel- June 2019, 288 pp., 8.5 x 9 ebrations, and interactions with the larger world. George 100 Illustrations Janecek’s intimate photographs of Clifford Duncan 978-1-60781-687-4 eBook 978-1-60781-703-1 Hardcover $49.95 and his world expand the impact of Duncan’s words. 978-1-60781-686-7 Paper $29.95 “Everything was Indian then, when I was a boy. They had to explain to us about the white man’s side. Now everything is in the white man’s world and we teach Indian ways.”—Clifford Duncan (from the book) Clifford Duncan (1933–2014) was a Ute elder and healer as well as a museum director, archaeologist, artist, U.S. Army veteran, and a leader in the Native American Church. ALSO OF INTEREST Linda Sillitoe (1948–2010) was a poet, journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her books include Friendly Fire: A History of the ACLU in Utah and Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (coauthored with Allen D. Roberts). George Janecek is a well-known documentary photographer based in Salt Lake City. He has worked for Life and other magazines, and his work has been published in several books. “The work’s significance is two-fold: the subject is of great current interest and no other work on Ute medicine has been done in the last fifty years. The work is unique for its time and place.” —Floyd O’Neil, formally director emeritus of the American West Center, University Being and Becoming Ute of Utah The Story of an American Indian People Sondra G. Jones “Offers important insights into the life of an extraordinary man, a eBook 978-1-60781-658-4 Ute man who was highly regarded by many of his people. This work Hardcover 978-1-60781-666-9 $70.00 makes a huge contribution as it is one of very few publications dealing Paper 978-1-60781-657-7 $29.95 with the actual life experiences of a Ute Indian. And it is a publication Confessions of an Iyeska that draws as much from the past as from the present times.” Viola Burnette —Forrest Cuch, editor of A History of Utah’s American Indians eBook 978-1-60781-640-9 Paper 978-1-60781-639-3 $24.95 2 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES / MORMON STUDIES Essays on American Indian and Mormon History Edited by P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink Places American Indian perspectives at the center SPRING/SUMMER 2019 SPRING/SUMMER of American Indian and Mormon history merican Indians have long played a central role in AMormon history and its narratives. Their roles, how- ever, have often been cast in support of traditional Mor- mon beliefs and as a reaffirmation of colonial discourses. This collection of essays, many the result of a THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY UTAH THE OF seminar hosted by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, explores the historical and cultural complexities of this narrative from a decolonizing perspective. Essays cover the historical construction of the “Lamanite,” settler colonialism and the Book of Mormon, and connections between the Sen- eca leader Handsome Lake and Joseph Smith. Authors June 2019, 440 pp., 6 x 9 also address American Indian Mormon tribal identities, 6 Illustrations Navajo and Mormon participation at the dedication of 978-1-60781-691-1 eBook 978-1-60781-690-4 Hardcover $45.00s Glen Canyon Dam, the impact of Mormon Polynesian missionaries in Diné Bikéyah, the ISPP, and other topics. Prominent American Indian Mormon voices lend their creative work and personal experiences to the book. With the aim of avoiding familiar narrative pat- terns of settler colonialism, contributors seek to make American Indians the subjects rather than the objects of discussion in relation to Mormons, presenting new ways to explore and reframe these relationships. ALSO OF INTEREST P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of Reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and editor of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera. Brenden W. Rensink is assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young Univer- sity. He is the author of Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refu- gees in the North American Borderlands. “This volume will improve considerably the field of Mormon studies by contributing to its critical and intersectional turn.

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