Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands (Keeler) and American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West (Quammen)
Amid a growing militia movement, protests for Black Lives, and an incoming Biden administration, many across the country are reimagining what the American identity looks like. In their latest books, Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer and journalist Jacqueline Keeler and conservationist and historian Betsy Gaines Quammen interrogate the cowboy mythos that has fueled today's nationwide militia movement while envisioning a more equitable society in which long-ignored histories are finally honored.
Jacqueline and Betsy will discuss Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands (Keeler) and American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West (Quammen) on
Wednesday, May 12
6 PM on Zoom
Country Bookshelf
Bozeman, MT
About Standoff:
The Bundy takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's standoff against an oil pipeline in North Dakota are two sides of the same story that created America and its deep-rooted cultural conflicts. Through a compelling comparison of conflicting beliefs and legal systems, Keeler explores whether the West has really been won—and for whom.
About American Zion:
What happens when members of an American religion—one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship—assert possession over western federal lands, armed with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? American Zion is the story of the ongoing feud between Mormon ranching family the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys’ cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage.
About Jacqueline Keeler:
Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is editor of the anthology Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears and has contributed to many publications including The Nation, Yes! magazine, and Salon.
About Betsy Gaines Quammen:
Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and conservationist. She received a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. She has studied various religious traditions over the years, with particular attention to how cultures view landscape and wildlife. The rural American west, pastoral communities of northern Mongolia, and the grasslands of East Africa have been her main areas of interest. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a café in Kanab, Utah, Betsy has settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, two huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots.
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