TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Grandfather Tree'
T2 - Ute horror at the killing of a Heritage Tree
AU - Stoffle, Richard
AU - Naranjo, Alden
AU - Sittler, Chris
AU - Slivka, Kelly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper illustrates that epistemological barriers can stand in the way of communication about, and understanding of, natural heritage resources. This common problem becomes explicit by using the 2017 killing of a living Ute 'Grandfather Tree' in Delta, Colorado. The 260-year-old tree, which was recognised as culturally central to the three Ute Indian Tribes and the people of the State of Colorado, was cut down while still alive by the Delta County Historical Society. Communication about this action was short, one-sided, and clouded by the contrasting beliefs of the two parties: i.e., to Euro-Americans the tree was just wood without rights, while to the Ute people the tree was a living grandfather with full rights to exist.
AB - This paper illustrates that epistemological barriers can stand in the way of communication about, and understanding of, natural heritage resources. This common problem becomes explicit by using the 2017 killing of a living Ute 'Grandfather Tree' in Delta, Colorado. The 260-year-old tree, which was recognised as culturally central to the three Ute Indian Tribes and the people of the State of Colorado, was cut down while still alive by the Delta County Historical Society. Communication about this action was short, one-sided, and clouded by the contrasting beliefs of the two parties: i.e., to Euro-Americans the tree was just wood without rights, while to the Ute people the tree was a living grandfather with full rights to exist.
KW - 'Living Grandfather Tree'
KW - Colorado
KW - Colorado Native Americans
KW - Delta
KW - Delta County Historical Society
KW - Environmental heritage communication
KW - Epistemological divide
KW - Settler colonialism
KW - Ute Indian Culture
KW - Ute Indian tribes
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055819038
VL - 13
SP - 36
EP - 49
JO - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
JF - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
SN - 1975-3586
ER -