southwestern Utah
This is the land I was raised on, by, with, and because of. It exists between the edges of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert. Because of its inbetweeness, it holds a unique ecology and a dramatic landscape. This area is the homeland of the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiutes) and the See'veets eng (Shivwits) band continue to reside there. The muddy Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado, flows out from the canyons of Zion National Park and passes through the town I was raised with/in. This is where my spiritual connection to land began as I followed sandy washes, scrambled on red sandstone formations, and laid under the hot desert sun and its deeply blue sky in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area.
Near the mid-1800's LDS colonists were sent there to attempt to grow cotton and other arid-climate plants. There were a number LDS migrants from the Southern States of the U.S., and they named the area, "Utah's Dixie" which is the namesake of Dixie National Forest. Below are two maps that show the boundaries of these different spaces. Notice the undulating lines of the ecoregions' edges and the rectilinear lines of edges of federally designated spaces.
see also: acknowledge, decolonization, Deseret, ebb / flow, Great Basin, home, map, migration, Red (Cliffs National Conservation Area), rocks / stones, spiritual experience, there / their, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner
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This is the land I was raised on, by, with, and because of. It exists between the edges of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert. Because of its inbetweeness, it holds a unique ecology and a dramatic landscape. This area is the homeland of the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiutes) and the See'veets eng (Shivwits) band continue to reside there. The muddy Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado, flows out from the canyons of Zion National Park and passes through the town I was raised with/in. This is where my spiritual connection to land began as I followed sandy washes, scrambled on red sandstone formations, and laid under the hot desert sun and its deeply blue sky in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area.
Near the mid-1800's LDS colonists were sent there to attempt to grow cotton and other arid-climate plants. There were a number LDS migrants from the Southern States of the U.S., and they named the area, "Utah's Dixie" which is the namesake of Dixie National Forest. Below are two maps that show the boundaries of these different spaces. Notice the undulating lines of the ecoregions' edges and the rectilinear lines of edges of federally designated spaces.
see also: acknowledge, decolonization, Deseret, ebb / flow, Great Basin, home, map, migration, Red (Cliffs National Conservation Area), rocks / stones, spiritual experience, there / their, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner
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satellite view with outline of Colorado Plateau, Mojave desert, and Great Basin
satellite view with Zion National Park, Dixie National Forest, Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, and Shivwits Reservation outlined
