FINDING LOST FOODS Illustration by Elizabeth Lord, BFA ’04.
SEVERAL DIRT MILES OUTSIDE NAVAJO MOUNTAIN, DOWN AN ISOLATED CANYON NAVIGABLE ONLY BY FOOT OR FOUR-WHEELER, A GROVE OF PEACH TREES SWAYS NEAR A CREEK.
NOW, IF ONLY THEY WOULD TALK. REAGAN Wytsalucy (MS ’19) SPENT THE LAST SIX YEARS TRYING TO COAX THEIR STORY FROM SEEDS SHE PLANTED NEARLY 600 MILES NORTH IN THATCHER, UTAH. THEY ARE JUST STARTING TO WHISPER.
“I
by Kristen Munson
grew up very distanced from my culture,” she says.
The research helps fill “a hole” she felt growing up across the border from Navajo Nation in Gallup, New Mexico. Although many of Wytsalucy’s relatives live on the reservation, she doesn’t speak Navajo. Her journey to learn her culture’s old ways SPRING 2019 I UTAHSTATE
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