Oral Histories
“It’s a Different World”: Using Oral Histories to Explore Working-Class Perceptions of Environmental Change
You can see a lot from atop a horse, and Doy Reidhead has. He is the iconic Marlboro cowboy forty years later, slim as a whip, hands calloused and leathered by the sun, eyes narrowed to a permanent squint. Part of his jaw is gone from the decades of holding chaw—he switched the plug to [...]
See the Exhibit at Flagstaff’s Pioneer Museum
Visit Flagstaff’s Pioneer Museum to see a multimedia exhibit based on our oral history project. View and hear the stories of ranchers, Native farmers, foresters, and other elders who’ve watched the land for decades.
What Has Passed and What Remains: The Book
The edited recollections of northern Arizona elders musing about environmental change. I conducted some of the interviews; others were completed by my students at Northern Arizona University. With photos by Dan Boone and Ryan Belnap.
Ecological Oral Histories
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away when they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other’s memory. This is how people care for themselves.” —Barry Lopez Since 2005, I’ve been working [...]
