{"product_id":"on-zions-mount-mormons-indians-and-the-american-landscape-9780674047433","title":"On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eShrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no \"Indian\" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it--once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. \u003ci\u003eOn Zion's Mount\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself \"native\" in a strange land. But it is also a complex tale of how cultures confer meaning on the environment--how they create homelands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sense--an endemic spiritual geography. They called it \"Zion.\" Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as \"Lamanites,\" or spiritual kin. \u003ci\u003eOn Zion's Mount\u003c\/i\u003e shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians--and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Timpanogos with \"Indian\" meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed \"Indian\" place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those places--cultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarmer, Jared:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jared Farmer is Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University and author of \u003ci\u003eGlen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412779798802,"sku":"9780674047433","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_256cd729-b365-446c-8093-a1698c66ec3c.jpg?v=1729327466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-zions-mount-mormons-indians-and-the-american-landscape-9780674047433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}