An excerpt:
“In 1990 the Kaibab Paiute turned down hundreds of millions of dollars by refusing to allow a hazardous waste incinerator on the sliver of ancestral lands they still held, along the North rim of Grand Canyon. It was elder Bill Tom’s final wish that they deny the incinerator. All night they sang to Bill’s confused soul, guiding him through the landscape of the dead, helping him leap to the next world. Impressed by their decision, their ceremony, I asked to see interviews of different elders. That they didn’t exist was the genesis for this book…”
To read more of William Logan Hebner’s story, and see more of Michael L Plyler’s photography, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2011/07/28/excerpt-southern-paiute-a-portrait/
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