“[It] is a biography of the animal from its evolutionary origins in the American Southwest five million years ago, its role in inspiring the principal deity of many western Indian tribes, to its 21st century spread across North America and colonization of America's largest cities,” said Flores. “Along the way I'll try to explain how its evolutionary adaptations, so similar to ours, has coyotes mirroring our own successes, one of the reasons it continues as an animal avatar for us in modern culture."
Dan Flores is a cultural and environmental historian of the American West. The author of ten books, Flores’ work focuses on a longue durée approach. According to the Western Folklife Center’s website, Flores’s work encompasses “both history and the present so that today’s westerners can strive to make decisions that promote the long-term health of the land.”
Flores has written widely about western animals, including bison and wild horses, and has two forthcoming books to be released in 2016, titled: American Serengenti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, and Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History. Flores was also a keynote speaker for this year's National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
]]>Historian Dan Flores' talk on Coyote America to Dr. Jonathan Foster's HIST 102 (U.S. History since 1877) class at GBC, 28 January 2016.
Event sponsered by Nevada Humanities and the Western Folklife Center.
Dan Flores speaks about his forthcoming book, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (New York: Basic Books, June 2016):
“[It] is a biography of the animal from its evolutionary origins in the American Southwest five million years ago, its role in inspiring the principal deity of many western Indian tribes, to its 21st century spread across North America and colonization of America's largest cities,” said Flores. “Along the way I'll try to explain how its evolutionary adaptations, so similar to ours, has coyotes mirroring our own successes, one of the reasons it continues as an animal avatar for us in modern culture."
Dan Flores is a cultural and environmental historian of the American West. The author of ten books, Flores’ work focuses on a longue durée approach. According to the Western Folklife Center’s website, Flores’s work encompasses “both history and the present so that today’s westerners can strive to make decisions that promote the long-term health of the land.”
Flores has written widely about western animals, including bison and wild horses, and has two forthcoming books to be released in 2016, titled: American Serengenti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, and Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History. Flores was also a keynote speaker for this year's National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
The event was co-sponsored by NTI, Nevada Humanities, the Nevada Historical Society, the Nevada Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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]]>A brief look at the 1967 creation of the Elko Community College, the predecessor of Great Basin College, as related by original college founders Robley "Bob" Burns, Jr., Mark and Katherine Chilton, Dr. Hugh Collett, and Michael Marfisi.
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]]>On 21 January 2016, the VHC hosted a faculty in-service on strategies to use discussions to promote critical thinking, particularly in online classes. The workshop was presented by GBC faculty members Scott A. Gavorsky, Kathy Schwandt, and Joshua Webster.
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Laura Stark Rainey is a Western Shoshone from the Ely Shoshone Tribe part of the Western Shoshone Nation. Laura took us on a tour of the Cave Lake State Park and surrounding areas describing the hunting and gathering practices of the Western Shoshone. She also tells us of the U.S. Calvary and the Spring Valley or Swamp Cedar Massacre, as well as other interactions with the Shoshone and the government. And in extension how much of the land has been taken into BLM or federal hands. She also speaks about her ambition to start a heritage center devoted to the Shoshone. She ends her oral history by telling us about her life, her husband, and her education in engineering.
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Nicholas Vrooman's talk on the history of the Little Shell Tribe to Dr. John Patrick Rice's COM 101 class at GBC on 28 January 2016.
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