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WEBTom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi.
Storytelling is vital to many Indigenous cultures, but preserving …
WEBOct 29, 2021 — Humans share knowledge through storytelling – historians retell the events of the past, scientists present narratives of their experiments. For many Indigenous American tribes, oral traditions are central to the transmission of knowledge.
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Utah's LGBTQ+ community celebrates with annual Pride Parade
WEBJun 8, 2023 — 4 of 4. This past weekend, the nonprofit Utah Pride Center held their annual Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. On Sunday, the last day of the festival, the morning began with the Pride Parade. According to Utah Pride, the parade is the largest event of its kind in all of Utah.
'The History Of The Bear River' on Wild About Utah
WEBJun 14, 2019 — The Bear River once flowed north, serving as a tributary of the Snake River, and ultimately reached the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River. That is until about 140,000 years ago when the Earth erupted in present-day southeast Idaho and spilled lava across the Bear River's path. Now obstructed by …
Utah Skies: the Orionid meteor shower peaks on October 21st
WEBOct 20, 2021 — The Orionids take place from October 2 to November 7. They peak in the morning of October 21st. During a meteor shower the earth is passing through debris left from a comet. In the case of the. Orionids the earth is passing through material left by Halley’s Comet. Observers on the earth last saw Halley’s comet in 1986.
Police officers and unions put up a fight against vaccine mandates …
WEBOct 19, 2021 — Becky Sullivan has reported and produced for NPR since 2011 with a focus on hard news and breaking stories. She has been on the ground to cover natural disasters, disease outbreaks, elections and protests, delivering stories to …
The Bar J Wranglers are singing their farewell after 44 years
WEBDec 17, 2021 — Listen • 4:00. The Bar J Wranglers. The Bar J Wranglers at the Chuckwagon. The western singing cowboy isn’t a style of music you hear much anymore, but one band in Jackson Hole, Wyoming has been keeping the spirit of cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry alive for 44 years. The Bar J Wranglers at the Bar J Chuckwagon is a family business ...
Utah Pride parade & festival returns for first time in 3 years
WEBPublished June 7, 2022 at 8:14 AM MDT. Daniel James. /. Unsplash. For the first time in three years, members of the LGBTQ community gathered together in downtown Salt Lake City for the Pride Festival and Pride Parade. Earlier this month, Gov. Spencer Cox issued an official proclamation marking June as “Pride Month” for the LGBTQ community ...
The Grand Canyon Has Always Faced Water Problems, This Year …
WEBAug 9, 2021 — The Colorado River is grappling with shortages this year. But it was a very different story nearly thirty years ago. High flows coming through a dam just upstream of the Grand Canyon were ripping it apart.