CONTRIBUTORS
NONFICTION
- Christopher Zumski Finke —
Will You Speak Before I Am Gone
- Erica Bloom — Through the
Heart of It
- M Jackson — Ice in
Isolation
- Rebecca Solnit — The
Limits of Landscape
- Douglas H. Chadwick — Why
We Go A-Wolverining
- Kathleen Yale —
Revival
- Beth Raboin — A Love
Letter
FICTION
- Brian Schott — Love is a
Bear
POETRY
- Elaine Dugas Shea — Berry
Soup
- Elaine Dugas Shea — Kyi-Yo
Traditional, Grass, Jingle Dress and Fancy
- Rick White — on our backs:
many glacier
- Harrison Rutledge — Stan
Meets Hank
- Grace Brogan — Ground
- Maya Jewell Zeller — The
Rust Fish 4
- Maya Jewell Zeller — The
Rust Fish 5
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Sarah Weatherby (Front
Cover)
- M Jackson (Back
Cover)
- Grace Brogan
- Tony Bynum
- Bob Friend
- Beth Gibson
- Sarah Mintz
- Elizabeth Ruff
- Liz Williams
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With
financial support from Humanities Montana, Camas has
directed the focus of its Summer 2010 issue onto Glacier National
Park—its people, its history, and its magnificent landscapes—in
honor of the park's 100th anniversary.
The Glacier Centennial
Program's mission is "to celebrate the rich history of
preservation, inspire personal connections and partnerships through
the commemoration, and engage future park stewards." These ideals
fall directly in line with the ways in which Camas seeks to
remain respectfully rooted in the storied history of the American
West, while moving forward towards the new ideas and perspectives
that arise with successive generations of writers and artists.
From Erica Bloom's "Through the Heart of It"...
"The
Kootenai people have always been on this land," Vernon tells me and
sits back on his brown leather chair. "For 10,000 generations we
have wandered through this region, traveling with the seasons to
hunt for buffalo." Though he speaks slowly I write frantically,
careful not to miss the details of his stories, aware that these
words will be spoken many more times this year in honor of the
Glacier Park Centennial. It's early March and I've come to Elmo,
Montana, today to listen to a man whose ancestral history weaves
through Glacier like the roads that now cut through its forests.
With a population of 150, by the time I realized I was in Elmo I
had already passed through. The town sits on the banks of Flathead
Lake. The front of the Kootenai Cultural Center building faces
northeast, the direction of Glacier National Park. Vernon Finely,
the language specialist for the Kootenai Cultural Committee, works
in the carpeted trailer behind the Center. With his graying
ponytail and warm smile he describes his job as a preservation of
culture, a teacher of an endangered language.
About Camas...
Camas is a literary magazine published in the Environmental
Studies Graduate Program of the University of Montana. Camas
is created and produced completely by graduate students in the
Environmental Studies department. Their goals are to encourage a
dialogue on environmental and cultural issues in the West,
celebrate the people who work, study, write, and live here, and to
provide an opportunity for students and emerging writers to publish
their work alongside established environmental authors.
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