October 2024 | Vol. 06 Iss. 10
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SAVOR THE SALT FINDING CREATIVE WAYS TO SAVE THE GREAT SALT LAKE By Jolene Croasmun | j.croasmun@mycityjournals.com
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avor the Salt is a free celebration of the Great Salt Lake happening at Millcreek Common on Thursday, Oct. 10 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the sixth floor of Millcreek’s city hall building. The Great Salt Lake is a unique and vital part of our state and community events like Savor the Salt hope to open our minds to find creative ways to save our lake. “Saving the Great Salt Lake is not a science problem, it is a value problem. To change people’s paradigm or perspective, you do it through storytelling, art, music or mediums that change your heart,” said Elder Darren Parry of the Shoshone tribe and former chairman of the Northwestern band of Shoshone Nation. Parry is an author, storyteller, public speaker and educator. He currently teaches indigenous perspectives to the environment at the University of Utah and will be speaking at Savor the Salt. “Native Americans have a relationship with water, we consider it like a relative. My grandmother, Mae Timbimboo Parry, always called the Great Salt Lake my other grandmother and when you look at water or land as a relative and not a commodity, you treat it differently,” Parry said. “My grandmother would take me on plant walks on the island and show me which plants were edible and the ones that were used for medicine and so I grew up looking at things through a different lens. When we would leave the island, we would sing a healing song to make sure our grandmother, the lake, would be healthy.” The Shoshone people have a long history with the lake. Continued page 08
Rusted boats on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. (John Brown/Millcreek)
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