Another roadside attraction for Bears Ears; another insult of the Ancient Ones by settler-colonists (excuse the jargon)
What does it mean? ( Rewrite, Nov. 28, 2020: Discovered by Utah wildlife biologists on Nov. 18, the obelisk was gone 10 days later – to the dismay of hundreds of tourists who had managed to discover its whereabouts thanks to the Internet and flocked to the site. ) By BILL KESHLEAR The story about the mysterious obelisk of San Juan County is everywhere. It made news from the South China Morning Post to The New York Times to Al-Jazeera and has drawn comments from all corners, including Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune . For the global news outlets, the "Big Foots," it's morphed into a whodunit. What seemed to matter most, at least in the Salt Lake Tribune's account, was the artistic medium (minimalist sculpture) and installation process (deliberate), at least to historian Patricia Limerick, if not law enforcers or critics of creation of the national monument who fully expected this kind of stuff to happen and fully expect more to come