Darren Parry Tending the Sacred Book Signing

Park City Museum will host a book signing with Darren Parry, author of the book Tending the Sacred, on Friday, August 29th from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Park City Museum located at 528 Main Street. Darren spoke about his book and philosophy of the environmental and spiritual wisdom during the lecture he held for the Museum in May called The Land is Alive: Indigenous Views on Nature. His new book just recently was published. The Museum will have copies to buy that night.

Tending the Sacred is a reflection on the deep environmental and spiritual wisdom held within Indigenous lifeways. Drawing from his Shoshone heritage and lived experience as a tribal elder and storyteller, Darren Parry shares teachings that center on kinship, humility, and a sacred relationship with the Earth. The book challenges modern systems of consumption, disconnection, and dominance, offering instead a worldview rooted in reciprocity and respect. It speaks to the urgency of our environmental crisis and the need to return to Indigenous values that see land not as property or resource, but as a living relative. This work is both a memoir and a call to action—urging readers to reimagine how we live on this planet by honoring ancestral knowledge and tending the sacred relationships that sustain life.

Darren Parry is the former Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Darren serves on the Board of Directors for Utah Humanities and the PBS Utah. He attended the University of Utah and Weber State University and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Education. In 2024, he received an Honorary PhD in Education from Utah State University. Darren is the author of “The Bear River Massacre, A Shoshone History” and teaches in the Environmental Humanities department at the University of Utah. He lectures around the country on Native American issues surrounding history and Indigenous views related to sustainability. He recently gave a lecture at the University of Copenhagen and spoke about Indigenous views to Climate and Environment. His passions in life are his wife Melody, 7 children and 17 grandchildren. His other passion is his Tribal family. He wants to make sure that those who have gone before him are not forgotten.