Affiliated Ute Citizens of the State of Utah

  The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre In January 1863 over two hundred Shoshoni men, women, and children died on the banks of the Bear River at the hands of volunteer soldiers from California. Bear River was one of the largest Indian massacres in the Trans-Mississippi West, yet the massacre has gone almost unnoticed as it occurred during a time when national attention was focused on the Civil War, and the deaths of the Shoshoni Indians in a remote corner of the West was of only passing interest.  Bear River was the culmination of events from nearly two decades of Indian-white interaction. The Shoshoni homelands encompassed a huge expanse of territory and were traversed by the main paths of western travel, forcing Indian-white encounters. Initially friendly and accommodating to white travelers in the 1840s, by the late 1850s resentment soared among the Indians as they were killed and their food stocks were consumed by emigrants and their livestock. The process of ...

  Wovoka, The Indian Messiah

  Notes on Hillers' Photographs of the Paiute and Ute Indians Taken on the Powell Expedition of 1873

  Dances and Societies of the Plains Shoshone This book explores a series of related topics centered upon the military societies of the Plains Shoshone and the Dances and Societies of the Wind River Shoshone. The author positions the topic within the context of the military societies of the Plains area and draws parallels between these societies and those of the Wind River Shoshone examined in the text. Thematic depth is achieved by exploring cultural practices associated with these societies and the analysis of how they operated within native communities. The significance of this book lies in the knowledge it contributes to the understanding of the military societies of the Plains area by extending the study to include the Wind River Shoshone, giving readers a deeper insight into the diverse cultural practices observed across this geographic expanse.

  Storm Testament VII: Walkara

  World of Wakara The World of Wakara is an entertaining, well-balanced, scholarly narrative concerning early nineteenth-century life in the Great Basin. Considering the paucity of primary Indian sources, the work is adequately documented. Mr. Sonne has exercised discrimination in the use of legends and traditions, and his knowledge of the environment and pre-colonial conditions is sound, and his interpretations are plausible.

Wakara Meets the Mormons, 1848-52:  A Case Study in Native American Accommodation Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, 2002

  Prelude to Dispossession: The Fur Trade’s Significance for the Northern Utes and Southern Paiutes  

Dennis Chappabitty on UTE Termination Act and Injustice Against Mixed Blood Uinta Utes U.S. Congress passed the Ute Termination Act on August 27, 1954, 59 years ago. Utah Congressional members won’t listen to pleas to repeal this genocidal act. Why? When the Act was passed to strip 490 so-called “Mixed Blood” Uinta Utes of their tribal identity, non-Indians swooped in and used hook and crook to take their “shares” that have now extremely valuable and those non-Indians have become such powerful force, the “Ute Distribution Corporation”, that Congress is scared to repeal this racist law. The “shares” had the words, “void if transferred or sold” within a certain time. BIA knew these interlopers were cheating the unsophisticated exterminated Uintas of the only way they and their families could get ahead in the world after Congress stripped them of their identities and did nothing. In effect, the non-Indian outsiders took the shares and now comprise a large segment of the Ute Distribution C...

In 1964, the Ute Tribe terminated the 490 mixed-blood members of the tribe. Some say they voted to be terminated. Others disagree.  It is also told that the entire tribe was to be terminated.  This came about so that Indians could do their own business without government influence or control Mom was #418.  Her mother, and siblings: Judi, Walt, Henry, Rang (Ruben Jr), Pearl, and Jack were all terminated.  Her younger sisters, Joan and Marie were never enrolled with the Ute Tribe due to termination. This is a great misfortune because it not only affect those that were terminated but many generations. Today, there is still contention about what being Indian means. Those of us that are the next generation have been denied opportunities to participate in Native American programs in school, scholarships, etc.  Some have married back into the tribe but have not been able to enroll their children because the tribe will not recognize the mix blood quantum. At the time of...

  Waccara's Utes: Native American Equestrian Adaptations in the Eastern Great Basin, 1776-1876 UNLV RETROSPECTIVE THESES & DISSERTATIONS Abstract The equestrian adaptations of the Western Utes of the Eastern Great Basin were distinct from the stereotypical Plains Indian adaptation to the horse. The range and mobility of the Western Utes was enhanced by their acquisition of horses, but the Utes did not abandon their diversified subsistence system to specialize in buffalo hunting as did many Plains equestrian groups. Western Ute equestrian adaptations changed and evolved throughout the nineteenth century in response to environmental, cultural, economic, and political issues. Waccara's Western Utes represented the most conspicuous stage of Native American equestrianism in the Eastern Great Basin, and the success of their diversified and far-ranging annual migratory subsistence cycle resulted in their becoming one of the most prosperous and powerful equestrian bands in the nine...

  Tribal Funds of the Ute Indian Tribe, Utah  Hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on S. 1357 and H.R. 3795, Eighty-Second Congress, first session, on Apr. 25, July 3, 1951

  A Nineteenth Century Ute Burial from Northeast Utah / by Richard E. Fike, H. Blaine Phillips II.

  SYLLABUS ORAL ARGUMENT CITATION 406 US 128 (1972) ARGUED Oct 18, 1971 DECIDED Apr 24, 1972

  Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains

Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups This volume constitutes one of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographic reconnaissance of the Western Shoshoni and some of their Northern Paiute, Ute, and Southern Paiute neighbors of the Great Basin. At the same time, it tries to ascertain the types of Shoshonean sociopolitical groups and to discover their ecological and social determinants. First published in 1938 as the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 120, this study is a classic in the field of Great Basin ethnology. Steward is considered one of the foremost exponents of cultural evolution in the United States, and his work is a major contribution to the study of social organization and to North American ethnography.

  Fire on the Plateau: Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest Unitah Band “Mixed Blood” (pp.144 -165) "This book recounts my journey through the Colorado Plateau, a journey through place and time and self.... During my explorations of more than three decades, I found a land that sears into my heart and soul, a place that has taught me and changed me. I also discovered a land of conflict and endurance, a land that has given birth to one of the great chapters in American history." --from the Introduction The Colorado Plateau, stretching across four states and covering nearly 80 million acres, is one of the most unique and spectacular landscapes in the world. Remote, rugged, and dry -- at once forlorn and glorious -- it is a separate place, a place with its own distinctive landscape, history, and future.In  Fire on the Plateau , legal scholar and writer Charles Wilkinson relates the powerful story of how, over the past thirty years, he has been drawn ever more deeply i...

People of the Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825-1900 People of the Wind River  tells the story of the Eastern Shoshones through eight tumultuous decades—from 1825, when they reached mutual accommodations with the first permanent Anglo-American settlers in Wind River country, to 1900, when the death of Chief Washakie marked a final break with their traditional lives as nineteenth-century Plains Indians. Drawing on extensive research in primary documents and interviews with descendants of early Shoshone leaders, Henry E. Stamm IV traces critical developments in the tribe’s history, including its migration from the Great Basin to the High Plains of present-day Wyoming and the arrival of Arapahoes in the region. After 1885, with the buffalo gone and cattle herds growing, the Eastern Shoshones entered the twentieth century with only a shadow of their earlier economic power but still secure in their spiritual traditions.

  The Students of Sherman Indian School: Education and Native Identity Since 1892 PDF DOWNLOAD Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to "civilize" Indian children, which meant stripping them of their Native culture and giving them vocational training. Today, the school on Magnolia Avenue in Riverside serves 350 students from 68 tribes, and its curricula are designed to both preserve Native languages and traditions and prepare students for life and work in mainstream American society. This book offers the first full history of Sherman Indian School’s 100-plus years, a history that reflects federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century. Sherman Institute's historical trajectory features the abuse and exploitation familiar from other accounts of life at Indian boa...

  Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." Much more than a study of federal Indian policy, this book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally. The assault on identity came in many forms: the shearing off of braids, the assignment of new names, uniformed drill routines, humiliating punishments, relentless attacks on native religious beliefs, patriotic indoctrinati...

  Shadows of Sherman Institute: A Photographic History of the Indian School on Magnolia Avenue PDF DOWNLOAD In this powerful work, Shadows of Sherman, the evolution of this landmark institution, the Sherman Indian High School, is presented through Lorene Sisquoc’s unparalleled lens of understanding and knowledge of the long, storied history of Sherman. Since 1991, Lorene has been the Curator at the Sherman Indian Museum, while her association with Sherman goes back decades before her curatorship, as she was literally raised at Sherman by her mother Tonita Largo Glover and her grandma Ida Gooday Largo. Lorene’s collaborators on this remarkable project are the esteemed Dr. Cliff Trafzer, Costo Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Riverside and Dr. Jeffrey Smith of the University of Hawaii, Hilo. Together, the authors have culled remarkable archival images, stories and documents and with these, they have woven the history of Sherman that has never been...