Utah in Her Western Setting by Hunter, Milton R.

Utah in Her Western Setting

Utah in Her Western Setting by Milton R. Hunter (Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1944) is a comprehensive historical and geographic study of Utah and its place in the broader American West. The work situates the state within its physical, cultural, and economic landscapes, examining the interplay of geography, settlement, and human activity in shaping Utah’s development.

Hunter explores the history of exploration and settlement, including Indigenous populations, early European and American explorers, and the arrival of Mormon pioneers. The book addresses the formation of communities, agriculture, industry, transportation, and governance, providing a detailed overview of social, economic, and political evolution within the state.

In addition to historical narrative, the work emphasizes Utah’s regional significance, highlighting how its geography, natural resources, and strategic location influenced migration, trade, and cultural exchange across the American West. Rich with maps, photographs, and illustrations, it offers both a scholarly and accessible account of Utah’s development.

The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes, an Advocate's Chronicle

PDF DOWNLOAD AUDIO BOOK The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes, an Advocate's Chronicle. In this disturbing and provocative study, Salt Lake City attorney Parker M Nielson chronicles the termination of the mixed-blood Utes from the Northern Ute Indian Tribe. He outlines how the termination process, initiated by Utah Senator Arthur V Watkins, was visited on the Utes in a singular action by the U.S Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the only partial termination of any tribe in the nation. Termination for the mixedbloods meant loss of both tribal membership and any further claims upon the Bureau of Indian Affairs, similar to the impact of the termination policy upon other tribes in the 1950s. But for the mixed-blood terminated the losses went much further than being cut off from government assistance. Nielson, with first-hand information gained as legal representative for the terminated Utes, details how the separation of the terminees from tribal membersh...

Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah by R. Warren Metcalf

Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah [PDF DOWNLOAD] Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah [AUDIO BOOK] Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities were strongly encouraged to terminate their status as wards of the federal government and develop greater economic and political power for themselves. During this era, the rights of many Native communities came under siege, and the tribal status of some was terminated. Most of the terminated communities eventually regained tribal status and federal recognition in subsequent decades. But not all did. The mixed-blood Utes fell outside the formal categories of classification by the federal government, they did not meet the essentialist expectations of some officials of the Mormon Church, and th...

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