Affiliated Ute Citizens of the State of Utah

  Provo: Pioneer Mormon City Provo: Pioneer Mormon City , compiled by the Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Utah, is a comprehensive historical account of Provo from its origins as a Mormon pioneer settlement through its transformation into a regional community. A central and particularly significant theme of the book is the complex, often fraught interaction between Mormon settlers and the Timpanogos people , whose homeland encompassed Utah Valley long before Euro-American settlement. This emphasis is most clearly developed in Chapter IV, “Fort Utah Mission,” Chapter V, “Second Fort Utah – ‘A Very Eligible Place,’” and Chapter VI, “Indian Slaves and the Walker War.” These chapters examine early missionary efforts, the establishment and relocation of Fort Utah, negotiations and conflicts over land and resources, and the escalating violence that culminated in warfare and forced displacement. The book does not shy away from detailin...

  Founding Fort Utah Provo's Native Inhabitants, Early Explorers, and First Year of Settlement Founding Fort Utah: Provo’s Native Inhabitants, Early Explorers, and First Year of Settlement by D. Robert Carter (2003) examines the establishment of Fort Utah in 1849 with particular attention to the Timpanogos Indians , the Native people of Utah Valley, whose homeland the settlers entered. Drawing heavily on primary sources such as journals, letters, and contemporary accounts, the book reconstructs the valley’s history prior to settlement and the fraught first year of coexistence, conflict, and survival between Mormon pioneers and the Timpanogos, a band of the Ute people. Carter places the Timpanogos at the center of the narrative, describing their social structure, seasonal movements, subsistence practices, and long-standing ties to Utah Lake and the surrounding valley. The book explores how earlier encounters with Spanish and American explorers—such as Escalante and Jedediah Smith—...

  The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations is a nonfiction anthology edited by Kathleen Ratteree and Norbert S. Hill, Jr. , published by Fulcrum Publishing in 2017 . The book examines the history and consequences of blood quantum , a racial classification system imposed through U.S. federal policy and adopted by many tribes to determine Native identity and citizenship. Through a mix of scholarly essays, personal narratives, poetry, satire, and legal analysis, contributors from diverse Indigenous nations explore how blood quantum emerged from colonial efforts to control land, resources, and Native populations, and how it continues to shape belonging, exclusion, and sovereignty today.  The collection argues that blood quantum functions as a “vanishing” mechanism that gradually reduces the number of people legally recognized as Native, threatening the future of Native nations...

  Indian Claims Commission Decisions; Volume 08, Docket nos. 044, 045 Uintah Ute Indians of Utah, Plaintiffs, v. the United States of America, Defendant. Defendant Attorney: Keith Browne Plaintiff Attorneys: Robert W. Baker, Glen A. Wilkinson Associate Counsel of Record for Plaintiffs: F. M. Goodwin Attorney of Record for Plaintiffs: Ernest L. Wilkinson Plaintiff Witnesses: Preston Allen (Affiliated Ute Citizen of the State of Utah), Joseph Workman (Affiliated Ute Citizen of the State of Utah), Jason Cuch, Harvey Natchess, Charles Atwine John Boyden, attorney of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as general counsel for the Uintah Ute Indians of Utah and their affiliated groups.

  Deseret News | 1855-09-12 | Page 5 | The Eastern Mail

  Deseret Weekly | 1897-04-03 | Page 14 | An Indian Dinner

Deseret News | 1952-05-14 | Page 44 Deseret News | 1854-04-13 | Page 4 | Report of the Seventies of Nephi Deseret News | 1854-05-11 | Page 1 | Discourse Deseret News | 1856-03-05 | Page 5 | Disturbance with Indians A Brief History of Springville, Utah: From Its First Settlement September 18, 1850, to the 18th Day of September, 1900: Fifty Years Johnson, Don Carlos Payson Chronicle | 2003-09-10 | Page 4 Provo Daily Herald | 2005-01-02 | Page 28 Provo Daily Herald | 2005-01-09 | Page 24, 25

  Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains by Stansbury, Howard This is the official account of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers’ mid-19th-century expedition into the Great Salt Lake Valley in what is now Utah. Led by Captain Howard Stansbury , the work documents the 1849–1850 survey of the region’s geography, natural history, waters, and topography, and includes the results of a detailed examination of the valley’s lakes, rivers, and surrounding terrain. The narrative also reports on the expedition’s investigation of a potential new route through the Rocky Mountains , intended to improve westward travel and emigration routes. Published by order of the U.S. Senate in 1852 , the volume combines scientific observation, cartography, and travel description and is supplemented with maps, illustrations, and appendices on zoology, botany, and geology contributed by speciali...

  The Mormons, or, Latter-Day Saints: In the Valley of the Great Salt Lake:  A History of Their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects; Derived From Personal Observation, During a Residence Among Them by Gunnison, J. W.

Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 3, 1991  

Old Elk and his Wife   This may be a depiction of Big Elk, the military leader of the Timponogots Utes, although possibly fabricated as he died of disease and exposure before the main portion of Howard Stansbury’s exploring party reached Utah Valley.   Source : Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1852.   Creator : From Howard Stansbury’s Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852.   Date : 1852. Fort Utah   Fort Utah as it appeared in 1850 at the time of the Provo River Battle, based on a sketch made by one of the Stansbury Expedition’s artists. The cannon on the roof of the bowery fired grape and chain shot at the Ute encampment during the battle.   Source : From Howard Stansbury’s Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852.   Creator : From Howard Stansbury’s Exploration and Survey of the Valley ...

  A Historical Study of the Exploration of Utah Valley and the Story of Fort Utah The exploration of Utah Valley and the history of Fort Utah is the story of the conquest and colonization of the American frontier. Discovered in the days of Western expansion, the Valley was identified with the principal factors in the development of the Intermountain West. It heard the chant of the gray robed Franciscan priests, became a favorite haunt of the trail blazing fur trapper and trader, was the site of the ancient rendezvous of the Indian, saw the gold seekers trudge wearily on to California, and with the founding of Fort Utah served as the springboard of Southern Utah Mormon colonization. Today this Fort is the foundation of the modern and beautiful city of Provo, Utah. During its heyday, Fort Utah was identified with the redman as well as the white; it was the guardian and outpost to the south of Salt Lake of Brigham Young's colonization plan; it was the scene of extensive bartering with...

  Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (1855), edited by James Linforth and illustrated by Frederick Hawkins Piercy, is a richly illustrated travel and emigration account documenting the journey of Latter-day Saint converts from England to the American West. Published in Liverpool by Franklin D. Richards, the volume combines narrative description with steel engravings and wood cuts based on Piercy’s sketches made during his 1853 journey with an emigrant company. Intended both as a practical guide and a promotional work, it traces the route from Liverpool across the Atlantic, up the Mississippi River, over the plains, and into the Great Salt Lake Valley. In addition to landscapes, settlements, and prominent Latter-day Saint figures, the work includes visual and textual references to American Indian peoples encountered along the route, reflecting mid-nineteenth-century frontier perspectives. Notably, Piercy depicts Chief Walkar...

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  Strangers In Ute Lands

  Ute Indians David Rich Lewis Utah History Encyclopedia , 1994 A Southern Ute, c. 1880 Ute Indians (who call themselves Nuciu, “The People”) are Southern Numic speakers of the Numic (Shoshonean) language family. At the time of Euro-American contact, twelve informally affiliated Ute bands inhabited most of Utah and western Colorado. They included the Cumumba (probably a Shoshone band), the Tumpanuwac, Uinta-at, San Pitch, Pahvant, and Sheberetch in Utah, and the Yamparka, Parianuc, Taviwac, Wiminuc, Kapota, and Muwac in Colorado. The bands recognized, traded, and intermarried with each other, but maintained no larger tribal organization. Band members gathered annually at their spring Bear Dance or to take advantage of some resource abundance, but otherwise remained in local residence groups of from 20 to 100 people. Utes practiced a flexible subsistence system elegantly adapted to their environments. Extended family groups moved through known hunting and gathering territories on a ...