Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains

Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains — 1852

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 specialists associated with the expedition.

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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