Being and becoming Ute : the story of an American Indian people /

Sondra Jones traces the metamorphosis of the Ute people from a society of small, interrelated bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to sovereign, dependent nations, modern tribes who run extensive business enterprises and government services. Weaving together the history of all Ute groups in Colorado, Ut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Sondra, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Out of the desert : the NĂșu-ci [or Nooche]
  • First encounters : commerce and colonialism, to 1846
  • Americans among the Utes : trade, trapping, and trails
  • Colonization : Utah Territory
  • Conciliation and defeat : Western Utes, 1851-1855
  • Colonization : Kansas/Colorado Territory
  • Containment : Colorado, 1855-1873
  • Conflict and removal : Utah, 1855-1879
  • Conflict and removal : Colorado, 1873-1881
  • The land divided: Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute reservations, 1881-1906
  • The land divided : Uintah and Ouray reservations
  • 1881-1906
  • Religion and the perseverance of identity : 1890-present
  • Travail : 1895-1940
  • The struggle for rebirth and identity: 1940-1970
  • The quest for self-determination and sovereignty
  • Uintah-Ouray Utes: 1960 to a new century
  • Southern and Ute Mountain Utes : 1960 to a new century
  • Appendix: historical nomenclature for Ute bands
  • Bibliography.