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Ong, Chai-ok and Shin-au-av go to a distant mountain to gather pine-nuts

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Title Ong, Chai-ok and Shin-au-av go to a distant mountain to gather pine-nuts
Subject Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Origins; Indians of North America--Languages; Paiute Indians; Paiute Indians--history; Ethnohistory; Language and languages; Ong; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords ute and paiute legends 1873; shin-au-av; traditions; chai-ok; shinau-aw; Native Americans
Tribe Paiute; Ute
Description Ong, Chai-ok, and Shin-au-av go travel to a distant mountain with the goal of gathered pine nuts to bring home. However, the people of the mountains deceived Shin-au-av and gave him seeds for a Cedar trees instead. This story explains why Cedar trees grow in the lower hills and Pine on the higher mountains
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Type Image/StillImage
Format application/pdf
File Name (30) Ong, Chai-ok and Shinau-aw go to a distant mountain to gather pine-nuts.pdf
Language eng
Rights Digital Image © 2010 America West Center. All Rights Reserved
ARK ark:/87278/s6pp225f
Setname uaida_main
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp225f