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    • A Washakie Anecdote

    • A Washakie Anecdote

    • A brief story of a young white woman's first encounter with, Washakie.

    • indian/white relations; ethnohistory; culture; dress; family; horses; identity; shoshone indians; shoshone indians -- history; traditions;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Beck to Commissioner

    • Agent Beck to Commissioner

    • Letter regards a report of talks between agent Beck and a band of White Rivers Indians. The Indians are resisting the white man.

    • Indians of North America; indian/white relations; ethnohistory; land use; land rights; culture; language; federal government;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Beck to Commissioner dated Aug. 2, 1897

    • Agent Beck to Commissioner dated Aug. 2, 1897

    • Letter regards a report of Indians in communication with the federal government. The Indians feel they should be able to hunt, and travel when and where they want, just as the white man.

    • Indians of North America; indian/white relations; ethnohistory; land use; land rights; culture; language; federal government;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Brennan to Agent Hall dated July 6, 1906

    • Agent Brennan to Agent Hall dated July 6, 1906

    • A group of Indians from Wyoming have arrived at the receiver's agency and they lack a 'pass'. Police are sent to send them home.

    • Indians of North America; indian/white relations; ethnohistory; land use; land rights; culture; language; federal government;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Byrnes to Commissioner dated June 24, 1889

    • Agent Byrnes to Commissioner dated June 24, 1889

    • A correspondence between an Indian agent and a Commissioner regarding resources, Indian/white relations/conflicts, mineral-rich land, infrastructure, finances, etc.

    • Indians of North America; indian/white relations; ethnohistory; land use; land rights; culture; language; federal government; correspondence;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Byrnes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs

    • Agent Byrnes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs

    • Byrnes writes to the commissioner in regards to an Uncompahgre land dispute between Whites, Mexicans, and Indians. He requests a company of cavalry to secure the area while a new land survey is done, as to avoid bloodshed.

    • Indians of North America; indian/white relations; ethnohistory; land use; land rights; culture; language; federal government; Homesteading;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Agent Hall to Commissioner dated Sept. 6, 1907

    • Agent Hall to Commissioner dated Sept. 6, 1907

    • Hall informs the commissioner that there is no need to worry about Indians leaving there reservations to join an 'absent' group of Utes. Apparently, they've received word that the living conditions at that point are highly unfavorable, and that...

    • Indians of North America; ethnohistory; land use; migration
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Corn Brought to the Earth

    • Corn Brought to the Earth

    • In the very early days, when everyone was small, poor, and hungry, a local mother sent her son across the sky, to the distant country of the Shin-au-av, in search of subsidence. After passing Shin-au-av's enemy test (in which he drinks cactus...

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory; shin-au-av; farming; food
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Dissertation on Ute Indians

    • Dissertation on Ute Indians

    • History of the Ute people prior to and after encountering European-Americans.

    • Allotment; Black Hawk War; Brigham Young; Environment; Ethnohistory; Farming; Federal Government; Homesteading; Indian Agency/ Reservations; Indian/White Relations; Indians of North America; Land Rights; Land Use; Livestock; Meeker massacre;...
    • UAIDA - Main
    • General Discussion From Story of the Flood

    • General Discussion From Story of the Flood

    • The general discussion of the story of the flood provides a meta-analytic perspective of the story purpose, general structure, and metaphors.

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • How Ai-ai got his Wife

    • How Ai-ai got his Wife

    • Ai-ai (the turtle) discovers the love of his life has another suitor. Ai-ai wins his wife from her father after defeating his competitor in combat.

    • ethnohistory; ai-ai; kwi-ats; family; indians of north america; paiute indians -- history; paiute indians; traditions; ute and paiute legends 1873
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Hu-pats visits the Jay nation on the Kaibab

    • Hu-pats visits the Jay nation on the Kaibab

    • Ku-puts and Ku-kwats work together to hunt with exceptional success and impress the nation of Jay. Ku-puts (the fox); kui-ala (the bear); Ku-kwats (the spider).

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory; hu-pats; kaibab (river)
    • UAIDA - Main
    • I Remember Hiawatha

    • I Remember Hiawatha

    • Utah Historical Quarterly Article regarding two young white teachers who taught in a little school in Hiawatha, Utah, close to Price in the Uintah Basin. Their relations with students and parents of different ethnicities, their teaching, and the...

    • Education; Work; Mining; Children; Culture; Employment; Ethnohistory; Mormons; Religion
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Letter from Agent J.A. Byrnes dated August 2, 1888;

    • Letter from Agent J.A. Byrnes dated August 2, 1888;

    • Agent J.A. Byrnes provides a list of names of Ute Indians whom he believes, based on their merit, are entitled to shares from land sales;

    • Ethnohistory; Land Use; Culture; Language; Indians of North America; Federal Government; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Uintah and Ouray Agency; Indian agents; Whites--Relations with Indians;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • On Spirits (Numas)

    • On Spirits (Numas)

    • This document catalogs different Native American perspecitves on Spirts: Mo-go-au (spirit who dwells in a man); Teu-gau (spirit of an old woman); U-nu-pits (pygmy); etc.

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Ong, Chai-ok and Shin-au-av go to a distant mountain to gather pine-nuts

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

    • 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...

    • Paiute Indians; ute and paiute legends 1873; shin-au-av; paiute indians -- history; ethnohistory; traditions; language; ong; chai-ok; shinau-aw
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Origin of the Echo (Gosiute)

    • Origin of the Echo (Gosiute)

    • A witch stretches the arms and legs of To-o-wi's daughter (the turtle dove) until he is the size of a man, and then she marries him. After a long and clever rescue, the witch teams up with the rattlesnake and hides in its skin, conferring the...

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Origin of the Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, etc

    • Origin of the Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, etc

    • One day when the earth was completely flat, Shin-au-av decides to shoot his arrow across the land. As the arrow struck the surface of the planet, it formed the crevices and canyons between the mountains. Before this time, all were brothers and...

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory; Inter-tribal Relations; Land; shin-au-av
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Southern Utes A Tribal History, The

    • Southern Utes A Tribal History, The
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    • Ute Indians -- History; Language; Spanish; Treaties; Military/War; Trade; Overland Trail; Indian/White Relations; Federal Government; Ute War; Indian Agency/ Reservations; Meeker Massacre; Allotment; Tribal Economy; Tribal Funds; Hunting; Farming;...
    • UAIDA - Main
    • History of the Northern Ute People, A

    • History of the Northern Ute People, A
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    • Ute Indians -- History; Maps; Traditions; Spanish; Spanish Slave Trade; Travel; Treaties; Religion; Food; Land; Hunting; Federal Government; Mormons; Health; Brigham Young; Military/War; Missionaries; Farming; Indian Agency/ Reservations;...
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Nuwuvi : a southern Paiute history

    • Nuwuvi : a southern Paiute history
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    • Paiute Indians -- History; Traditions; Language; Land; Hunting; Tribal Government; Farming; Art; Work; Spanish; Trade; Food; Mormons; Overland Trail; Spanish Slave Trade; Travel; Indian/White Relations; Land Use; Brigham Young; Federal Government;...
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Petroglyphs

    • Petroglyphs

    • Petroglyphs.

    • Father Liebler; Liebler, Harold Baxter 1889-1982; Navajo; Navajo Indian--Education; Episcopal Church; Missionaries; Archeology; Anthropology; Ethnohistory; Folklore; myths; Petroglyphs; Art;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Shin-au-av and Nu-wa-pa-kuts Survive a Snowstorm

    • Shin-au-av and Nu-wa-pa-kuts Survive a Snowstorm

    • When Shin-au-av and Nu-wa-pa-kuts go on a hike in the mountains, a snowstorm overcomes them. Nu-wa-pa-kuts becomes known for wisdom after saving Shin-au-av from an icy death.

    • ethnohistory; indians of north america; paiute indians -- history; traditions; language; ute and paiute legends 1873
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Shin-au-av and The Flood

    • Shin-au-av and The Flood

    • One day when the sea was angry, Shin-au-av shot it with an arrow and it burst into many small pieces. It then flooded the land until Shin-au-av and his companions almost starved to death.

    • ethnohistory; shin-au-av; food; indians of north america; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; traditions; ute and paiute legends 1873
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Shin-au-av and To-ko-puts Play Games of Deception

    • Shin-au-av and To-ko-puts Play Games of Deception

    • Shin-au-av and To-ko-puts (the turtle) play tricks on each other, pretending to be dead when they are not. Eventually, the tricks backfire and To-ko-puts ends up with a rock in the face, which explains his long nose.

    • ute and paiute legends 1873; traditions; Paiute Indians; shin-au-av; to-ko-puts; paiute indians -- history; ethnohistory; language
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Shu'-ni-am

    • Shu'-ni-am

    • This is a short story about a daughter of Shin-au-av who is cast into the woods and raised by Yo-go-lo-wei (Cayote).

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory; shin-au-av
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Story of Eagle

    • Story of Eagle

    • This document catalogs different Indian names and their English translation from the Story of Eagle.

    • traditions; paiute indians; language; ethnohistory
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Story of Hu-pats and Kom

    • Story of Hu-pats and Kom

    • This letter gives definitions of Ute terminology, a description of Ute mountain territories near the Grand Canyon, and conveys an encounter with a group of Indians who chose to stay with him. The letter also recounts a story told by the Indians...

    • ute and paiute legends 1873; traditions; Paiute Indians; hu-pats; kom; paiute indians -- history; ethnohistory; language
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The abandoned Boy

    • The abandoned Boy

    • After two young brothers are left behind by the family and friends, they struggle on a long journey only to find them dead and their sisters taken away. The story ends in triumph, however, after they stalk down their enemies, kill them, rescue...

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The First Child Born

    • The First Child Born

    • A young Shin-au-av learns about the pitfalls of eternal life.

    • Ethnohistory; family; Indians of North America; Paiute Indians -- History; Paiute Indians; Ute and Paiute Legends 1873;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The origin of the Canyons of the Colorado

    • The origin of the Canyons of the Colorado

    • This is the story of how the Colorado river and canyons were formed. After the leader of the Utes loses his beloved wife, Ta-vwoats(?) rolls a magic ball across the land so he can travel to go see her in the spirit world.

    • Ute and Paiute Legends 1873; traditions; paiute indians; paiute indians -- history; language; ethnohistory;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The Quarrels of Pu-ni and Ta-vwats (The Skunk and the Chipmink)

    • The Quarrels of Pu-ni and Ta-vwats (The Skunk and the Chipmink)

    • Pu-ni (the skunk) and Ta-vwats (the chipmonk) get in a fight over deer meet. The story culminates in the origin of such historical phrases as "The angry man kills his best friends" and "An angry man stinks".

    • hunting; paiute indians; ethnohistory; family; food; indians of North america; paiute indians -- history; traditions; ute and paiute legends 1873; pu-ni;
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The Son of the Younger Shin-au-av is Punished for Disobedience

    • The Son of the Younger Shin-au-av is Punished for Disobedience

    • A young Shin-au-av disobeys his elders and crosses a forbidden barrier to observe people fighting on another mountain. Shin-au-av then learns an important lesson of disobedience after a stray stone strikes his arm and breaks it.

    • ute and paiute legends 1873; traditions; Paiute Indians; shin-au-av; to-ko-puts; paiute indians -- history; ethnohistory; language
    • UAIDA - Main
    • The story of the Moon

    • The story of the Moon

    • After the Shin-au-av brothers awoke from the slumber they found they had lost all their hair (or fur). They soon discover that insects had taken their hair and put it on a great object which rose up into the heavens. This story explains the Ute...

    • ute and paiute legends 1873; traditions; Paiute Indians; paiute indians -- history; ethnohistory; language; Shin-au-av
    • UAIDA - Main
    • Writing on a rock. May 1970

    • Writing on a rock. May 1970

    • Writing on a rock. May 1970.

    • Father Liebler; Liebler, Harold Baxter 1889-1982; Navajo; Navajo Indian--Education; Episcopal Church; Missionaries; Anthropology; Archeology; Ethnohistory; Land;
    • UAIDA - Main

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