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Being and Becoming Ute
The Story of an American Indian PeopleBy Sondra G Jones
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, Utah, and New Mexico—the narrative describes their traditional culture, including the many facets that have continued to define them as a people. Jones emphasizes how the Utes adapted over four centuries and details events, conflicts, trade, and social interactions with non-Utes and non-Indians. Being and Becoming Ute examines the effects of boarding—and public—school education; colonial wars and commerce with Hispanic and American settlers; modern world wars and other international conflicts; battles over federally instigated termination, tribal identity, and membership; and the development of economic enterprises and political power. The book also explores the concerns of the modern Ute world, including social and medical issues, transformed religion, and the fight to maintain Ute identity in the twenty-first century.
Neither a portrait of a people frozen in a past time and place nor a tragedy in which vanishing Indians sank into oppressed oblivion, the history of the Ute people is dynamic and evolving. While it includes misfortune, injustice, and struggle, it reveals the adaptability and resilience of an American Indian people.Available in the Museum Store $29.95
The Story of an American Indian PeopleBy Sondra G Jones
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, Utah, and New Mexico—the narrative describes their traditional culture, including the many facets that have continued to define them as a people. Jones emphasizes how the Utes adapted over four centuries and details events, conflicts, trade, and social interactions with non-Utes and non-Indians. Being and Becoming Ute examines the effects of boarding—and public—school education; colonial wars and commerce with Hispanic and American settlers; modern world wars and other international conflicts; battles over federally instigated termination, tribal identity, and membership; and the development of economic enterprises and political power. The book also explores the concerns of the modern Ute world, including social and medical issues, transformed religion, and the fight to maintain Ute identity in the twenty-first century.
Neither a portrait of a people frozen in a past time and place nor a tragedy in which vanishing Indians sank into oppressed oblivion, the history of the Ute people is dynamic and evolving. While it includes misfortune, injustice, and struggle, it reveals the adaptability and resilience of an American Indian people.Available in the Museum Store $29.95
Uintah County Regional History Center's "The Outlaw Trail Journal Summer 2020 Available now $10
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One Voice Rising is a memoir by Ute healer, elder, and historian Clifford Duncan, as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Duncan (1933–2014) was an inspiring leader and a powerful medicine man, and he was, as Sillitoe wrote, “simultaneously one of the most bi-cultural and traditional American Indians in the West.” Duncan here covers both personal and tribal history during a crucial period in the tribe’s development. His discussions with Sillitoe offer a unique look at individual and societal issues, including the Native American Church, powwows and tribal celebrations, and interactions with the larger world. George Janecek’s photographs of Clifford Duncan and his world expand the impact of Duncan’s words.
$29.95
The life of Josie Bassett was nothing short of a female pioneer adventure. "'I drove my first husband, Jim McKnight, out of the house at the point of a gun and told him never to come back. 'Let's just say that some men are harder to get rid of than others."
So said Josephine Bassett McKnight Ranney Williams Wells Morris to a young reporter in 1960. She was a four-time divorcee whose fifth husband died of natural causes....though persistent rumors say otherwise. She raised two sons and lived an adventurous but frugal life at her homestead on Cub Creek, in western Utah.
$24.95
So said Josephine Bassett McKnight Ranney Williams Wells Morris to a young reporter in 1960. She was a four-time divorcee whose fifth husband died of natural causes....though persistent rumors say otherwise. She raised two sons and lived an adventurous but frugal life at her homestead on Cub Creek, in western Utah.
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Memories are the invisible threads connecting us with our past. From the moment a child is born to the reflections of deep history carved on canyon walls, memories describe the aspects of our lives that otherwise defy explanation, an intangible whisper of awareness written on the lips of time. The history of the american Southwest is vividly painted and pecked with memories, with stories, and with narratives of people and place, odysseys carved into tortuous landscapes of heartbreaking beauty and heat-pressed geometry. This history, in the form or rock art, allows us to see, feel, and experience these threads of memory, binding us ever closer to the past an dour place in this landscape.
This book is a plea for conservation told through many voices and from many different perspectives. It highlights the numerous threats facing these sacred places and provides valuable insight into how we can care for this land responsibly.
$28.95
This book is a plea for conservation told through many voices and from many different perspectives. It highlights the numerous threats facing these sacred places and provides valuable insight into how we can care for this land responsibly.
$28.95
Representing lawmakers and lawbreakers, artist and adventurers or scholars and activists, the women of Utah defied stereotypes. At the crossroads of the West, they found new challenges and opportunities to forge their own paths. Emma Dean explored the Rocky Mountains with her famous spouse, John Wesley Powell. Martha Hughes Cannon defeated her husband to become the first female state senator. Maud Fitch drove an ambulance under German artillery fire to rescue downed pilots in WWI. Author Emily Booksby Wheeler celebrates the remarkable Utah women who, whether racing into danger or nurturing those who fell behind, changed their world and ours.
$23.99
$23.99