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3) The Utes
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book is an overview of the past and present lives of the Utes, including their history, food and clothing, homes and family life, religion, and government.
4) Ute
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, social structure, customs, and present life of the Ute Indians.
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his exploration of the area for more than three decades, Wilkinson (law, U. of Colorado-Boulder) examines a number of historical events and continuing issues relating to the redrock countryside and Indian societies of the Colorado Plateau, which stretches across the states forming the Four Corners. Maps detail the various localities he describes.
6) Utah!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 12
Language
English
Description
Brawny work gangs and rugged engineers blast out tunnels and lay countless miles of rails to link a vast continent from coast to coast. Indians and unscruplous ranchers try to stop them while Toby Holt tries to keep order in the land.
8) Ute
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020.]
Language
English
Description
"The deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas, and ancient cliff dwellings of Bears Ears area hold pottery and projectile points, baskets and petroglyphs - and countless stories. For more than twelve thousand years, the wondrous landscape of southeastern Utah has defined the histories, cultures, and lives of everyone who calls it home. In Behind the Bears Ears, R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a personal journey of discovery through the narratives and...
Author
Series
University of Colorado studies. Series in anthropology volume no. 17
Publisher
University of Colorado Press
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The Colorado River and its deeply entrenched canyons create a lengthy barrier to travel in the interior West. From the mid-19th until the mid 20th century, one of the few places between California and Nevada where wheeled vehicles could cross it was at the mouth of the Pahreah River, between Glen Canyon and the river's steep drop toward Grand Canyon. Lee's Ferry was a primary link between Utah and Arizona. Mormons looking for new lands for colonization...
Author
Publisher
School of American Research Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the nineteenth century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures. Rancher Richard Wetherill (best known as the "discoverer" of Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace) and his brothers; entrepreneurs...
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a documentation of how Native people continue to persevere in this fight for the land and our culture. It is in our DNA; we cannot shake it. It is the road map we have and we trust it. And so we cobble together strategies to preserve and protect our communities and cultural heritage. These essays and interviews are a compendium of those strategies and the challenges Native people face at Bears Ears and across this country. I hope...
19) Moon dancer
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Miranda, a nature loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Introduction: Bears Ears and a Deep Map of Place
1. Hunter- Gatherers and Deep Time
2. From Basketmakers to Ancestral Puebloans, AD 50-1150
3. Into the Cliffs, 1150-1300
4. Navajos, Utes, and Canyon Exploration, 1300-1859
5. "The Fearing Time" and MappingAncient America, 1860-1875
6. "We Thank Thee, Oh God"
7. Cowboy Archaeology , a Lady Botanist, a Failed Indian Reservation, andthe Antiquities Act, 1891-1906
8. The US Forest Service , Natural Bridges,...