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Ute; Paiute; Shoshone; NavajoUintah; BannockOmer C. Stewart discusses the characteristics that distinguish the Utes from other tribes in the Uto-Aztecan language family, such as the Paitue and Shoshone Indians. Stewart relates language origin to potential migration patterns, but ultimately claims that the Utes stayed in a narrow geographic region. Stewart discusses early Ute hunting-gathering and basket-making culture, early dwellings, life after contact with the Spanish, relations with various tribes, treaties made with the federal government, the transition to farming allotted land, etc
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- Agriculture
- Allotment
- Allotment Of Land
- Courts
- Culture
- Education
- Federal Government
- Gathering
- Gender Roles
- Government
- Grazing
- History
- Horses
- Hunting
- Indian
- Indian Agency
- Indian Agents
- Indians Of North America
- Inter Tribal Relations
- Intermarriage
- Interviews
- Land Rights
- Land Use
- Language And Languages
- Maps
- Meeker Massacre
- Migration
- Missionaries
- Navajo Indians
- Paiute Indians
- Relations With Indians
- Reservations
- Rites And Ceremonies
- Shoshonean Indians
- Slaver
- Slavery
- Spanish Slave Trade
- Tabby
- Treaties
- Tribal Funds
- Tribal Government
- United States
- United States. Office Of Indian Affairs. Uintah And Ouray Agency
- Ute Indians
- White Relations
- White River Massacre, Colo., 1879
- Whites