The Utes: A Forgotten People Review

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(More customer reviews)The title of this book is apt, for the author has forgotten to include those Ute groups who lived in, what is now, the state of Utah. This book deals solely with those Ute groups that lived within Colorado. Also the early history of the Utes is largely ignored - 100 plus years of contact with the Spanish is skimmed over in a few pages. Likewise the traditional life and customs of the Utes gets scant treatment.
Most of the book deals with the Colorado Utes history subsequent to the American occupation of the west. The events of the "Meeker Massacre" occupy a large part.
The book was first published in the 1950s and this shows in the way the author, at times, discribes the Utes as "savages" and "bucks". Overall this books merits lie in its desciptions of the events around the "Meeker Massacre" and the removal of most of the Utes from Colorado. Anyone wanting to learn more about the Utes traditional life styles and beliefs would be better served by "The Utes - the Mountain People" by Jan Pettit which is a more up to date treatment of the early history and customs of the Utes (also profusely illustrated.

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