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The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has shared recent versions of their creation story, emphasizing the continuous existence of the Utes within the boundaries of their ancestral home. According to Alden Naranjo, a Southern Ute elder, it is maintained in the creation narrative of the Ute that they have always occupied this mountainous region, in ...
The museum tells the story of the Southern Ute people, [5] "Numi Nuuchiyu, We Are the Ute People", throughout prehistoric and current times. [6] Features include a life-sized buffalo hide tipi and the Circle of Life sculpture and glass ceiling. Articles on exhibit include a bear totem pole, clothing, and replicas of cave drawings.
Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of an American Indian People. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-657-7. McPherson, Robert S. (2011). As If the Land Owned Us: An Ethnohistory of the White Mesa Utes. ISBN 978-1-60781-145-9. Silbernagel, Robert. (2011). Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from ...
Stories unique to the Great Plains feature buffalo, which provided the Plains peoples with food, clothing, housing and utensils. In some myths they are benign, in others fearsome and malevolent. [12] The Sun is an important deity; [13] [14] other supernatural characters include Morning Star [13] [8] [14] and the Thunderbirds. [15] [12] [16]
In Ute folklore, particularly among those around Utah Lake and the Provo River in Utah, Water Babies, known as Pawapicts, were believed to inhabit these waters. The Utes told stories of these spirits, often describing them as small creatures with long black hair who cried like infants and could lure or force others into the water.
Nicaagat (leaves becoming green, [1] c. 1840–1882), also known as Chief, Captain and Ute Jack [2] and Green Leaf. [ 3 ] [ a ] A Ute warrior and subchief, [ 4 ] he led a Ute war party against the United States Army when it crossed Milk Creek onto the Ute reservation, which triggered the Battle of Milk Creek . [ 2 ]
The eastern part of the reservation officially became the Southern Ute Indian Reservation and was divided up amongst Muache and Capote tribal members in 80- and 160-acre parcels. [ 1 ] Sapiah met five [ 15 ] or seven United States presidents in Washington, D.C. , including Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893) and, with his son Antonio, Theodore ...
The generic name references a man-eating monster in Ute mythology. The specific name meekerorum honors the geologist John Caldwell Meeker and his family for their support of paleontological research. [1] [2] Siats is known from the holotype specimen, FMNH PR 2716, a partial postcranial skeleton housed at the Field Museum of Natural History ...