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Series
Kingdom in the West volume 16
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Examines the cooperation and conflict, violence and political maneuvering between the Mormons and Native Americans using the journals, letters, reports, and recollections of the people closest to the experience, and provide basic cultural, historical, and environmental perspectives to comprehend the Native world"--
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Ocťi Sakw̤in camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur...
Publisher
Temple Hill Videos
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Mormons and Utes met here when Manti was settled in 1849. Their subsequent encounters were not always as friendly. For example, the Sanpete settlers fled from the resistance of Indians under Walkara and Black Hawk. Scandinavians, especially Danes, settled Manti in large numbers. The crown jewel of their many achievements, was the temple, rising majestically at the north end of Manti. It came to symbolize the spiritual center of people's lives"--Insert....
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Series
Occasional publication volume no. 8
Publisher
Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house.Sally served as the longtime servant and cook in Brigham Young's household, living and working in the Lion House and Beehive House for over twenty years. Kerns has drawn on a broad range of ethnographic,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to American Indian treaties, the American polity too often forgets the realities of history. Prevailing perceptions are often not only inaccurate but also premised on outright falsehoods. Treaty-making was profoundly influenced by tribal conceptions of diplomacy. Colonial and early U.S. treaties especially were clothed in ritual, metaphor, and covenants that emphasized the sacred nature and purpose of diplomacy and represented a time...
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Series
University of Utah anthropological papers volume 136
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This project was the result of cultural resource management (CRM) investigations along the Sacramento River and floodplain for new levee construction and to degrade the existing levee. The archaeological record uncovered by these investigations provides new insights into the origin of intensive acorn use in California, the evolution of fishing technologies along the Sacramento River and its adjacent backwater habitats, the origin of bow-and-arrow...
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