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Beneath these red cliffs : an ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes / Ronald L. Holt ; forewords by Floyd O'Neil and Lora Tom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Ronald L., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paiute Indians--History--Sources.
- Paiute Indians.
- Paiute Indians--Government relations.
- Paiute Indians--Social conditions.
- Latter Day Saints--History--Sources.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Latter Day Saints--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Edition:
- New and updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2006.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Ronald Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. That recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, in an act that revived the Paiutes' identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Foreword; Foreword to the New Edit; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Update, 2005; 1. Occupation and Dependency; 2. From Neglect to Lethargy: The Trust Betrayed; 3. The Agony of Termination; 4. The Forgotten Tribe; 5. Restoration and Reservation; 6. Beyond the BIA: The Paiute Future; Appendix: Methods and Sources; Notes; References Cited
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-186) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613078025
- 9781283078023
- 1283078023
- 9780874215427
- 0874215420
- OCLC:
- 704350342
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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