University of Utah - Utonian Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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KAK1- PHOTOGRAPH Ol llll SI DAM 1:. MOST SACRID OP LIP. (PRIMOMts bows and arrows, but among the Piutes rabbits, gophers, snakes, insects and fish were eaten. Baskets of conical form were made and used for gathering and winnowing grass seeds. Cot- ton was raised in southern Utah and made into clothing. Spades and digging sticks were the common agricultural implements, and shoulder- blades of the deer were used for spades. They lived in wickiups made of brush. The northern tribes had tepees. Like all Indians they sang songs in praise of the forces of nature; they danced to their simple rhythmic chants, and preserved the traditions of their fathers. One of the favorite songs of the Mountain Indians was about the high peaks that propect into the home of the Great Spirit: The mountains are high The mountains are high We will climb them, we will climb them. We will plant our feet in the land. There lives our God. . A CRolP OP Ills GAMBLING, A PVNORITE PASTIME OP BOTH MALES WD FEMALES Page 12

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Utes, and She-be-reachers lived in the eastern and southern part of the Territory, and num- bered over 5000. They did not cultivate the soil but lived by hunting and fishing. They were warlike and constantly migrated from place to place and were a source of great an- noyance to the early inhabitants of the country east of the Wasatch Mountains. After 1861 the Uintah Utes were given approximately 110.000 a year and were encouraged to settle on a large tract of land in the Uintah Valley. Most of them, however, preferred the chase to settling on the lands and cultivating them. The Timpanagos lived in Utah valley and numbered 500 people. The word Utah was applied to most of the Indians inhabitating the Great Basin, and from this tribe Utah derived its name. In the various dialects, Utah is spelled Yutah, Eutaw, Ute, and Spanish Ayote, but the exact meaning of the word is as yet unknown. The Utah Indians committed many depre- dations in the early days. This was due to the fact that they felt keenly, as did all the western tribes, the encroachment of the whites upon their lands. The pioneers of Utah treated them with fairness and justice, and many noble chiefs made lasting peace with the whites. In the early days a few Indians settled on lands and began raising wheat and potatoes. In 1855, Pe-teet-weet, chief of a band of Indians near Springville, made a selection of a large tract of land for a pasture, and numerous treaties were made with the settlers. In September, 1855, a large band of Shoshones met Governor Brigham Young in Salt Lake City and made a treaty of peace in which it was stipulated that they, the Indians, should have lands and should be given rations. The Indians were under a chief named Ti-ba-bo-en-dwart-sa (white man ' s friend ' ) and numbered in all about three hun- dred. In the early spring of that year some of the Utahs and Poh-bantes were taught how to farm. During the year 1855 the people were unable to provide food for the Indians who came to the various settlements begging for (lour. Drought and the grasshoppers had de- stroyed nearly all the crops and the people had a hard time to keep from starving. The Utah Indians lived upon fish, roots, pinion nuts, grass seeds, berries, and small game. In early days the eastern Utes hunted the buffalo with «mHHBHM9HBHHHHBaMBHHMBHKiH PHOTOCRAPH AT DAWN OF A ITE TEPEE. PITCHED IN Till: LOWLANDS OE THE UINTAH BASIN JL i s- t%mLil.. Page 1 1

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I TIS GATHERED AT FOR 1UCHESNE FOR THE LTNTAH BASIN INDUSTRIAL CONVENTION The Comanches prayed to the Sun and at daylight when the first rays of light appeared in the east, they sang: The sun ' s beams are running out. The sun ' s beams are running out. The sun ' s yellow rays are running out. The sun ' s yellow rays are running out. When the spring time came, the cottonwood trees throughout the arid region compose the must conspicuous parts of landscape. They fringed the streams and rivers of the Great Basin and grew profusely in the canyons of the Wasatch. To them the L ' tes and Paiutes sang: The cottonwoods are growing tall, The cottonwoods are growing tall, The cottonwoods are growing tall, They are growing tall and verdant. They are growing tall and verdant, They are growing tall and verdant. OUTSIDE VIEW OF THE SUN DANCE GROUNDS AT WHITEROCKS. ITMI ... it.. Page I