Beneath These Red Cliffs: An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes

by Ronald L Holt

Overview

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 possibility. 

With a foreword by Lora Tom, chair of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874215427
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	07/31/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	6 MB

Table of Contents

SOccupation and DepOedecy 3 2 From Neglect to Lethargy: The Trust Betrayed .2 3 The Agony of Termination 6 4 T7he Forgotten Tribe 98 "5 Restoration and Reservation 25 SBeyotnd the BIA: The Paute FIture l48 Appendix: Methods and Sources 55