Ordeal of Change: The Southern Utes and Their Neighbors

by Frances Leon Quintana

Overview

Published for the first time, these early writings of renowned anthropologist Frances Leon Quintana boldly detail the exploitation and the gradual present day recovery of the Southern Utes Indians following the American conquest of their ancestral lands in 1877 and their subsequent treatment at the hands of the U.S. federal government. Ordeal of Change includes the historical trajectory of the tribe's development and subsequent adaptations from 1877-1926, a statistical survey demonstrating the impact of Indian relocation and the redistribution of their tribal lands on the demographic and economic status of the tribe, and an thoughtful analysis of this data. The fourth and final section, an afterword by Professor Richard O. Clemmer, brings these developments up to date from 1926 to the present. This book—a chronicle of and tribute to the determination of a nation resolved to survive the hardships that have shaped them—is a must for scholars of Native American history and development and for those interested in the restoration of justice to native peoples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759107106
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	10/17/2004
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Frances Leon Quintana received her Ph. D. in 1966 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1968-78, she served as Curator of Ethnology at the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico, where she specialized in the ethnology and ethnohistory of Hispanic communities. Richard O. Clemmer is Professor of Anthropology at University of Denver. He did social and economic research among the Southern Utes as a Tribal employee from 1981 to 1983.

Table of Contents

1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements 3 Chapter 1: The Crucible 4 Chapter 2: The Context of Change 5 Chapter 3: Consequences of Allotment 6 Chapter 4: Crisis: "Self Support" 7 Chapter 5: Statistics of Change 8 Chapter 6: Elements of Contact Relations 9 Chapter 7: Categories of Change 10 Conclusions 11 Afterword 12 Notes 13 Bibliography 14 Index 15 About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

This is a story all too familiar in the history of western reservations, but here told with a depth of documentation and authoritativeness that leaves little doubt of the seriousness of the threat to the survival of the Southern Ute as a people during these crucial years. Richard Clemmer’s Afterword contributes to the profile, taking the tribe from the dark days of the first 50 years to the brighter times of the Indian New Deal, self determination, and better economic and social situations to present (1926-2000). Combined the two accounts provide an informative picture of the outside influences on the Southern Ute people over the 125-year period that is at once distressing to read, with its chronicle of misunderstanding, greed and downright deception, especially in the early years, to the more refreshing situation for the Tribe in recent years. The book also serves as model for other histories and analyses of additional western reservation situations through time.

University Of Nevada, Reno - Catherine S. Fowler