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Show 104 The Southern Utes For an in-depth view, however, a review of the letters sent and received by the agents is a necessity. Although this source has not been used extensively, these letters give a fresh look at the Anglo mind as he tried to "improve" the lot of the Indian. This collection is vast, and is contained largely in the Social and Economic Branch of the National Archives. An additional body of materials is lodged in the Denver Federal Records Center at Region 8 Headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Both the Denver Center and the National Archives have great capability and their response will not impede the researcher from working in a creditable and expeditious manner. The old military records are also of importance; this is particularly true of the "Fort Lewis Military Records," a collection of more than 5,000 pages relating to the history of the Fort which was created from part of the Southern Ute Reservation. A description of this collection is available in "Fort Lewis Records," Floyd A. O'Neil and Gregory C. Thompson, Colorado Historical Magazine, Vol. 46, no. 2, Spring, 1969, pp. 166-68. Other records, such as the records of Fort Massachusetts, Fort Garland, Fort Wingate, and Fort Steele have references and materials of some importance to Southern Ute history, but from a military point of view the Fort Lewis collection is by far the most important. Federal Treaties and laws relating to the Utes for the period of 1849 to 1903 are found in Charles N. Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, 2 vols., G.P.O., Washington, D.C., 1904. Statutes-at-Large and Cession Laws after 1903, a valuable collection of records documenting important economic, social, and political changes on the reservation, are mandatory for any index study. The Cartographic Division of the National Archives has many maps of Southern Ute territory, as does the Library of Congress Collection in Arlington, Virginia. Governmental records during Spanish and Mexican times are best reviewed at the New Mexico State Records Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Spanish and Mexican archives are now on microfilm. Four bibliographies should be mentioned: Stewart, Omer C, Ethnohistorical Bibliography of the Ute Indians of Colorado. University of Colorado Studies: Series in Anthropology, No. 18. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 1971; Tyler, S. Lyman, The Ute People: A Bibliographical Checklist. Provo, Utah: Brigham |
