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Show between Pole Creek and the Uinta River ( 1.2; 4.2; Nickens 1984: 100- 1). This probably includes the area which another consultant described as approximately a half mile north of Pole Creek near the road to the youth camp ( 1.2). The third location is also not in the line of any direct impact, but it overlooks and is situated just above the Coyote Basin Pond. The entire cliff line north of the Yellowstone Feeder Canal and below John Starr Flat is an historic burial area of the Uncompaghre, and consultants recommended that no development should proceed there if it disturbs any burial grounds. This is an area where some desecration has already taken place at non- Indian hands, and this has been a source of great displeasure to the Utes who have known about it ( 1.3; 3.1; 4.2). Another location of this type is Whiterocks Canyon where scattered burial sites are known and reported in the caves and rocky crevices of this canyon including in areas near the river bed ( 1.2; 3.1; 4.1; 4.2). A final reported location is a burial ground with rocks all around it that is situated somewhere towards the Yellowstone River in the hills above Altonah ( 2.1). This is probably not near any of the areas considered for development. Besides the burial areas along cliffs, there are several other gravesite locations reported by consultants. Where the Whiterocks River flows through the high benches below the mouth of its canyon, there are numerous scattered gravesites. Many of these are not marked, especially those that were dug during times that contagious disease, especially the influenza epidemic of 1918- 1920, took large numbers of Utes ( 3.1; Harris, Oral History No. 54, 1967). On the west side of the Whiterocks River along much of its high bench course are burial sites, especially in the vicinity of the White River band's old settlement. There are also graves further to the west around some of the hills in the area and along the path where the proposed Whiterocks- Uintah Pipeline is to pass ( 1.2; 3.1; 4.2; 4.3). Also noted are burial grounds along the Uinta River south of the town of Whiterocks by a few miles ( 1.2; 4.1), and graves sites east of the river but north of the town beyond the water tower ( 3.1). Some isolated grave sites are found along the course of the Whiterocks- Uintah Pipeline, and this area needs to be gone over on foot with a Ute knowledgeable about such matters ( 4.2). There are graves which may be in the path of the proposed West- East Channel Pipeline ( 1.3; 4.2), burial sites in the vicinity of Ioka ( 3.1), and a small grave site north of Roosevelt along the road by Montes Creek that became exposed some years ago ( 3.1; 4.3). And finally, there are individual grave sites which are found in isolated areas on individual allotments, including along fence lines and at the corners of properties ( 4.2). 102 |
