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Show CHAP. XHI. THE GOSH YUTA, ETC. 475 ritory, on the Humboldt River, number 6000, and in the south 2200 souls; _ they extend from forty miles west of Stony Point to the Californian line, and northwest to the Oregon line, and inhabit the valley of the Fenelon River, which, rising from Lake Big-ler, empties itself into Pyramid Lake. The term means Water Yuta, that is to say, those who live upon fish which they take from lakes and rivers in wiers and traps of willow, perferring that diet to roots, grass-seed, lizards, and crickets, the food of the other so-called Digger tribes. Gosh Yuta, or Gosha Ute, is a small band, once protiges of the Shoshonee, who have the same lauguage and limits. Their principal chief died about five years ago, when the tribe was broken up. A body of sixty, under a peaceful leader, were settled permanently on the Indian farm at Deep Creek, and the remainder wandered 40 to 200 miles west of Great Salt Lake City. Through this tribe our road lay; during the late tumults they have lost fifty warriors, and are now reduced to about 200 men. Like the Ghuzw of Arabia, they strengthen themselves by admitting the outcasts of other tribes, and will presently become a mere banditti. Pavant, or Parovan Yuta, are a distinct and self-organized tribe, under one principal and several sub-chiefs, whose total is set down at 700 souls. Half of them are settled on the Indian farm at Corn Creek; the other wing of the tribe lives along Sevier Lake, and the surrounding country in the northeast extremity of Fillmore Valley, fifty miles from the city, where they join the Gosh Yuta. The Pavants breed horses, wear clothes of various patterns, grow grain, which the Gosh Yutas will not, and are as brave and improvable as their neighbors are mean and vile. Timpenaguchya,* or Timpana Yuta, corrupted into Tenpenny Utes, who dwell about the kanyon of that name, and on the east of the Sweetwater Lake. Of this tribe was the chief Wakara, who so called himself after Walker, the celebrated trapper; the notorious horse-stealer proved himself a friend to the Latter-Day Saints. He died at Meadow Creek, six miles from Fillmore City, on the 29th of January, 1855, and at his obsequies two squaws, two Pa Yuta children, and fifteen of his best horses composed the "customs." Uinta Yuta, in the mountains south of Fort Bridger, and in the Country along the Green River. Of this tribe, which contains a total of 1000, a band of 500," under four chiefs, lately settled on •the Indian reservations at Spanish Fork. Sampichya, corrupted to San Pete Utas; about eighty warriors, settled on the Indian farm at San Pete. This and the Spanish- Fork Farm number 900 inhabitants. Elk-Mountain Yutas, who are set down at 2000 souls, by some mid Lake, 320 souls; 12. The second Wanamuka's hand, 500 in number, along the shores of the Northern Mud Lake. * In the Yuta language meaning "water among the stones." |
