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Show that information related to Ute traditional cultural properties might be found in document collections maintained by the United States. To determine the scope and contents of the various federal archives' holdings, the Uintah Basin Replacement Project researchers systematically surveyed Bureau of Indian Affairs ( Record Group 75) and cartographic records housed at the National Archives, holdings of the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. The following report describes our findings. Organization of the report text follows the chronological organization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and National Anthropological Archives collections themselves. The description of documents begins with the holdings of Record Group 75, Letters Received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA) 1824- 1881, moves briefly to the Special Case Files covering years from 1807- 1904, and it ends with a detailed discussion of materials located in the, Central Classified Files of the BIA, 1908- 1940. National Anthropological Archives collection hold information about aspects of Ute culture in the years 1873 and 1914. The content of this collection is noted at the appropriate place within the chronological framework of the report. None of the federal documents examined during this survey provide site- specific discussions of spiritual or ritual related lands within the Uintah- Ouray Reservation. There are also no documents in the federal collections that discuss Ute origins, cultural history, or the nature of their world. There are no |
