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Show 27 Great Basin area od. Shoshonean branch of the Uto-Aztecan language Of the of Utah and Nevada ily, they battled traveling in By the time eastward as quisition an "bands" environment in their pre-history peri marginal that living so the exception rather than the was of the early Spanish explorations, they far the as of the horse tacts with the white of the periphery aided their mobility, and, as became or rule. had moved Great Plains increased, banding men fam area. Ac their con more pro ' nouncedv NSa'r the beginning of the American "we at.war-d movement, some seven has been were distinct bands existed with variously estimated occupying apprOXimately or the Recurrent lers culminated result were Two moved to a encroaching with so-called Meeker Massacre of deprived of bands, relocated. were some now reservations all were known in eventually By the fifteen million reservation in extreme other bands various difficulties in the of the Colorado.3 of the the They central Utah and eastern and over 10,000.2 from 3,500 -to western three-fourths of which the Utes the Utes land. ranging at membership which total a white 1879,4 as Colorado of were southwestern Colorado. The moved to Utah, part of which was the Uinta and Ouray already occupied by small bands of Utah Indians. The Reservation The three bands presently living on the a 1880, of Treaty acres sett Southern Utes, as tt reservation |
