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stock of settlers." Orders were given not to feed the purpose of plunder. They would steal stock and kill the settlers whenever they had the chance. settling in the land they were a part of. But the settlers These archaic Amerind people knew where to harvest food and where to hunt. They knew how to make use of nature's gifts, living off the land that they were a part of. Then in the late 1800's, white man arrived in Sanpete. life, destroying a culture he did not want or could not These early people believed that in the beginning there was the creator, Tawa , who ruled over a domain of endless space and time and whose power was the source of all life, the sun. Tawa created the stars and planets of Man is of the earth... References: Digest Association, Inc. Pleasantville, New York, Montreal. 1986 The Other 49ers. Sanpete County Coraniission. Western Epics, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1982 Utah's Heritage. S. George Ellsworth Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest. William M. Ferguson and Arthur H. Rohm. Utah Vol. I. J. Cecil Alter. 25 |