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Show The Uintah Ute People The Ute People who are now called the Uintah Utes acquired that name from the Basin reserved for them in Utah. Many of them are descended from people who called themselves Uinta-ats and who lived in the Basin. Most others are descended from Tum-panawach, Pah Vant, and San Pitch People who lived in other parts of Utah. Some are even descended from other Indian groups who intermarried with the Utah People. However, as the different groups were moved onto the Uintah Reservation, they all became known as the Uintah. Uinta-ats The band which we know as the Uinta-ats traveled in the Uinta Basin. It was an area bordered by the Uinta Mountains to the north and the Wasatch Mountains to the west. Streams originated in the mountains, and as they flowed into the Duchesne and Green Rivers, they watered grasslands. The Basin was an area of good fishing and good hunting. The mountain areas teemed with game, mainly deer and mountain sheep, and the flatlands supported antelope and buffalo. However, there were not large numbers of Uinta-ats living in the Basin, and most of the families living there were fairly independent groups. A group was limited to the few residents of fertile areas such as the streams at the foot of the Uinta Range. One single band did not include all the People of the Basin.1 Small groups did help each other gather food in the summer time and joined forces for winter hunts. Before the horse the Ute People in the Uintah area devoted much of their time to gathering plants and hunting small game. The family, or small group of families, spent the summer searching for all manner of plant food â€" roots, nuts, and berries. And Uinta-ats People ate fish in abundance. They devised many creative techniques to supply themselves plentifully with fish. They made funnel-shaped baskets and woven mat platforms and placed them below waterfalls to catch fish. They dammed rivers beyond bends and then rolled logs into the water to force the fish to the dam. They anchored baskets in the water at |