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Show The Uintah Ute People 79 It is not known to which band he had originally belonged, but it was probably Uinta-ats. He was a leader in the contacts the Ute bands had with each. Later he came into prominence in dealings with non-Utes. However, despite Sowiette's influence, men like Antero, Kanosh, and Black Hawk retained their leadership over other groups of People. As Sowiette grew old and feeble, a new7 leader rose to deal with the intruders. This leader was Tabbv-to-kwanah, usuallv called Tabby. Understanding the hopelessness of their resistance, Tabby was willing to move to the Uintah Reservation, and he urged others to join him. During the negotiations of the 1865 Spanish Fork Treaty, he explained to Brigham Young and O. H. Irish: ... I love all of you and do not want to sec blood shed on the land. I want you to send a good father to Uintah; one that won't quarrel with us. ... I will go there. I love that country.3 O. H. Irish encouraged the other leaders to follow Tabby's example. He described the Uintah Reservation as: . . . Tabby's country there, and I think he wants to go and those with him. We want to make little farms for them all. We do not want to make a great big farm and have the government work it, but to make little farms and have you work them, and that the produce and everything on them will be yours, and you will have it. . . .4 In 1869 Tabby led his people to settle on the northern end of the Uinta Basin. Tumpanawach The Tumpanawach People occupied the valley of Utah Lake. The Wasatch Mountains rise from present-day Brigham City to beyond the southern end of Utah Lake. Along this ridge streams originating in the high mountains flow across the arid terrain to Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake. These streams watered wild seeds and grasslands; the mountains supported deer and mountain sheep. There were several groups of Ute People who lived around the shores of Utah Lake and in the canyons of the mountains to the east. The Tumpanawach probably became one large band, especially after the invasion of Europeans. Dominguez and Escalante visited Utah Lake in 1776. They called the People Timpanogotzis and Lagunas, or "fish-eaters." They observed that: |
