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Show 404 UNIDENTIFIED TRIBES- UTES NOTED. information of a nation they call Guamua, 8 who were friends of the Moqui, and enemies of theirs. They named yet other nations whom they called Guanabepe, Gualliba, and Aguachacha, 9 who also are their enemies. I asked if the Yabipais Lipan10 were good, and they said to me, " Yea " ; whence I inferred that the horses which these Yabipais possess will be of those stolen from us by these other Yabipais Lipan or Apaches, and that the hostility will be only with the Yabipais Tejua who live in the sierras of the Rio de la Asumpcion. Aside from the Yutas11 and Chemegua- • Not identified.- F. W. H. • These tribes also remain unidentified.- F. W. H. 10 These were Apaches, a note on whom will be found beyond. " Ute or Uta, whence the name of the State of Utah. A Shoshonean tribe or group of tribes formerly occupying the central and western portions of Colorado and the northeastern part of Utah, including the eastern part of Salt Lake valley and Utah valley; on the south they extended into New Mexico, occupying much of the area drained by the upper Rio San Juan. The Utes manifested a warlike spirit from early times, and their aggressive character became intensified with the acquirement of horses, probably from the Pueblos on the upper Rio Grande and the Hopi or Moki of N. E. Arizona. Of their political organization little is known, but it is possible that the various Uta divisions were once united into* a loose confederacy; indeed, the seven Uta tribes of Utah were found to be organized into a confederacy - in 1873 under chief Tabby ( Tavivi). In the northern part of their range they became considerably intermixed with the northern Shoshoneans- the Bannock, Shoshoni, and Paiute- and on the south, in later times, with the Jicarilla |
