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Show The lands once held by the Ute Indians in the present- day State of Utah comprised roughly half of the entire state; perhaps even more. ( See map. p 16) There were many bands: in the northeastern corner of the state immediately south of the Unita Mountains was a small group of Ute residents known as the Uintah- ats; an additional small band dwelt in Weber Valley and were known as the Weber Utes, or Cumumbahs. The Cumumbahs were closely related to the Shoshoni people, who ranged to the north of that location. Upon the dissolution of the Cumumbahs, some of the people indeed chose to live among the Shoshonis. The largest of the groups who were resident in the present state of Utah were the Tumpanawacp They dwelt in a large community along the Provo^ River near the present site of Provo, Utah. Not only was this an areao^ jntense yield in terms of fish, fowl, and game, but it afforded a natural egress to additional hunting areas in the Uinta Basin, Spanish Fork Canyon, and Sanpete Valley. In all of these places the Utes hunted regularly. Immediately to the south of the Tumpanawach was a smaller band known as the San Pitch band. Their leader's name was San Pitch at the time of the arrival of the Mormons; hence, they became the San Pitch band. Further to the south and west of this group were the Pah Vant, who were in many of their food gathering, medicinal, and life- style patterns much like the neighboring Southern Paiutes who dwelt immediately to their south. In an area around Moab, Utah was a small band of people called Sheberetch. Not a great deal is known of this band except of its conflict with the whites and its struggle for existence which failed. In the 1870s and 1880s it was scattered and became part of neighboring bands of Utes. -_^ In the southeastern corner was a band of Utes called^ Wfieminuche. They are intact today as the Ute MountainJUtes just across the border from Utah in southwest Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. Their principal area of residence is Towaoc. In pre- white contact times, seven identifiable bands of Ute Indians dwelt at least partially in the States of Colorado and New Mexico. That band, which occupied the eastern arc of the Ute residence area, were called Moache. Their land stretched from the Cimmaron country of New Mexico to the area immediately south of Denver and southward to Pagosa Springs. Immediately to the west of this group was a band called Kapota. The central part of their homeland included the environs of the Animas, Piedra, Los Pinos, and San Juan rivers. Immediately westward from them in the area of the upper Delores River Valley to the Abajo Mountains in Utah dwelt a group called Weeminuche ( mentioned above). The area of Montrose, Colorado was used by the Taviwache as their homeland. Their hunting ground extended to modern- day Silverton, Colorado and to the vicinity of Aspen. Another group of Utes occupied the area of Glenwood Springs, Colorado as a summer residence area. This group was called Parianuche. A band called Yamparika occupied the area of the Yampa |
