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Show these databases under Ute Indians included: ethnobotany, botany, herbaria, and materia- medica. C. Oral History Interviews The Marriott Library at the University of Utah houses one of the largest collections of American Indian oral histories in the United States. The vast majority of these oral histories were recorded in the 1960s and 1970s under the auspices of the American West Center also at the University of Utah. Between 1967 and 1972, oral histories were recorded with more than twenty different Ute elders from communities in Utah and Colorado. All of the Ute oral history manuscripts were studied. Transcriptions of oral history interviews with elders of Ute ancestry from the Uinta Basin include those of George Walkup, Dewey Arapoo, W. A. Banks, Lulu Wash Brock, Connor Chapoose, Louise Pawwinee Cuch, Oran F. Curry, Hal Albert Daniels, Sr. and Jr., Sarah Van Hackford, Henry Harris, Muse Harris, Robert Jenks, Wilson Johnson, Robert Ouray, Jasper Pike, Archie Serawap, and Gertrude Chapoose. These people represented a wide range of communities within the reservation including Lapoint, Whiterocks, Randlett, Neola, and Fort Duchesne. In addition, transcripts of interviews with Nathan Bird of Colorado, L. B. Titus of Moab and Claude Taylor, Clifford Pete and John Pendelton of Parowan were also reviewed. D. Interviews with Ute Consultants After consulting with the Northern Ute Tribe's Cultural Preservation director, Betsy Chapoose, and after receiving tribal access permits for the period between May 21 to July 22, 1995, we began to contact knowledgeable Utes recommended to us for interviewing. In this short period of time, and as a result of changes in tribal leadership, we were unable to interview as wide a sampling of Northern Utes as we had originally wanted. Instead, we decided to move in the direction of comprehensive and intensive consultations with a smaller number of informed Northern Utes. With two of the five Utes who consulted with us, we were able spend several days traveling to most of the sites under planned impact. Arrangements were made with a third consultant to do the same thing but unfortunately we were unable to pursue this because our access permit had expired at a time when there were uncertainties about who was to be legally seated on the Tribal Business Committee. Although we were scheduled to appear at a general meeting before the Business Committee with Betsy Chapoose, this meeting was canceled because of a court order. At this point, a decision was made not to press for an additional extension to conduct more consultations but to write up the technical report based on the comprehensive and detailed body of 31 |
