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Show discussions of rituals or rules for participation in them. Federal documents, do however, deal with the political and economic realities of life on the reservation in great detail. The correspondence and reports on these subjects are voluminous. In all cases, federal documents relate more to the United States interests and understandings concerning Uintah- Ouray Reservation lands than to those of the Indians. All the federal documents that contained visual images related to the reservation life and Ute culture were copied and are included in the documents submitted with this report. The images include both photographs and maps documenting specific rituals," land use patterns on the reservation, and especially the growth of the on- reservation communities during the early decades of the twentieth century. These images may prompt the memory of living tribal elders during interviews and evoke memories that supplement the one- sided federal record with a Ute perspective of life on the, reservation. The documents submitted with this report are only a representative sample of the information available in the federal record. Even though the papers submitted herewith do not add significant information related to ethnographic topics, they clearly show the kinds of locational information that is available in the federal archives and the changing nature of the relationship between the Utes and the United States over time. Federal Collections, 1824- 1880 |
