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Show century, rarely focus on continuing traditional culture among the Utes. Between 1900 and 1930, agents were preoccupied with the allotment of reservation lands, building irrigation canals to replace the former hunting and gathering economy with agriculture, and with restricting traditional hunting and gathering activities at sites on and off the reservation. While the majority of traditional culture properties guidelines focus on sites with ritual significance, the locations mentioned in government documents during the twentieth century address another category of important properties- rural communities on the reservation whose organization, buildings and structures, and patterns of land use reflect the cultural traditions valued by its long- term traditions valued by its long- term residents. Documents relating to the evolving rural Ute communities are the primary focus of the majority of federal documents within this time period. One exception to this general trend is a small, collection of ethnographic information related to Ute ritual housed at the National Anthropological Archives. These documents were created by Francis Densmore, an ethnographer sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, who visited ceremonies on the flat plains about four miles south of White Rocks. 8 In 1914 Densmore documented the songs and dances that she saw there with photographs. Xerox copies of the original photographs are included 8 Jorgensen 1972: 22- 23 |