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Show W E S H A L L R E M A I N : U TA H I N D I A N C U R R I C U L U M G U I D E 26 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints read Fre-mont's report and used it to determine potential settlement locations. The perceived isolation of the Great Basin kept most overland immigrants moving westward, but that very isolation attract-ed Mormons settlers. Unfortunately, all of these explorers and over-land travelers failed to recognize that the region's Native American peoples had long-standing claims and deep cultural ties to the land that is now Utah. Already dealing with changes from contact with non-Indians, Utah's tribes would face an even greater challenge when outsiders began to settle their homelands (for more in-formation on the story of white settlement of Utah and its impact on Utah's tribes, see the "Rethinking Manifest Destiny" lesson). Too fre-quently the story of Utah's settlement ignores the Indian perspective. However, it is important to see history from the Indian point of view because, ultimately, the story of contact-with the Spanish, with traders, with emigrants mov-ing through, and with settlers coming to stay- illustrates the great resilience of Utah's Indian people. AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY |