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U ulu Among Eskimo people, a woman’s knife, crescent-shaped, with a bone, ivory, or wood handle. umiak Among Inuits (Eskimos), a large, open boat of hides stretched over a framework of wood. As much as thirty feet long, it can transport many people or lots of freight. (See also kayak.) Uncle Tomahawk The Indian equivalent of an Uncle Tom, a red man who is overaccommodating or subservient to whites. The Indian equivalent of what blacks call an Oreo (black outside and white inside) is an apple. uncork a horse To take the edges off a bronc, the beginning of breaking it; to ride a bucking horse into submission. Also said as unrooster. United Order The United Order of Enoch, an economic utopian concept of Joseph Smith’s. He proposed that all worldly goods be shared communally by Mormons. They experimented with it in Ohio and Missouri but failed; in the 1870s, they made an effort at Brigham City and Orderville, Utah, but it didn’t last. Though polygamous factions experimented with this style of cooperative living even in the twentieth century, the orthodox church no longer advocates it. unshucked Cowboy talk for naked. An unshucked gun is one that’s out of the holster. untrack a horse To lead a horse forward a little before mounting. If the horse is in a mood to blow up, he’s likely to show it at that point. Old hands don’t get on a horse without untracking it. up and down as a cow’s tail Cowboy talk for honest, straightforward. up to trap Said by mountain men of an experienced trapper, a man who knew what he was doing. Another expression with the same meaning is up to beaver. The opposite is don’t know what way the stick floats. uranium on the cranium Utah slang for the mental state of uranium prospectors in canyon country. Ute A Uto-Aztecan people who lived, from the time of white contact, in western Colorado and eastern Utah. The name of the tribe, meaning “high up” or “land of the sun,” is also rendered as Utah, Utaw, and Eutaw. The Indians called Ute Diggers were Paiutes. In the nineteenth century, Anglos called them Goshutes, Grasshopper Indians, and Land Pitches. When the Utes, primarily hunter-gathers, acquired the horse in the late 1600s, they adopted a nomadic life similar to that of the Plains Indians, yet they rarely hunted buffalo. In the nineteenth century, they developed a Ute 403 ...

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