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Beneath These Red Cliffs: An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes

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Ronald L. Holt
2006
Published by: Utah State University Press
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Ronald Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. That recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, in an act that revived the Paiutes’ identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of possibility. 

With a foreword by Lora Tom, chair of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. iii-iv

Contents

pp. v

ILLUSTRATIONS

pp. vi

TABLES

pp. vii-viii

FOREWORD

pp. ix-x

Foreword to the New Edition

pp. xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp. xiii-xiv

INTRODUCTION

pp. xv-xviii

Update, 2005

pp. xix-xxiv

1. Occupation and Dependency

pp. 3-31

2. From Neglect to Lethargy: The Trust Betrayed

pp. 32-60

3. The Agony of Termination

pp. 61-97

4. The Forgotten Tribe

pp. 98-124

5. Restoration and Reservation

pp. 125-147

6. Beyond the BIA: The Paiute Future

pp. 148-154

Appendix: Methods and Sources

pp. 155-158

NOTES

pp. 159-164

REFERENCES CITED

pp. 165-186

INDEX

pp. 187-197
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