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Beneath These Red Cliffs

An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes

by Ronald L. Holt

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foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah


In this new and updated edition, Ronald L. 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. The recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, but the act revived the Paiutes' identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of possibility.

 

Ronald L. Holt is professor of anthropology at Weber State University.

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  • Paperback Price: $25.95
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-087421-637-0
  • Publication Year: 2006
  • Pages: 214
  • Discount Type: Short
  • Author: by Ronald L. Holt
  • ECommerce Code: 978-087421-637-0
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