AltaMira Press
Pages: 174
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7591-0709-0 • Hardback • October 2004 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
978-0-7591-0710-6 • Paperback • October 2004 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Frances Leon Quintana received her Ph. D. in 1966 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1968-78, she served as Curator of Ethnology at the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico, where she specialized in the ethnology and ethnohistory of Hispanic communities. Richard O. Clemmer is Professor of Anthropology at University of Denver. He did social and economic research among the Southern Utes as a Tribal employee from 1981 to 1983.
1 Preface
2 Acknowledgements
3 Chapter 1: The Crucible
4 Chapter 2: The Context of Change
5 Chapter 3: Consequences of Allotment
6 Chapter 4: Crisis: "Self Support"
7 Chapter 5: Statistics of Change
8 Chapter 6: Elements of Contact Relations
9 Chapter 7: Categories of Change
10 Conclusions
11 Afterword
12 Notes
13 Bibliography
14 Index
15 About the Authors
This is a story all too familiar in the history of western reservations, but here told with a depth of documentation and authoritativeness that leaves little doubt of the seriousness of the threat to the survival of the Southern Ute as a people during these crucial years. Richard Clemmer's Afterword contributes to the profile, taking the tribe from the dark days of the first 50 years to the brighter times of the Indian New Deal, self determination, and better economic and social situations to present (1926-2000). Combined the two accounts provide an informative picture of the outside influences on the Southern Ute people over the 125-year period that is at once distressing to read, with its chronicle of misunderstanding, greed and downright deception, especially in the early years, to the more refreshing situation for the Tribe in recent years. The book also serves as model for other histories and analyses of additional western reservation situations through time.
— Catherine S. Fowler; University Of Nevada, Reno