The Ute Mountain Utes

ROBERT W. DELANEY

Publication: University of New Mexico Press, 1989, Albuquerque

First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xi [3], 134 pp., foreword, preface, illustrated from photographs, portraits, maps, introduction, notes, essay on sources, index. Using both documentary sources and oral traditions, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Ute Mountain Utes. "Through the history of one Indian group we come to understand Indian-white relations and the evolution of the trustee role of the U. S. Government" (from dust jacket). An ethnographic and historical study of the Ute Mountain Ute people of the American Southwest, examining their history, social organization, customs, and relationship to the land, with particular attention to the impact of U.S. expansion, reservation life, and cultural change. Fine in dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine.