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Beneath These Red Cliffs : An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes
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ISBN: 0874216370 9786613078025 0874215420 1283078023 9780874215427 9781283078023 9780874216370 Year: 2006 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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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

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