Brandi Denison is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida.

"A welcome edition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Ute."-Curtis Martin, Southwestern Lore “Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. [This book] is grounded on a solid understanding of history, while also providing insightful interpretation and theoretical nuance.”-Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest“This terrific book shows how white settlers in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land Religion’ to justify their appropriation of Native land, how Ute people both resisted and participated in that invention, and how the category of religion has functioned in the making and remaking of the American West.”-Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom

• List of Illustrations    List of Maps    Acknowledgments    Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West    1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly    2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land    3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian    4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation    5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land    6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow    Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory    Notes    Bibliography    Index

Brandi Denison is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida.

"A welcome edition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Ute."-Curtis Martin, Southwestern Lore “Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. [This book] is grounded on a solid understanding of history, while also providing insightful interpretation and theoretical nuance.”-Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest“This terrific book shows how white settlers in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land Religion’ to justify their appropriation of Native land, how Ute people both resisted and participated in that invention, and how the category of religion has functioned in the making and remaking of the American West.”-Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom

• List of Illustrations    List of Maps    Acknowledgments    Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West    1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly    2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land    3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian    4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation    5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land    6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow    Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory    Notes    Bibliography    Index

Brandi Denison is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida.

"A welcome edition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Ute."-Curtis Martin, Southwestern Lore “Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. [This book] is grounded on a solid understanding of history, while also providing insightful interpretation and theoretical nuance.”-Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest“This terrific book shows how white settlers in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land Religion’ to justify their appropriation of Native land, how Ute people both resisted and participated in that invention, and how the category of religion has functioned in the making and remaking of the American West.”-Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom

• List of Illustrations    List of Maps    Acknowledgments    Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West    1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly    2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land    3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian    4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation    5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land    6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow    Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory    Notes    Bibliography    Index