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Beskrivning
Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.
Virginia McConnell Simmons is the author of The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (UPC) and The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross (UPC)., as well as hundreds of articles for journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Recensioner i media
"Simmons movingly and accurately relates this human tragedy [of modern Ute history] even into the cultural revitalization movements of recent times."—Choice
Innehållsförteckning
; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1; Mother Earth, Father Sky; 2; The Nuu-ci; 3; The Coming of the White Man (1598-1821); 4; Trappers, Traders, and Transition (1810-1846); 5; On a Collision Course (1846-1858); 6; Sherman's Solution: Freeze and Starve (1859-1867); 7; Attempts to Create Reservations (1868-1874); 8; Beating Plowshares into Swords (1875-1881); 9; The Unraveling Begins (1882-1895); 10; Disorder and Chaos (1896-1915); 11; From the Ashes: Today's Ute Indians; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
