Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young by Virginia Kerns

Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young

In Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young, Virginia Kerns tells the story of Sally, a Pahvant Ute woman whose life was profoundly shaped by the settlement of Utah and her time living in the household of Brigham Young. While the book centers on the experiences of a single individual, Kerns demonstrates that Sally’s life provides a lens through which to understand broader historical, cultural, and social dynamics. Through her narrative, readers gain insight into the intersections of Native American experiences, Mormon settlement, and frontier society, including issues of captivity, cultural negotiation, and survival.

Kerns contends that the study of one life can illuminate the complexities of an entire community, revealing facets of human history that are often overlooked. Sally’s story not only chronicles her personal struggles and resilience but also reflects the larger patterns of interaction, adaptation, and conflict between Indigenous peoples and Euro-American settlers in the nineteenth-century American West.

The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes, an Advocate's Chronicle

PDF DOWNLOAD AUDIO BOOK The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes, an Advocate's Chronicle. In this disturbing and provocative study, Salt Lake City attorney Parker M. Nielson chronicles the termination of the mixed-blood Utes from the Northern Ute Indian Tribe. He outlines how the termination process, initiated by Utah Senator Arthur V. Watkins, was visited on the Utes in a singular action by the U.S Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the only partial termination of any tribe in the nation. Termination for the mixedbloods meant loss of both tribal membership and any further claims upon the Bureau of Indian Affairs, similar to the impact of the termination policy upon other tribes in the 1950s. But for the mixed-blood terminated the losses went much further than being cut off from government assistance. Nielson, with first-hand information gained as legal representative for the terminated Utes, details how the separation of the terminees from tribal member...

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Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah by R. Warren Metcalf

Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah [PDF DOWNLOAD] Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah [AUDIO BOOK] Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities were strongly encouraged to terminate their status as wards of the federal government and develop greater economic and political power for themselves. During this era, the rights of many Native communities came under siege, and the tribal status of some was terminated. Most of the terminated communities eventually regained tribal status and federal recognition in subsequent decades. But not all did. The mixed-blood Utes fell outside the formal categories of classification by the federal government, they did not meet the essentialist expectations of some officials of the Mormon Church, and th...

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