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"Ute Indian Prayer Trees of the Pikes Peak Region is a book about Culturally Modified Trees, skillfully shaped by the hands of the indigenous people of Colorado, which can still be found today in the Pikes Peak Region. John Wesley Anderson shares the beginning of his journey into the past which led him across the ancestral homeland of the Ute to seek an understanding of these living Native American cultural artifacts. John shares the wisdom of the...
4) Some history and reminiscences of the San Luis Valley, Colorado: the United States in a microcosm
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Who does this land belong to? How have cultures gained access to this land? Who gets to decide who is right? These are questions that inspired Nash to write the book. Although in recent decades there have been significant studies and reports on the history [of the] San Luis Valley, and more generally the southwestern United States, this intriguing story is largely unknown to many residents. More importantly, most of the history commonly known is told...
Series
Colorado experience volume 113
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for...