The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Jews in Zion,” pp. 187–220 by Jack Goodman Except for the pitifully few American Indians occupying remnant of their once pristine homeland, we are a nation peopled solely by the descendants of immigrants. “Americans all, immigrants all,” Franklin Roosevelt once said. Rather than a melting pot, the United States as …
The Peoples of Utah, The Pioneer Chinese of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Pioneer Chinese of Utah,” pp. 251–77 by Don C. Conley The distance from the subtropical rice paddies of China’s southernmost province to the mountainous desert of the Great Basin spans one-third of the earth’s circumference. Along this tumultuous course of Pacific Ocean waves and Sierra Nevada mountain peaks came …
The Peoples of Utah, After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah,” pp. 437–68 by Vicente V. Mayer Poor Mexico! So far from God and so near to the United States. ..Attributed to Porfirio Diaz To the Spanish is owed the distinction of being the first Europeans to explore, map, and describe the area …
The Peoples of Utah, The Continental Inheritance
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Continental Inheritance,” pp. 221–50 by Davis Bitton and Gordon Irving [We are] all the descendants of immigrants. That is, in fact, the quality and the experience all of us have in common; the differences are of degree only in that for some of us the experience is immediate and …
The Peoples of Utah, The Utes, Southern Paiutes, and Gosiutes
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Utes, Southern Paiutes, and Goshiutes,” pp. 27–59″ by Floyd A. O’Neil “….. teach ’em to speak Ute. And don’t let them ever forget how we’re supposed to live, who we are, where we came from.”…Connor Chapoose Confined on reservations, no longer free to range over the mountains and deserts …
The Peoples of Utah, Introduction
Helen Zeese Papanikolas based on The Peoples of Utah, 1976 (updated by Phil Notarianni) Utah has long ceased being an agrarian society of a “peculiar people.” Although still predominately Mormon, many cultures have contributed to its unique essence in this lost domain of the Indians. Only a few Spanish priests in 1776 and, later, explorers and trappers had briefly entered …
Nancy Kelsey, the First White Woman to Cross Utah
Lyndia Carter History Blazer, November 1996 “Where my husband goes I can go. I can better stand the hardships of the journey than the anxieties for an absent husband.” With those words Nancy Kelsey began a journey across country no white woman had ever made. With her baby on her hip, Nancy, who had just turned 18 a few days …
The Late Prehistoric Millennium
Steven R. Simms Utah State University, Logan Based on: Simms, Steven R. Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). New York: Routledge, 2008/2016. It is tempting to attempt to know the last 1,000 years of Native American history by simply extending backwards from Utah’s historically known peoples, the Shoshone, …
Late Prehistoric Period
Steven R. SimmsEmeritus Professor of AnthropologyUtah State University, Logan Based on:Simms, Steven R. 2008/2016 Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). Routledge, New York. It is tempting know the last 1,000 years of Native American history by simply extending backwards from Utah’s historically known peoples, the Shoshone, Ute, Southern Paiute, …
Enoch
Adapted from: Seegmiller, Janet Burton. A History of Iron County: Community Above Self. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998; Webster, Richard M. “Enoch History Review.” https://www.cityofenoch.org/uploads/3/0/3/1/30314955/richard_webster_historical_account.pdf, accessed April 28, 2020. “A History of Johnson’s Fort or Enoch as it is Known.” https://www.cityofenoch.org/uploads/3/0/3/1/30314955/earl_olsen_historical_account.pdf, accessed April 28, 2020; “Roaring 2000’s.” https://www.cityofenoch.org/roaring-2000s.html, accessed April 28, 2020. Enoch was settled along a …