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Author:

Denison, Brandi, author.

Title:

Ute land religion in the American West, 1879-2009 / Brandi Denison.

Publisher:

Co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ute Indians--Religion.
Ute Indians--History.
Ute Indians--Land tenure.
Whites--Relations with Indians.
Ute Indians.
Ute Indians--Land tenure.
Ute Indians--Religion.
Whites--Relations with Indians.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Where it was; where it happened": religion, memory, and the American West -- Plowing for providence: Nathan Meeker's folly -- Of outrageous treatment: sexual purity, empire, and land -- She-towitch and Chipeta: remembering the "good" Indian -- Abstracting Ute land religion: fiction and anthropology on the reservation -- Remembering removal: enacting religion and memorializing the land -- The limits of reconciliation: Ute land religion, hunting rights, and the Smoking River Powwow -- Conclusion: the burden of dirt: the politics of memory and ownership.

Summary:

"A regional history of contact between Utes and white settlers, from 1879-2009, that examines the production of an idealized American religion in the American West through the intersection of religion, land, and cultural memory."--Provided by publisher.

Series:

New visions in Native American and indigenous studies

ISBN:

0803276745
9780803276741

OCLC:

(OCoLC)962258295

LCCN:

2016041536

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)