Ute History
Ute people seem to have lived in the area of North America
that is now the states of Utah and Colorado beginning at least as early
as 500 AD. They had no stories about coming
to this area, which means that they must have been there a long time. Their
language was related to the language of other people who lived near them
like Comanche people and Shoshone
people, but it was also related to the Aztec
language spoken in Mexico, far to the south. They called themselves the
Nuche, which means "the people" in their language.
Ute people did not have one king or chief, but lived in many small bands that traveled around hunting and gathering their food.
Ute people did not have one king or chief, but lived in many small bands that traveled around hunting and gathering their food.
Ute people used plain gray pottery
to cook their food and to store water. They
also used a lot of baskets, sometimes covered with tar or pitch to make
them waterproof.
Some time after the collapse of the Anasazi
towns to their south about 1300 AD, Ute people moved south and took over
some of the land that the Anasazi had controlled.
Ute architecture
The Ute after 1500 AD
The Navajo
The Cherokee
The Iroquois
To find out more about Navajo history, check out these books from Amazon.com
or from your library:
Tales
Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia
by Sally Pomme Clayton (2000). For kids.
Empire Of The Mongolians, by Michael Burgan (2005). Young adult.
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