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Ordeal of Change
Frances Leon Quintana
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Description for Ordeal of Change
Hardback. An outline of the history of the Southern Ute Indians since the conquest of their lands and their treatment by the U.S. federal government. Num Pages: 174 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Published for the first time, these early writings of renowned anthropologist Frances Leon Quintana boldly detail the exploitation and the gradual present day recovery of the Southern Utes Indians following the American conquest of their ancestral lands in 1877 and their subsequent treatment at the hands of the U.S. federal government. Ordeal of Change includes the historical trajectory of the tribe's development and subsequent adaptations from 1877-1926, a statistical survey demonstrating the impact of Indian relocation and the redistribution of their tribal lands on the demographic and economic status of the tribe, and an thoughtful analysis of this data. The ... Read more
Published for the first time, these early writings of renowned anthropologist Frances Leon Quintana boldly detail the exploitation and the gradual present day recovery of the Southern Utes Indians following the American conquest of their ancestral lands in 1877 and their subsequent treatment at the hands of the U.S. federal government. Ordeal of Change includes the historical trajectory of the tribe's development and subsequent adaptations from 1877-1926, a statistical survey demonstrating the impact of Indian relocation and the redistribution of their tribal lands on the demographic and economic status of the tribe, and an thoughtful analysis of this data. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759107090
SKU
V9780759107090
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About Frances Leon Quintana
Frances Leon Quintana received her Ph. D. in 1966 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1968-78, she served as Curator of Ethnology at the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico, where she specialized in the ethnology and ethnohistory of Hispanic communities. Richard O. Clemmer is Professor of Anthropology at University of Denver. He did social ... Read more
Reviews for Ordeal of Change
This is a story all too familiar in the history of western reservations, but here told with a depth of documentation and authoritativeness that leaves little doubt of the seriousness of the threat to the survival of the Southern Ute as a people during these crucial years. Richard Clemmer’s Afterword contributes to the profile, taking the tribe from the dark ... Read more