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Utah Geological Association
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The Rise and Fall of the Uintah Valley Indian Reservation: Perception and Policy
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Settlement of the Uinta Basin revolved about the conflict between the Mormons and the federal government over control of Utah Territory. The Uintah Valley Indian Reservation was created in 1861 as a strategem in that conflict. The Mormon’s negative perception of the agricultural value of the basin in 1861 led them to abandon settlement plans in the face of the establishment of the reservation. In later years the Ute Indians demonstrated the area’s fertility when national policy encouraged them to farm. White settlers then began to encroach upon the reservation. The subsequent national movement to assimilate the Indians into “civilization” advocated alloting individual homesteads to the Indians. In the Uinta Basin this meant a large reduction in the amount of land held by the Indians. The Mormons and others took advantage of this national policy toward the Indians to open the reservation to white settlement in 1905. While political policies shaped the timing and location of settlement in the Uinta Basin, the perception of the agricultural value of the land conditioned the thinking of the policy makers and settlers.
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