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Phantoms in the Pinyon: An Investigation Of UTE-Pueblo Contacts1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Joyce Kayser
Joyce Kayser*
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Flagstaff, Arizona
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Abstract

Despite Fewkes's reports of 1909 and 1916 that a legend of a battle with the Anasazi was obtained from the Utes, such knowledge was denied by all Southern Utes queried in 1963. Their matter-of-fact acceptance of a common identity between the ruins builders and the modern Pueblo peoples, together with evidence from Spanish documents, led to the hypothesis that the Utes have had a long, unbroken (if somewhat peripheral), and for the most part nonviolent contact with the Anasazi-Pueblo. Spanish records also suggest that eastern Utes in early historic times had become quite unlike their more closely studied Great Basin relatives, and that as participants in the general plains culture they had further contact with the Pueblos and the Spanish. Evidence that an Athapascan intrusion successfully blocked Ute-Pueblo contact seems far from conclusive.

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2 Anthropology
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Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 19: Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project , October 1965 , pp. 82 - 91
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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This is Contribution No. 10 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.

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