History 4130 Weeks 6-7

The Land   | The People

    Judith Freeman will be reading from her new book Red Water March 18, 7:00, Huntsville Library

We will meet March 11 in the library 138 -- north of reference -- to work on resource guide sources.

The Land

reading: Alexander, Chapter 1

Wayne Hinton at SUU has created a summary of each of the chapters in Utah: The Right Place: http://www.suu.edu/ced/distance/hist3870/introduc.htm

project: From where do you get the following: culinary water? electricity? natural gas? Where do you live in relation to the Great Salt Lake? the Wasatch Range? a bench of Lake Bonneville?

Utah Geography: http://www.nr.usu.edu/Geography-Department/utgeog/utgeog.html

Shoreline levels from Lake Bonneville to Great Salt Lake:
http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/units/great.salt.lake/LAYOUT3.html

The Utah Water Atlas: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/uwrl/atlas/

Great Basin

Short description of the Great Basin: http://www.desertusa.com/du_basin.html

Great Basin--Mojave Desert Region: http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/gb150.htm

Colorado Plateau

Colorado Plateau precipitation maps: http://pinyon.bio.nau.edu/data/cpmaps.html

Interactive map for Colorado Plateau: http://www.coloradoplateau.net/index2.html

Information about the Coloardo Plateau from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: http://www.suwa.org/WATE/cpintro.html

The People  

readings: Alexander, Chapter 2
projects: Who are the natives of Utah? Fremont people, Anasazi, Ute, Paiute, Goshute, Northwestern Shoshone, Navajo

    Internet Resources:

Indians of the Great Basin: http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/~crsmith/noamer_basin.html

Pre-contact Indians of the Four Corners: http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_ancient.html 

Anasazi Archeology with links to several resources: 
http://swcolo.org/Tourism/ArchaeologyHome.html

From the Granite School District, information about the Anasazi:
http://www.media.granite.k12.ut.us/Curriculum/anasazi/

Fremont Indian State Park: http://www.desertusa.com/freut/du_fre_desc.html

"The Fremont Tour": http://www.surweb.org/surweb/tour/fremont/

About.com has a resource list for the Southwest (4 corners) which includes links to information about Native Americans: http://www.media.granite.k12.ut.us/Curriculum/anasazi/

Canyons, Cultures, and Environmental Change includes information about land use by Native Americans of the Colorado Plateau: http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/people.htm

OnLine Utah has links to information on Indians of Utah: http://www.onlineutah.com/ute.shtml

From American Memory, photos of Utes: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawpSubjects359.html

Utah Division of Indian Affairs: http://www.dced.state.ut.us/indian/index.html

Northern Ute Web Page: http://www.ubtanet.com/~northernute/index.html

Skull Valley Goshutes Web Page: http://skullvalleygoshutes.org/

Ute Mountain Ute Web Page: http://www.swcolotravel.org/utem/utem.html

From Washington Country, a description of the Shivwits Paiute Reservation with links to additional information about the Paiutes of Utah: http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/washington/shivwit.html

From the Council of Indian Nations a description of the Navajos: http://www.cinprograms.org/people/northern/navajo.html

From Utah History to Go , a short history of navajos in Utah: http://www.utahhistorytogo.org/navajosut.html

Shoshone-Bannock History Links: http://www.rootsweb.com/~idreserv/fhhist.html