Field Trip Information Previous Lecture Next Lecture History Dept. D.C. Utes waiting for provisions at White River Agency. An early mine operation in the San Juan Mtns. The Meeker Massacre Nathan Meeker Indian School Captain Jack, another Ute leader, second from the right. Artist's rendition of the Meeker Massacre.
Humanitarianism is an idea.
Western Empire is an inexorable fact. He who gets in the way of it will be crushed. Ute cessions on the Western Slope. Here was the last defeat of the red man. Here the frontiers of the white man met, crushing the Utes in its mighty embrace.