"The Utes must go!"
Subtitle: American expansion and the removal of a people
By: Peter R. Decker.
Publisher: Fulcrum Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: United States. -- Office of Indian Affairs. -- White River Agency (Colo.) -- History; White River Massacre, Colo., 1879; Ute Indians -- Wars, 1879; Ute Indians -- Relocation -- Colorado -- Ute Indian Reservation; Ute Indian Reservation (Colo.) -- History
Description: "Tracing three centuries of Ute Indian history, "The Utes Must Go!" chronicles the policies and incidents that led to the involuntary removal of the Ute Indians from Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Historian Peter Decker unveils new critical information on figures such as Colorado Governor Frederick Pitkin, General William T. Sherman, Interior Secretary Carl Schurz, famed newspaperman Horace Greeley, and Indian Agent Nathan Meeker whose relentless mission to turn Indian hunters into farmers led to the tragedy at Milk Creek in 1879. Decker's research brings to light the complete drama of a proud Indian people swept away by the nineteenth-century tide of pioneer settlement, racism, and greed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Spanish neighbors to an American reservation; title: "Conquer by kindness"; title: "Father Meeker"; title: "They deserve a lesson"; title: A battle and a massacre; title: A peace and removal; title: Removal.