12 When the Mountain People Came to Taos

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear
6. 1 Introduction to Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory 3
7. 2 The Shoshone Problem 11
8. 3 Considering High Altitudes within the Numic Spread 27
9. 4 Northern Ute Origins and Holding the World Together 47
10. 5 Prehistoric Villages in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming 69
11. 6 The View from Promontory Point 90
12. 7 Mountain Ute and Earliest Numic Colonization of the Southern Rocky Mountains 118
13. 8 Reconstructing a Prehistoric Ute Sacred Landscape in the Southern Rocky Mountains 151
14. 9 Ritual Places and Sacred Pathways of Ute Spiritual/ Mundane Landscapes in the Southern Colorado Rockies 171
15. 10 Insights Regarding the Dating of Ute Occupation in West Central and Northwest Colorado 193
16. 11 Ute and Navajo Cultural Interaction during the Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods 218
17. 12 When the Mountain People Came to Taos 257
18. 13 The Return of the Native 281
19. 14 An Afterword 294
20. References Cited 303
21. About the Authors 379
22. Index 383