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2002

Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Utah State University

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Termination’S Legacy: The Discarded Indians Of Utah, H. Bert Jenson Oct 2002

Termination’S Legacy: The Discarded Indians Of Utah, H. Bert Jenson

English Faculty Publications

STARTING IN 1954 the Federal Government terminated onehundred plus Indian tribe across the Unit d States. All have subsequently been reinstated, that is, with one exception: the so called mixed-blood Utes in the Uintah Basin of Northeastern Utah. It is this still disenfranchised group of people that form the stimulus driving R. Warren Metcalf's book Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. It is about these people that he writes; it is their cause he champion.

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