Just as people have done for generations, the Indigenous peoples of Utah have assigned place names to geographical landmarks and features as a means of marking their presence throughout Utah and the Intermountain West.

Jan 16, 2025 · Native Places uses GIS, digital media, historical research, and tribal consultation to create an interactive map that prioritizes the Indigenous names of geographic features and cultural sites that settler-colonialism has erased.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION. The Intermountain Region of North America is framed on the east by the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the United States and on the …

For thousands of years the Intermountain West has been the homeland for many Native American cultures, tribes, and bands. The 18th-century fur trade (northern areas), and 19th-century westward expansion of the United States brought irreversible cultural changes.

Native Places is a spatial humanities project from the American West Center. It consists of an interactive, layered map centered on Utah that encompasses the homelands of the state’s traditionally associated tribes.

The Utah Division of Indian Affairs, the University of Utah’s America West Center, and Round River Conservation Studies have created six maps in Google Earth aimed at raising public awareness around how lands in the Intermountain West were used by tribes prior to the arrival of non-native immigrants.

Oct 27, 2022 · Here, visitors can explore the Native names for places in Utah and throughout the Intermountain West, organized by linguistic group: Navajo, Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Goshute or Ute. Some of the names are descriptive, such as the Ute name Timpanoquint, or “rock river,” for the Provo River.

The Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest are those in the current states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada in the western United States, and the states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico.

Aug 20, 2024 · This page highlights the experiences and cultures of the Indigenous peoples who first settled the intermountain west and Utah. Additional titles can be found on our expanded Native Nations of Utah list or use the instructions below for help finding books in our collection.

We are most familiar with the tribes whose relationships to this land have been shared through written word and oral histories – the Ute (Noochew), Navajo (Dineh), Paiute (Nuwuvi), and Hopi (Hisatsinom). Who came first?