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Economic development and self determination: the Northern Ute Case

emergent native Americans; a reader in culture contact [by] Deward E. Walker, JrBostonPublished In 1971 • Pages: 678-692, 747-810

By: Lang, Gottfried O..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses socioeconomic transformations that occurred among the Ute Indians in the 1950s after the group recieved a seventeen million dollar award by the U.S. Courts of Claims. Some of this money was distributed to members in per capita payment, while a significant part of it was allocated for financing development projects that promised to benefit the whole group. The article explores how different members of Ute soceity used this money and sought to benefit from projects.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Public welfare
Research and development
Income and demand
Ingroup antagonisms
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Ute
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southwest and Basin
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Anthropologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1950-1954
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1700-1954
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Utah and Colorado, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Gottfried O. Lang
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 747-810)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
74161418
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Ute Indians