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Yanawant Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip: Volume Two Of The Arizona Strip Landscapes and Place Name Study Item Type Report Authors Austin, Diane; Dean, Erin; Gaines, Justin Publisher Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona Download date 30/09/2021 03:42:52 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290900 Yanawant Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip Volume Two OfOfOf The Arizona Strip Landscapes and Place Name Study Prepared by Diane Austin Erin Dean Justin Gaines December 12, 2005 Yanawant Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip Volume Two Of The Arizona Strip Landscapes and Place Name Study Prepared for Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip Field Office St. George, Utah Prepared by: Diane Austin Erin Dean Justin Gaines Report of work carried out under contract number #AAA000011TOAAF030023 2 Table of Contents Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………ii i Chapter One: Southern Paiute History on the Arizona Strip………………………………...1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Early Southern Paiute Contact with Europeans and Euroamericans ........................... 5 1.2 Southern Paiutes and Mormons ........................................................................................ 8 1.3 The Second Powell Expedition......................................................................................... 13 1.4 An Onslaught of Cattle and Further Mormon Expansion............................................ 16 1.5 Interactions in the First Half of the 20 th Century ......................................................... 26 Chapter Two: Southern Paiute Place Names On and Near the Arizona Strip 37 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 37 2.1 Explanation of Orthography........................................................................................... 37 2.2 What Do You Name?........................................................................................................ 38 2.3 Patterns in Paiute Place Names on the Arizona Strip .................................................. 41 2.3.1 The People/Place Connection ...................................................................................... 41 2.3.2 The Footprint of History .............................................................................................. 43 2.3.3 Frequently Used Phrases.............................................................................................. 45 2.3.4 Water Sources .............................................................................................................. 45 2.4 Southern Paiute Place Names on the Arizona Strip ...................................................... 47 References.............................................................................................................. 82 Appendix 1: Place Names in Chapter 2, Listed by English Name ................... 89 Appendix 2: Place Names for Which Locations Could Not be Verified.......... 95 i List of Tables Table 2.1. Southern Paiute Names, Locations, Meanings, and Descriptions ............................... 57 List of Figures Figure 1.1. Puaxant Tuvip: The Southern Paiute Holy Land ......................................................... 2 Figure 1.2. Southern Paiute Districts on the Arizona Strip (taken from Kelly 1934:554, revised in Fowler and Kelly 1986:369) ................................................................................................... 3 Figure 2.1. Places seen from the home of a Kaibab Paiute elder.................................................. 40 Figure 2.2. Overview of place names for the Arizona Strip ......................................................... 42 Figure 2.3 Places where a Southern Paiute name has been replaced by an English one.............. 44 Figure 2.4. Water sources on and near the Kaibab Paiute Reservation ........................................ 46 Figure 2.5. Overview of Southern Paiute place names on the Arizona Strip ............................... 48 Figure 2.6. Boundaries of named locations .................................................................................. 49 Figure 2.7. Northwest portion of Arizona Strip............................................................................ 50 Figure 2.8. Southwest portion of Arizona Strip............................................................................ 51 Figure 2.9. North central portion of Arizona Strip ....................................................................... 52 Figure 2.10. South central portion of Arizona Strip ..................................................................... 53 Figure 2.11. Eastern portion of Arizona Strip............................................................................... 54 Figure 2.12. Northeastern portion of Arizona Strip...................................................................... 55 Figure 2.13. Southeastern portion of Arizona Strip...................................................................... 56 ii Preface This report is the product of a study funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) entitled, The Arizona Strip Cultural Landscape and Place Name Study. That study had five main objectives: (1) to provide an overview of American Indian Cultural Landscapes and their relevance for federal agency practices, (2) to describe the ethnographic, historic, and cultural bases for Southern Paiute communities’ access to particular sites within the Arizona Strip, (3) to identify Numic place names, trails, and stories associated with selected cultural landscape sites within the Arizona Strip, (4) to include descriptions of the cultural significance of natural resources and physical environmental features at selected cultural landscape sites, and (5) to determine the need for future studies based on gaps identified in the historic and ethnographic record. The study is intended to serve as a foundation for identifying and managing Native American resources, cultural sites and cultural landscapes on the Arizona Strip. This report is organized in two volumes. The first volume is entitled Yanawant – Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip and presents a framework for understanding cultural landscapes and Southern Paiute relationships to places on the Arizona Strip. It draws upon direct interviews with Southern Paiutes at some of those places. This second volume, Southern Paiute History and Place Names , draws upon historical accounts, diaries, and oral histories to document Southern Paiute occupation and use of the Arizona Strip from the time of European and Euroamerican contact until the middle of the twentieth century. It also includes Paiute names for 148 places on and in the vicinity of the Arizona Strip. These names were culled from written sources, matched where possible with a current official name (recorded in the United States Geological Survey Place Names database), and translated. All names were reviewed by a team of Paiute elders in the presence of a linguist and two ethnographers. Also included are stories related to some of the named places. The stories were taken from both archival sources and oral history interviews. This second volume of the report has benefited from the contributions of many people. The authors express tremendous appreciation to Gloria Bulletts Benson of the Bureau of Land Management for her continued support and assistance throughout the study. Gloria played an active role in the design and implementation of the study and ensured its success. In addition, the study was supported by the tribal leaders of the participating tribes. It was made possible through the collaboration of tribal chairpersons, cultural resource and language program directors and their staffs, and cultural experts from the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, the Moapa Band of iii Paiutes, the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe. Special appreciation goes to Warren Mayo, Sr., Lester Asket, and Eunice Surveyor for sharing their personal oral histories. Special thanks are offered to Gevene Savala, Ilena Drye, Warren Mayo, Sr., Milton Rogers, Marilyn Jake, Vivienne Jake, Brenda Drye, Eileen Drye, and Glendora Homer for helping to review and to discuss the locations and meanings of seemingly endless lists of Paiute place names. In addition, we could not have completed this work without the linguistic expertise and patience of Dr. David Shaul. Southern Paiute elders meet with Kaibab Paiute Language Program members, linguist Dr. David Shaul, and University of Arizona ethnographers for final review of Paiute place names iv Chapter One: Southern Paiute History on the Arizona Strip Introduction Southern Paiutes occupied a large territory, referred to in Southern Paiute as Yanawant , that stretches across the Great Basin and western Colorado Plateau (see Figure 1.1). Within this area, they organized themselves into several distinct levels of political organization, including at least two major subdivisions, a dozen or more districts, and numerous local groups, sometimes referred to as “bands” (see Stoffle et al. 1994, Stoffle et al. 2000). Several researchers have attempted to classify Southern Paiute groups; some have focused on the local groups while others defined aboriginal Southern Paiute district territories. Because of the close connection