| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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A History of Utah's American Indians. Edited by Forrest S. Cuch. (Salt Lake City: Utah State Division of Indian Affairs, Utah State Division of History, 2000. xx + 394 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

As Utah prepared to commemorate its statehood centennial in 1996 and sesquicentennial of Mormon settlement in 1997, the state legislature authorized several projects, including publication of a four-volume comprehensive history of Utah, and of a twenty-nine volume county history series. Utah's Native American leaders petitioned for funding for an additional publication detailing their important place in that history. This volume is the welcome result. 1

The editor, Forrest Cuch, also serves as director of Utah's Division of Indian Affairs. As a Ute Indian raised on Utah's Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Cuch was committed to presenting tribal history from the perspective of an insider. He declared: "The time has passed for non-Indian people to speak for us about 'our past,' about 'our history.' It is now time for us to bring forth the truth as we know it to be, and share it with others" (p. xi). . . .

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