Date of Award:
5-1993
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Arts (MA)
Department:
History
Committee Chair(s)
Anne M. Butler
Committee
Anne M. Butler
Committee
Clyde A. Milner II
Committee
Tom Lyon
Committee
A. J. Simmonds
Abstract
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the xii Shoshones of Cache Valley evolved from scattered pedestrian hunter-gatherers to large, armed, mounted bands that hunted and gathered from the Great Basin to the Plains. Trade with European Americans helped initiate this evolution. However, Shoshones did not respond passively to the presence of European Americans. Shoshones actively sought change, and incorporated trade goods into their culture within a Shoshone context. They adapted to each wave of European Americans that they encountered. When Mormons dispossessed them of their land, Cache Valley Shoshones resisted by going on the offensive. Finally overwhelmed, the remnants of the Cache Valley Shoshones submitted--physically but not spiritually--to European-American oversight.
Checksum
69c4a605c340683c0d8041cddfb0ced9
Recommended Citation
Heaton, John W., "The Cache Valley Shoshones: Cultural Change, Subsistence, and Resistance, to 1870" (1993). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4022.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4022
Included in
Copyright for this work is retained by the student. If you have any questions regarding the inclusion of this work in the Digital Commons, please email us at .