Show UTES LUTTES ONCE PO POWERFUL ERFUL FAMOUS INDIAN TRIBE FAST BE COMING EXTINCT something about red men who R re bently left their reservation marriage customs of the race washington whether he band of ute indians indiana who were bi ought to a halt recently after trailing some borne miles diagonally across the state of wyoming were itally out on oil the war path or merely jil lug ing truant bibro baerns i to be open to question indian coin missioner miss aloner loner leu leupp believes bel levea they ft ere only out NI Stil biting ting the episode serves serve a at any rate tu to draw public at mentton not only to the history and of an intel ahting tilbe but to thy the infrequency with which our redskin red skinned nd waida figure tn in the days news two decades ago such a peir par firmance for Hiance mance as this of the lutcs would mould have passed all but unnoticed the ute or utah indians form a dl 61 vision of the Shob honcan famiie for merly occupying the region which ex el tends lends filin the halt balt lale basin in utah eastward atward ea to t the highest ridges of tile Coloia colliado do brockles Ilo ckles when in the eidly eat ly days of the last century american hunters and plo first c ime cime in contact with then them tile the utes a powerful nation of sonie some souls soula hy by the 1841 however han ahen lohn C fromont made ills his alist pith finding expedition arloss the brockles Ilo ckles they had been reduced through constant warfare with the and the Co manches to something woe like pei Eions more amalgamation with neighbor ing tribes and disease continued to deplete their numbers fearfully in 1881 they numbered but 4 and in ili 1901 when the liba enumeration was I 1 attempted vere mere scarcely more than 2 of them the utes atea have never been known either for their docility or their tract ability and whenever they have conic come into close proximity pro to the palefaces there has been double the ute nation cou biRts of oe 15 direct tribes but for miny deais tt it has been dI divided vIdel into chive greiter greated divisions of these the Sou thein utes have retained their residence e in colorado while the branches known as the white river utes and their kinsmen the have baie lived since 1880 on the i enervation in utah the very interesting customs and laws of the utes however are common to all three divisions there 9 A certain appropriateness in ili their ir ill living ing in utah from the fact thit a sig n practice of the he peo pie is polygamy time was when it was deiy much commoner thau it is to today day but that was when warfare kept the number of brakes down and the women outnumbered the men by more than three thre to one the men marry at 18 tile the women at 13 to 36 16 and it if a ute squaw remains unmarried at 20 she Is treated as a pailalo and blands a very good chance of being put to death as a witch before bhe is 49 40 ute marriage custori a are peculiar A hen a young alil gil I 1 I 1 am irrl ig able age her parents shut her up lip in the iho tepee whom she la is compelled to fast for four or live itaas at the end of that hat time invitations are sent nent to the fi lends friends of tho the far family tilly who gather about the teppe where vicy they are feast ed cd and then all men and women mile in a wend dace shah ing blowing on reed pipes and singing incantations the garcias par fugn and to feo frequently to tho door and bid th thmia pin di disperse A coin f A byl I 1 41 u A ute indian chief conly practiced procedure proc eduie Is to place pace he be maiden on a muth couth of houghs boughs over heated stones upon these atones Is poured and the victim is 13 alleri a thoi thorough ough steaming after th that tt she la Is led to the rivet for a plunge and la Is then considered worthy of a husband the courting time is ordin illy dur ing the of the utes ulos gre greit great it est crop the mesquite beau bean the young man inan tile the father of the maiden humbly and asks the hano hand of the daughter ahe I 1 he father simu simulates latell rage and ardt i s him away the obeys but bitt i etui us shortly decked out in his gaudiest Ran gau diest feat feathers berb bradi and paint it always happens that the maiden Is alone hei cupon they be come acquainted and then it if she ehe li ii favorable to his quest thy they go for a long walk or ilde together toge in the m oo 00 Is ahen hen they they are considered mantled they at on C e be gin housekeeping in the home of tile the b tildes I 1 ide s mathei ahei e they remain un tin til the child Is born the young trave brave then sets up his own tepee |