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Show Junior Red Cross Begins Work On Ute Indian Book Mrs. Evelyn Woods, director of the Salt Lake Chapter of the Junior Red Cross, and Mrs. Alta Miller, intermediate "school "supervisor "su-pervisor 'of the Jordan School district, and a member of the Salt Lake County Junior Red Cross committee, arrived last Sunday night to spend a week at the Whiterocks Indian school. While at Whiterocks they will assemble information on Ute Indian In-dian history for a community history book to be published and distributed in all Utah schools. The proposed book will be a fourth in a series of community school publications, and the material ma-terial covering the Ute tribe will be written by the Whiterocks students who will base their work upon stories related by Chief Tecumsea, Rex Curry, Henry Wapsock, and other prominent prom-inent members of the Ute tribe. Three community history books have already been compiled. com-piled. In the immediate future they will be published for distribution dis-tribution in Utah schools to become be-come a part of regular grade curriculum. Later all of the books including the Ute history, will be made available for public distribution through the State Department of Public Instruction. Instruc-tion. Compilation of the material for the first three books has been sponsored by the Department of Public Instruction. Noting the absence of a history of the Ut.es, the Junior Red Cross agreed to sponsor the research work now going on at Whiterocks. |