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lay <br />• later years of the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods are most <br />likely the result of the Ute and Shoshoni groups who utilized the area <br />at this time. The Yampa River, at least in historic times, provided a <br />rough demarcation between the Shoshoni to the north and the Ute to the <br />south (Malouf et a1. 1974:20; Steward 1974:20, 113-114) prior to the <br />Meeker Massacre and the subsequent removal of the Utes to the Uintah <br />Reservation. At this point, the latter part of the nineteenth century, <br />the Euro-American occupation blossomed, resulting in the patterns of land <br />and resource utilization present today. <br />~~ <br /> <br />