2002-05-13_PERMIT FILE - C1980004A

• Permit No: C1980004A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/13/2002
• Section_Exhibit Name: Appendix J Cultural Resource Inventory
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

• ADDENDUM
At the request of Sheridan Enterprises, the following changes/
additions to GRI/CRI Report No. 8022, dated October-December 1980 and
entitled "Cultural Resources Inventory, MacLane and Munger Canyons Mine
Plan Permit Areas", are made.
The section entitled Ute Culture on pp. 17-19 should be replaced
with the following paragraphs:
Ute Culture (Protohistoric/Historic
The Numic-speaking (Shoshonean) Utes are reported to have
occupied the central and western portions of Colorado at the
time of the first historic contact (Swanton 1953: 372). Fray
Pasados, a Spanish historian of the mid-1600s, described the
Utes as sharing the eastern plains of Colorado with the Apache,
while occupying the lands north of the San Juans as far north-
. west as Utah Lake as well (Buckles 1968: 55). The Spanish
expeditions of Don Juan Rivera in 1765 and Dominguez and Esca-
lante in 1775-1776 confirmed Ute occupation of western Colorado;
the latter expedition documented the Tabeguache (or Uncompahgre)
Utes in the west-central part of the state (Bolton 1972: 35).
The Tabeguache, the largest of the Ute bands, was estimated to
comprise approximately 3000-4000 people; the total population
of all Ute bands probably never exceeded 10,000 (Rockwell 1956:
12).
The precise origin of the Ute people is uncertain, but it
i~ known that Shoshonean peoples made their appearance in the
Great Basin at the end of the Fremont-Sevier-Virgin period.
Their pottery has been found in association with Fremont pottery
at several sites in Utah {Jennings 1978: 235). It is speculated
that the Shoshone-speakers either moved into the Great Basin as
the horticulturalist groups dispersed, or were such horticul-
turists who reverted to a hunting and gathering subsistence. In
any case, linguistic studies indicate the Ute arrived in south-
western Colorado around A.D. 1300 (ibid.). Evidence of their
early material culture is scant, however, and most of what we
know of the Utes comes from the period after Historic contact.
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