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Loose Ends: Rebuilding the bridge between cultures

MEEKER | “Where did the Indians go?” continues to be a commonly asked question from first time visitors to this area.  The White River Utes were removed to a desert reservation from their homeland in 1879 after Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and the other men working with him were killed. It was not long after troops were called to the Indian agency that the soldiers decamped from their “Camp on the White River” and…