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Vol. LII January-April, 1913 No. 208 



PLACE AND PERSONAL NAMES OF THE GOSIUTE 

 INDIANS OF UTAH. 



By RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN. 

 (Read January s, 1912.) 



Tiie Gosiute Indians of Utah have for many years been peace- 

 fully settled in two main colonies in Tooele County, one in Skull 

 Valley and the other near Ibapa in the Deep Creek Valley. While 

 the Skull Valley and the Deep Creek bands were parts of one tribe 

 and had almost continual intercourse, their separation was sufficient 

 to permit certain slight dialectic differences in language to arise, as 

 the writer has elsewhere pointed out.^ They are at present without 

 any definite tribal organization and so reduced in numbers as to 

 represent a mere remnant of the former tribe. That the dwindling 

 in their numbers during the last half century has been excessive 

 appears evident from the figures given in various early reports and 

 the information obtamed from the first white settlers of the region ; 

 and at the present time, in the two bands there are under two hun- 

 dred souls, of whom, furthermore, a considerable number have been 

 taken in from other tribes through marriage or otherwise. The old 

 men weep at the doom of extinction which they believe plainly to 

 see ahead of their people. 



^ " Animal Names and Anatomical Terms of the Gosiute Indians." Proc. 

 Acad. Sci. Phil., 1908, p. 75. 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, LH. 2o8 A, PRINTED MAY I9, I9I3. 



