Charlie Mack, of Whiterocks, says Ute name for Ogden people meant "talking different"

Copied from The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, pg 868, 914.

Neighbors (Charlie Mack, Uintah)

q’ömąw?aiyaröm’ (used to live about Ogden and to be called by Whites wḯbo [171] = ‘talking different.’ C.M.’s mother was of this tribe, but father was regular Uintah Ute. Weaver Ute Indians (= Weber County): used to talk dialect like Western Shoshone, not Eastern Wyoming Shoshone.

171. This is undoubtedly from “Weber,” as in Weber County in north-central Utah. This particular group, known popularly as “Weber Utes,” was Shoshone-speaking, as Sapir correctly notes.

[Note: Charlie Mack was linguist Edward Sapir’s informant at Whiterocks, while Sapir worked on the Uintah dialect of the Ute language. He also recorded seven Uintah tales from Charlie Mack.]

Documenting the Weber Utes

Charlie Mack, of Whiterocks, says Ute name for Ogden people meant “talking different”

A collection of documents, excerpts, and photographs relevant to the so-called Weber Ute people of Northern Utah. Not a complete history — research aid only.