“Weber-Utes, numbering eight hundred, living in the Salt Lake, Weber, and Ogden valleys, and in the neighborhood of the towns. They are a mixture of Utes and Shoshonees, and are represented as an idle, shiftless, and vagabond tribe, giving much trouble by petty depredations.”

Copied from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1865, pg 17, pg 144-145.

Weber-Utes, numbering eight hundred, living in the Salt Lake, Weber, and Ogden valleys, and in the neighborhood of the towns.  They are a mixture of Utes and Shoshonees, and are represented as an idle, shiftless, and vagabond tribe, giving much trouble by petty depredations.”

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The Cum-umbahs (or Weber Utes)

This is a band controlled by chiefs Amoosh, Tetich, and To-tads (Little Soldier), with two or three subchiefs.  They are mixed-bloods of the Utes and Shoshonees, and range in the region of Salt Lake, Weber, and Ogden valleys, in Northern Utah, and number about eight hundred.  They have been accustomed to lounge around the superintendency, and live by begging and pilfering from the settlers, and are the most troublesome and worthless of our Indians, apparently having no ambition to better their condition.            

The country heretofore occupied by them is now thickly settled by whites, and there being no game for them to hunt, and not being disposed to work, they require a support from the people and the government, and insist upon it, and if they do not get it, manage to make their anger felt, and exert a bad influence upon other bands of Indians.  They are the most difficult Indians we have to deal with, and will be the last to remove to Uintah and enter upon industrial pursuits.  They were represented at the Spanish Fork council with the Indians of Utah Territory, and came under the provisions of the treaty concluded on the eighth of June last; yet quite a large number of them declare their unwillingness to remove.  They will, however, I think, submit to the policy of government without the employment of force, when they find that we are in earnest in requiring it, and will not help them here, and show by actual demonstration that the Indians in the Uintah Valley have bettered their condition.

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.