“Despite their popular name, [Weber Utes] were Shoshones. What is evidently the Shoshone form of the name Weber Ute is given by Miller as wipayutta”

Copied from The Handbook of North American Indians, volume 11: Great Basin, pg 282-283.

Weber Ute (19).  Steward (1938: 220-221) reviews the early references to the Weber Ute and presents evidence that despite their popular name they were Shoshones, not Utes. Variant names are also listed in Hodge (1907-1910, 1:371-372), under the heading Cumumbah.  These include Weber River Yutahs and Kumumbar; the source cited for the second has the phrase “Goship or Kumumbar bands” (Doty in ARCIA 1865; 175), as if to make it a synonym of Gosiute, but this is inconsistent with the use of this name in other sources.  What is evidently the Shoshone form of the name Weber Ute is given by Miller (1972:148) as wipayutta ‘Skull Valley Gosiute’ (the easternmost band of Gosiute, nearest the Weber Ute); perhaps this is used on the Gosiute Reservation to refer indistinctly to a group or groups formerly living to the east near Great Salt Lake.

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.