Seuvarits Utes

[1] The Seuvarits and other Ute bands were eventually relocated onto reservations by the United States government after their population severely declined after exposure to disease and war during the latter half of the 19th century.

Due to this disease and the effects of war, the Seuvarits band decreased in population and eventually combined with other Native American tribes (Moanunt, San Pitch, Timpanogos, Koosharem, and others) to become known as Uintah Utes by government officials after 1873.

[2] These combined peoples were relocated to the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in Eastern Utah, where they reside to the present day.

[4] To more easily travel the broad region of the Great Basin, larger bands would break into smaller family units in order to move more quickly and efficiently.

[7] Women took on the role of trapping smaller game and gathering plant life such as amaranth, wild onion, and ricegrass native to the Great Basin.

[4][3] Prior to the introduction of the horse and contact with white settlers, Ute bands including the Seuvarits used tools made of wood and stone.

[4] During the April 1855 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, about 40 men were called to carry out the Elk Mountain Mission to the area of present-day Moab, Utah.

Their allies during the war included Timpanogos and San Pitch raiders, as well as members of the Yampa and White River bands.

[1][2] Oppositely, Paiute bands would often ally themselves with white settlers as they were considered to bring a reprieve from Ute dominion over the area.

[7] Historically, the geography of their territories did not require the Seuvarits people to use horses, and they were described as unmounted, per reports as late as the 1850s, the time of the Elk Mountain Mission.

[12] After contact with white settlers from the time of the Elk Mountain Mission and beyond, the Seuvarits began to breed and make use of horses in their lifestyle.

[12] Through United States federal intervention and involvement through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (an agency of the Department of the Interior), the remnants of the Seuvarits Ute band were relocated from their ancestral lands onto reservations.

The Seuvarits were relocated there along with various other Ute bands and tribes such as the Timpanogos, Santaquin-Goshen, Moanunt, San Pitch, Koosharem, and Piede.