Seven artists and members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe have created works that tell the long-buried story of the 1923 imprisonment of their tribe's members — part of the so-called 'Posey War,' considered the last confrontation between Indigenous Americans and white settlers in the Old West.
An exhibition at The Leonardo is part of the ‘healing process’ over the mass imprisonment of Ute Mountain Ute residents in 1923.
Ketchum is half Navajo and half Ute , and a direct descendant of William Posey, the Paiute elder who took a group of followers on the run in March 1923, pursued by a posse and a marshal. “There’s not many elders left home on the White Mesa community, which made it difficult to get history and facts from their point of view over the 100 years of silence and Posey War,” he said.
On March 20, 1923, the young men got in a fight with Oliver outside the school where the trial took place. Oliver, the history sheet said, “attempted to shoot one of the convicted Utes.” A group of Utes, led by Posey, fled — but not before one of the young Utes “grabbed the sherrif’s gun and returned fire, wounding the sheriff’s horse.”
The imprisoned Utes received meager rations, which “were sometimes thrown to them by residents outside the compound, as one might throw a bone to a dog,” Rogers said. Meanwhile, the posse pursued Posey and those who went with him. On Comb Ridge, according to Rogers’ history gathering, a member of the sheriff’s posse “shot and killed one of the Ute men who stood trial.”
Lakesia Lopez, a enrolled member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, speaks about her ribbon skirt and beaded vest, titled "Healed Circle," during the opening event for the "100 Years of Silence" exhibition at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Rogers said that, “as with most historical events, what happened in 1923 is quite complex. We have no simple answers. There are lots of different versions. Some of these contradict each other. History is often messy in that way, but with careful attention to all the historical evidence, and especially from stories from the youth elders, we can arrive closer to the truth.”
“As we go into the corral, we dance for those that are no longer here with us,” Morris said at the opening. “As we dance, we heal our mind, body and spirit. … I put the two together because our ancestors were never able to talk about the past, … let us dance for those that were never able to dance, that were never able to heal from the traumas that they went through.”, in her mixed-media work “Into Harmony,” said her goal “was to create something different.
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