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I am pleased to announce that Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People will be soon available in an eBook format through Ingram Spark and Amazon.com. The book, first released in 2004, through Fulcrum Publishing, has been out of print and printed copies have been difficult to find. I was able to obtain all rights to the book in 2022, and had the book redesigned, but maintained the original text, with a few editorial changes and a new cover. I hope you’ll take the opportunity to purchase a downloadable copy of my book, Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People.
SECOND EDITION 2023
Follow this inspiring chronicle of Chipeta, a Tabeguache Ute woman born near present day Conejos, Colorado in the Summer of 1843. From her early childhood to maidenhood, and later wife to Chief Ouray, Chipeta’s story will provide readers with a glimpse of her remarkable life, including Ute customs, and traditions, before the Euro Americans made their way west. Chipeta, and Ouray, would endure the heartbreaking loss of their only son Pahlone, during a hunting trip on the eastern plains of Colorado.
Walk in Chipeta’s footsteps as she and her people faced multiple life altering challenges following numerous treaties made with the United States Government. Trial after trial, the loss of traditional homelands, and Ouray’s untimely death due to kidney disease in 1880, never deterred Chipeta from pursuing peace with the newcomers and the United States Government. From her cherished homelands to the harsh reality of life on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation, Chipeta was a compassionate woman and a tireless advocate for the poor and the hungry. Blind, forgotten by the United States government, and living in poverty on the reservation, Chipeta still forgave those who had taken so much from her people.
SEARCHING FOR CHIPETA: THE STORY OF A UTE AND HER PEOPLE
By Vickie Leigh Krudwig
ISBN: 978-0-9700127-7-7 (Ebook)
