Indian tribes in Sanpete county

This is an Ute Indian Chief

The Ute Indian tribe is located in Sanpete county. Sanpete is located around the center of Utah and is where the Utes are from. They make things out of deer hide and glass beads. Every Spring the Utes hold a traditional bear dance. The Ute tribe have a religious aversion to handling thunderwood (wood from a tree struck by lightning) and believe that the thunder beings would strike down any Ute Indian that touched or handled the thunderwood.The Ute tribe is where Utah got its name.

Sanpete got it's name from the San pitch river. San pitch Indians got their name from a leader, one Chief San pitch, who led the tribe in the late 1700s.

Trying something new

For Thanksgiving dinner I tried chicken noodle soup on my mashed potatoes.Thats what my great grandma Haffen did before she died.It tasted really good.It was packed with flavor!I tried this because my grandma ate chicken noodle soup every Thanksgiving and this year we made it again.    

Water ways

In Sanpete county the Colorado river flows into Grand county.  The Colorado river is natural not man made.  
 The San Pitch River, runs from north to south through Sanpete and empties into the Sevier River in southwestern Sanpete.  It is the San Pitch river that gave Sanpete it's name!