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.