EARLY DAYS
The territories that makeup Utah today were first home to Shoshonean-speaking tribes. These tribes, made up predominantly of the Ute, Paiutes, and Shoshones, encountered great difficulties in cultivating the scarcities of the Utah landscape, with the climate of the land being fairly arid and the resources there insufficient to sustain them. This toil of the initial inhabitants, and their eventual harmony with its nature, is emblematic both of Utah history and its future peoples.