Utah Candidates for Governor
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Utah Candidates for Governor |
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Utah Governor Candidates
Utah Governor Candidates Filing Deadlines:
All Parties: March 2012
Nominating Conventions: May 2012
Primary: June 26, 2012
District 1:
Rob Bishop (R)
District 2:
Jim Matheson (D)
Chuck Williams (R)
Morgan Philpot (R)
District 3:
Jason Chaffetz (R)
Kurt Bradburn (R)
Mia Love (R)
District 4: New District/No Incumbent
Carl Wimmer (R)
Governor Candidates for Election Race
Long before Euro-Americans entered the Great Basin, substantial numbers of people lived within the present boundaries of Utah. Archaeological reconstructions suggest human habitation stretching back some 12,000 years. The earliest known inhabitants were members of what has been termed the Desert Archaic Culture--nomadic hunter-gatherers with developed basketry, flaked-stem stone tools, and implements of wood and bone. They inhabited the region between 10,000 B.C. and A.D. 400. These peoples moved in extended family units, hunting small game and gathering the periodically abundant seeds and roots in a slightly more cool and moist Great Basin environment.
It is generally agreed that the Navajos, the largest Indian tribe in the United States, came into the Southwest sometime after A.D. 1300, even though the Dine' ("the People") themselves do not attest to this. The Dine' mention their strong relationship to their Anasazi, the Ancient Ones, in their mythology and ceremonies. This relationship justifies to them permanent ties and absolute use-fights to the native land that is bounded by four sacred mountains: the Blanca Peaks in New Mexico on the east, Mount Taylor in New Mexico on the south, the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona on the west, and the Hesperus Peaks in Colorado on the north. The Navajos live "in severely eroded plateau country . . .colorful, beautiful to look at, but hard to make a living from."
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