Tavaputs

The Tavaputs Plateau rises along the southern edge of the Uinta Basin. The Green River cuts through its high ground in a deep canyon, passing the great escarpments of the Roan and Book Cliffs. The plateau belongs to the ancestral country of the Ute people, while earlier Fremont communities cultivated maize, beans and squash along the canyon bottoms. They stored food in granaries built high on the canyon walls, above the fields and streams below.