After a storm in the headwaters of Vermilion Creek I have seen the Green a positively bright vermilion.
The Arapahos were said to range into Brown's Park; the Utes were all along the Wonsits Valley and below it on both sides of the river.

Then came the Navajos, ranging up to the San Juan and above.* On the north side, below the San Juan, were the various bands of Pai Utes, while on the south were the Puebloan tribes, with the Apaches, Suppais, Wallapais, etc., while still below came the Mohaves, Cocopas, and Yumas, with, on the Gila, the Pimas, Papagos, and Maricopas.

The 250,000 square miles of the basin were variously apportioned amongst these tribes, but their territorial claims were usually well defined.
* For notes on the distribution of tribes see the Seventh Ann.

Rep, Bu.

Ethnology; Wheeler's Report, vol.i.; Report of Lieut.