Fremont IndiansThe Fremont Indians lived in Utah, Colorado, and the Great Basin area between 700AD and 1250AD. They were known for their unique baskets, Clay figures and gray pottery. 
They created two different kind of houses, Pithouses where they would dig a hole in the ground and cover it with a brush roof, and Wickups which where log huts with a brush roof on top of it. One of the great mysteries of this group is how they seemed to have disappeared. After around the 1300s AD their unique moccasin style seems to have vanished at around the same time the Anasazi people did. The difference between the Anasazi people and the Fremont however is that we know the Anasazi moved south, we do not know what happened to the Fremont people. Around the time they vanished there was a global climate change going on which may have caused them to move, there were also a number of tribes coming in from the east called the Shoshonean speaking people who may have kicked them out of their territory. Another theory is that the Fremont people did not simply pack up and move, but they adapted the culture of the new tribes and simply intergraded into this new society. Whatever the reason farming would die out in Northern Utah after their disappearance and it would not reappear until the arrival of the Europeans several hundred years later. Return From Fremont Indians to Utah History |