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This depends on who was referring to it. Officially, it was Mexico. The Navajo, Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute, and Ute tribes that lived there all had their own names for it. The first white settlers, Mormon Pioneers, called it Deseret. Once it became a U.S. Territory, it was named Utah.

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