The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.
History
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Two thousand years ago, the Utes lived and ranged in the mountains and desert over much of the Colorado Plateau: much of present day eastern Utah, western Colorado, northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The use of lands in the Four Corners area, where the Ute Mountain Ute tribe now live, though, came later. Most anthropologists agree that Utes were established in the Four Corners area by 1500 C.E. The Ute people were hunters and gatherers who moved on foot to hunting grounds and gathering land based upon the season. The men hunted animals, including deer, antelope, buffalo, rabbits, and other small mammals and birds. Women gathered grasses, nuts, berries, roots, and greens in woven baskets; They also processed and stored meat and plant materials for winter use. Ute in the western part of their territory lived in wickiups and ramadas; Hide tipis were used in the eastern reaches of their territory.
The Ute Tribe is suing the federal government over land that stretches across parts of Colorado and Utah known as the Uncompahgre.
published: 19 Aug 2019
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
Do you know who lived on the land of Oak Park before the Kettlestrings? Miss Juanta has a land acknowledgement to share, and then her friend Patsy Lucius has wonderful stories and facts to share about her culture, the Ute Mountain Ute tribe of present day Utah and Colorado.
Watch this video about the Bear Dance to see shawls and gloves in action: https://youtu.be/LAHwsjXfank
Learn more about the Multicultural Collection: https://www.oppl.org/multicultural
published: 09 Oct 2020
Colorado Experience: The Original Coloradans
Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for the Ute nation. Discover how the Utes' legacy continues to impact Colorado today.
published: 14 Jun 2013
Northern Ute Teens on Racism and Media
Project 562 asks group of teenagers at Northern Ute Bear Dance if stereotypes and racism affect their lives.
published: 27 Jun 2016
A Visit to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
published: 16 Sep 2011
Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constraints, and locked gates of Mesa Verde National Park, and explore one of the Southwest's best hidden secrets. Spend the night in a glamping tent and dine under the stars at Scullbinder Ranch, a private 35-acre oasis on the Mancos River that borders the Tribal Park. Then spend 3 days bikepacking through the park, camping in its empty canyons, and, in general, seeing no people except those cyclists with whom you ride. Visit cliff dwellings, discover pottery (that you must leave behind!), and learn from Native American guides about the ancient people who preceded them. Read more about why this place is so special in a blog post by one of...
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Preservation Office works to preserve and raise awareness about Ute Mountain Ute resources and heritage around Colorado and the region.
Do you know who lived on the land of Oak Park before the Kettlestrings? Miss Juanta has a land acknowledgement to share, and then her friend Patsy Lucius has wo...
Do you know who lived on the land of Oak Park before the Kettlestrings? Miss Juanta has a land acknowledgement to share, and then her friend Patsy Lucius has wonderful stories and facts to share about her culture, the Ute Mountain Ute tribe of present day Utah and Colorado.
Watch this video about the Bear Dance to see shawls and gloves in action: https://youtu.be/LAHwsjXfank
Learn more about the Multicultural Collection: https://www.oppl.org/multicultural
Do you know who lived on the land of Oak Park before the Kettlestrings? Miss Juanta has a land acknowledgement to share, and then her friend Patsy Lucius has wonderful stories and facts to share about her culture, the Ute Mountain Ute tribe of present day Utah and Colorado.
Watch this video about the Bear Dance to see shawls and gloves in action: https://youtu.be/LAHwsjXfank
Learn more about the Multicultural Collection: https://www.oppl.org/multicultural
Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early...
Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for the Ute nation. Discover how the Utes' legacy continues to impact Colorado today.
Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for the Ute nation. Discover how the Utes' legacy continues to impact Colorado today.
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily vi...
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constra...
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constraints, and locked gates of Mesa Verde National Park, and explore one of the Southwest's best hidden secrets. Spend the night in a glamping tent and dine under the stars at Scullbinder Ranch, a private 35-acre oasis on the Mancos River that borders the Tribal Park. Then spend 3 days bikepacking through the park, camping in its empty canyons, and, in general, seeing no people except those cyclists with whom you ride. Visit cliff dwellings, discover pottery (that you must leave behind!), and learn from Native American guides about the ancient people who preceded them. Read more about why this place is so special in a blog post by one of our first guests, "There Are Still Blank Spots on the Map" -- https://fourcornersguides.com/ute-mountain-ute-tribal-park-bikepacking-tour-story/
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constraints, and locked gates of Mesa Verde National Park, and explore one of the Southwest's best hidden secrets. Spend the night in a glamping tent and dine under the stars at Scullbinder Ranch, a private 35-acre oasis on the Mancos River that borders the Tribal Park. Then spend 3 days bikepacking through the park, camping in its empty canyons, and, in general, seeing no people except those cyclists with whom you ride. Visit cliff dwellings, discover pottery (that you must leave behind!), and learn from Native American guides about the ancient people who preceded them. Read more about why this place is so special in a blog post by one of our first guests, "There Are Still Blank Spots on the Map" -- https://fourcornersguides.com/ute-mountain-ute-tribal-park-bikepacking-tour-story/
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Preservation Office works to preserve and raise awareness about Ute Mountain Ute resources and heritage around Colorado and...
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Preservation Office works to preserve and raise awareness about Ute Mountain Ute resources and heritage around Colorado and the region.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Preservation Office works to preserve and raise awareness about Ute Mountain Ute resources and heritage around Colorado and the region.
Do you know who lived on the land of Oak Park before the Kettlestrings? Miss Juanta has a land acknowledgement to share, and then her friend Patsy Lucius has wonderful stories and facts to share about her culture, the Ute Mountain Ute tribe of present day Utah and Colorado.
Watch this video about the Bear Dance to see shawls and gloves in action: https://youtu.be/LAHwsjXfank
Learn more about the Multicultural Collection: https://www.oppl.org/multicultural
Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for the Ute nation. Discover how the Utes' legacy continues to impact Colorado today.
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constraints, and locked gates of Mesa Verde National Park, and explore one of the Southwest's best hidden secrets. Spend the night in a glamping tent and dine under the stars at Scullbinder Ranch, a private 35-acre oasis on the Mancos River that borders the Tribal Park. Then spend 3 days bikepacking through the park, camping in its empty canyons, and, in general, seeing no people except those cyclists with whom you ride. Visit cliff dwellings, discover pottery (that you must leave behind!), and learn from Native American guides about the ancient people who preceded them. Read more about why this place is so special in a blog post by one of our first guests, "There Are Still Blank Spots on the Map" -- https://fourcornersguides.com/ute-mountain-ute-tribal-park-bikepacking-tour-story/
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Preservation Office works to preserve and raise awareness about Ute Mountain Ute resources and heritage around Colorado and the region.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.
History
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Two thousand years ago, the Utes lived and ranged in the mountains and desert over much of the Colorado Plateau: much of present day eastern Utah, western Colorado, northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The use of lands in the Four Corners area, where the Ute Mountain Ute tribe now live, though, came later. Most anthropologists agree that Utes were established in the Four Corners area by 1500 C.E. The Ute people were hunters and gatherers who moved on foot to hunting grounds and gathering land based upon the season. The men hunted animals, including deer, antelope, buffalo, rabbits, and other small mammals and birds. Women gathered grasses, nuts, berries, roots, and greens in woven baskets; They also processed and stored meat and plant materials for winter use. Ute in the western part of their territory lived in wickiups and ramadas; Hide tipis were used in the eastern reaches of their territory.
RockyMountain Industrials (RMI) was ordered to stop mining by the U.S ...The Department of Interior cited concerns from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation ... Local ... .
11, Hight allegedly fired a rifle 24 times into a home, killing a 7-year-old child of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation ...
Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old boy on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation earlier this month. JeremiahHigh, a member of the Ute ...
A 27-year-old man from New Mexico has been sentenced to 166 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release after shooting a man on Ute Mountain Ute reservation. Lovell Cassius Benallie... .
11 shooting at a home in Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation ... It said an arrest warrant was issued for Hight, a member of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, on Thursday after he was charged with ...