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Spring Creek Archaeological District, also known as Zabel Canyon Indian Ruins, is located in the San Juan National Forest. The site was inhabited from 300 BC through Pueblo times Ancient Pueblo People. In the protohistoric periods of southwestern Colorado the Ute, Apache and Navajo ranged and lived in the area.
The Ute Mountain Tribal Park abuts Mesa Verde National Park and includes many Ancestral Puebloan ruins. Their land includes the sacred Ute Mountain . [ 70 ] The White Mesa Community of Utah (near Blanding) is part of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe but is largely autonomous.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band [2] (Weminuche, Weemeenooch, Wiminuc, Guiguinuches) lived west of the Great Divide along the Dolores River of western Colorado, in the Abajo Mountains, in the Valley of the San Juan River its northern tributaries and in the San Juan Mountains including eastern Utah. [3]
The ruins were already known to the Ute and Navajo guides who considered them haunted and urged Huntington to stay away. [9] [35] The name Hovenweep, which means "deserted valley" in the Ute language, was adopted by pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson and William Henry Holmes in 1878. The name is apt as a description of the area's ...
Fremont, Ute: National, State: Visited by Dominguez-Escalante Expedition in 1776. 28: Canyons of the Ancients National Monument: Montezuma and Dolores counties: Paleo-Indian, Basket Makers, Ancient Pueblo: 6000 BC - AD mid- 12th century: Campsite, residential: National, State: Lowry Pueblo, Sand Canyon Pueblo and Roy's Ruin 48
The ruins are about 12 to 15 feet high, but may have been twice that height. Lower House is an L-shaped pueblo 200 feet by 180 inches with a plaza , 8 small rooms 7 × 2 feet and a large kiva Nearby were the ancient pueblo village of Mud Springs at the head of McElmo Canyon [ 5 ] and Navajo Springs, was the original site of the Ute Mountain ...
The Southern Ute Indian Reservation (Ute dialect: Kapuuta-wa Moghwachi Núuchi-u) is an Indian reservation in southwestern Colorado, United States, near the northern New Mexico state line. Its territory consists of land from three counties; in descending order of surface area they are La Plata, Archuleta, and Montezuma Counties. The reservation ...
Chimney Rock National Monument lies on 4,726 acres (19 km 2) of San Juan National Forest land surrounded by the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. [4] The Chimney Rock Archeological Area, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, consists of a central 960 acres. [5] Chimney Rock itself is approximately 315 feet (96 m) tall.