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The Uncompahgre Reservation (commonly called the Ouray Reservation) was created on January 5, 1882 by an executive order of President Chester A. Arthur. The two reservations were maintained by separate agencies until 1886, when the Bureau of Indian Affairs merged the administration into the Uintah and Ouray Agency at Fort Duchesne. [2]
The tribes at the reservation include the following groups: Uintah tribe, which is larger than its historical band since the U.S. government classified the following bands as Uintah when they were relocated to the reservation: The San Pitch Utes of central Utah lived in the Sanpete Valley, Sevier River Valley, and along the San Pitch River. [3] [4]
Fort Duchesne / d uː ˈ ʃ eɪ n / is a census-designated place (CDP) in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 714 at the 2010 census , an increase from the 2000 figure of 621. Fort Duchesne was originally a fort , established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912.
Mormons continued to push the Utah Utes off their homelands, [15] which escalated into the Walker War (1853–54). [43] By the mid-1870s, the U.S. federal government forced Utes in Utah onto a reservation, less than 9% of their former land. [43] The Utes found it to be very inhospitable and tried to continue hunting and gathering off the ...
The elevation of the reservation varies from about 4,600 feet (1,400 m) along the San Juan River near Four Corners to about 9,977 feet (3,041 m) at the peak of the Ute Mountain. The reservation lands consist of Sleeping Ute Mountain, the Mancos River and canyons, a high mesas and semi-desert grassland. U.S. Highways 160 and 491 and State ...
A significant portion of west Uintah County is taken up by the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. [20] The Ute Tribe's headquarters is in Fort Duchesne. Much of the rest of the county is land owned by the Ashley National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management. There is relatively little private land in the county.
Duchesne County (/ d uː ˈ ʃ eɪ n / doo-SHAYN) is a county in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 19,596. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Duchesne , [ 2 ] and the largest city is Roosevelt .
This reservation is the second-largest in the US and is located in the Uintah, Duchesne, Wasatch, Grand, Carbon, Utah and Emery counties in Utah. [10] Not all indigenous people that live in Utah live on Indian Reservations. About 46% of indigenous people in Utah live in urban Salt Lake. Many also live in Weber, Utah, and Davis counties.