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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 .
Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum is a historic, cultural, and educational museum about the Southern Ute people in Ignacio, Colorado. [3] The museum, surrounded by gardens, was built by Southern Ute tribe members in 2011, many of whom donated or loaned artifacts for the museum.
Prior to the 1850s, the Paiute people lived relatively peacefully with the other Native American groups. These groups included the Navajo, Ute, and Hopi peoples. [6] Though there was the occasional tension and violent outbreaks between groups, the Paiute were mainly able to live in peace with other tribes and settlers due to their loose social structure.
The Gathering of Nations is the largest pow-wow in the United States and North America. [3] It is held annually on the fourth weekend in April, on the Powwow Grounds at Expo NM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 565 tribes from around the United States and 220 from Canada travel to Albuquerque to participate.
Ute Mountain, of the Sleeping Ute Mountain range Map of Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute and Navajo reservations in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 established an official boundary line between Spanish and United States possessions in the southwest. Spanish territory included the southern plains, a ...
Matthew James Box (born 1968) is the former chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in southwestern Colorado, USA.He was elected in 2008 for a three-year term and assumed the chairmanship on 21 December 2008. [1]
The eastern part of the reservation officially became the Southern Ute Indian Reservation and was divided up amongst Muache and Capote tribal members in 80- and 160-acre parcels. [ 1 ] Sapiah met five [ 15 ] or seven United States presidents in Washington, D.C. , including Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893) and, with his son Antonio, Theodore ...
The Ute Wars were a series of conflicts between the Ute people and the United States which began in 1849 and ended in 1923. [1] [2] Wars. Jicarilla War (1849–1855)