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Weinberger is currently the William and Ute Bowes Distinguished Professor of Virology, director of the Gladstone Center for Cell Circuitry, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco [8] He is the only person to ever win the NIH Director’s ...
Colorado River Numic (also called Ute / ˈ juː t / YOOT, Southern Paiute / ˈ p aɪ juː t / PIE-yoot, Ute–Southern Paiute, or Ute-Chemehuevi / ˌ tʃ ɛ m ɪ ˈ w eɪ v i / CHEH-mih-WAY-vee), of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, is a dialect chain that stretches from southeastern California to Colorado. [2]
Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844 – August 9, 1924) was a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Kiowa Apache, she was raised by the Utes in what is now Conejos, Colorado.
In the 1870s miners began to encroach on the Ute reservation and in 1873 a new agreement permitted mining in 3,700,000 acres (15,000 km 2) (5,780 square miles) of their reservation in the San Juan Mountains. Despite the prohibition in the treaty on permanent settlements on the mining land, Anglo miners and cattle ranchers rushed into the area.
The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of Mexico. The Uto-Aztecan language family is one of the largest linguistic families in the Americas in terms of number of speakers, number of languages, and geographic extension. [2]
Ute (/ ˈ j uː t / YOOT) [2] is a dialect of the Colorado River Numic language, spoken by the Ute people. Speakers primarily live on three reservations: Uintah-Ouray (or Northern Ute) in northeastern Utah, Southern Ute in southwestern Colorado , and Ute Mountain in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah . [ 3 ]
Meeker Massacre, or Meeker Incident, White River War, Ute War, or the Ute Campaign [1]), took place on September 29, 1879 in Colorado. Members of a band of Ute Indians ( Native Americans ) attacked the Indian agency on their reservation, killing the Indian agent Nathan Meeker and his 10 male employees and taking five women and children as hostages.
The Tabeguache (Ute language: Tavi'wachi Núuchi, Taveewach, Taviwach, and Taviwac), [2] or “People of Sun Mountain,” was the largest of the ten nomadic bands of the Ute and part of the Northern Ute People. [3] They lived in river valleys of the Gunnison River and Uncompahgre River [4] between the Parianuche to the north and the Weeminuche ...