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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.
The museum tells the story of the Southern Ute people, [5] "Numi Nuuchiyu, We Are the Ute People", throughout prehistoric and current times. [6] Features include a life-sized buffalo hide tipi and the Circle of Life sculpture and glass ceiling. Articles on exhibit include a bear totem pole, clothing, and replicas of cave drawings.
Pepper deplored the physical labor involved in unearthing artifacts and the relations between him and Wetherill were strained. [12] Wetherill excavated the Pueblo Bonito great house and at the end of the first season sent a railroad freight car of artifacts to the American Museum. Additional excavations in Chaco canyon in 1897, 1898, and 1899 ...
The Uintah tribe (Uintah Núuchi , Yoowetum, Yoovwetuh, Uinta-at, later called Tavaputs), once a small band of the Ute people, and now is a tribe of multiple bands of Utes that were classified as Uintahs by the U.S. government when they were relocated to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. [1]
The Uncompahgre Ute (/ ˌ ʌ ŋ k ə m ˈ p ɑː ɡ r eɪ ˈ j uː t /) or ꞌAkaꞌ-páa-gharʉrʉ Núuchi (also: Ahkawa Pahgaha Nooch) is a band of the Ute, a Native American tribe located in the US states of Colorado and Utah. In the Ute language, uncompahgre means "rocks that make water red." [1] The band was formerly called the Tabeguache.
The US government tried to force the Utes to farm, despite the lack of water and unfavorable growing conditions on their reservation. Irrigation projects of the early 20th century put water in non-tribal hands. Ute children were forced to attend Indian boarding schools in the 1880s and half of the Ute children at the Albuquerque Indian School ...
During the protohistoric and historic periods, tipi rings were created in the mountains by the Ute people. Sites on the plains belonged to Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne and Comanche people. [1] Northern mountain and foothills: Indian Mountain near Boulder [1] T-W Diamond site in the Rocky Mountain foothills near Fort Collins. [1] Northeastern plains
Two Ute bands were absorbed into the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. The Pahvant band originally lived in the deserts near Sevier Lake , west of the Wasatch Mountains of western Utah . Many Pahvants were removed by the US government to the Uintah Reservation , but some joined the Kanosh, Koosharem, and other settlements in Utah.