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Navajo Peak, as seen from the top of Pawnee Peak. The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a 73,931 acre wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Colorado whose names are derived from Native American languages. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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 ...
In 2011, CSU created the Native American Legacy Award to provide in-state tuition to qualified out-of-state Native students. Since its inception in 2011, NALA has benefitted more than 400 CSU ...
Stephen Harriman Long wrote of his 1820s travel through the Pikes Peak region that Ute Trail was used by bison and Native Americans. For the Utes , the trail and pass was used to transport salt from Bayou Salade, the salt valley of South Park, to Santa Fe and Taos for trade. [ 5 ]
Distribution of Native Americans by county. The following is a list of United States counties in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Native American (American Indian or Alaska Native), according to data from the 2020 Census. [1] There are 33 counties in 11 states with Native American majority populations.
The area currently occupied by the U.S. State of Colorado has undergone numerous changes in occupancy, territorial claims, and political designations. Paleoamericans entered the region about 11,500 BCE, [1] although new research indicates the region may have been visited much earlier. [2] At least nine Native American nations have
Indian reservations in the U.S. state of Colorado. Pages in category "American Indian reservations in Colorado" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.