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The Ute mythology is the mythology of the Ute people, a tribe of Native Americans from the Western United States. Ute mythology is a body of stories and beliefs that are expressive of the cultural heritage and values of the Ute people.
All Ute reservations are involved in oil and gas leases and are members of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes. [15] The Southern Ute Tribe is financially successful, having a casino for revenue generation. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe generates revenues through gas and oil, mineral sales, casinos, stock raising, and a pottery industry.
The generic name references a man-eating monster in Ute mythology. The specific name meekerorum honors the geologist John Caldwell Meeker and his family for their support of paleontological research. [1] [2] Siats is known from the holotype specimen, FMNH PR 2716, a partial postcranial skeleton housed at the Field Museum of Natural History ...
In Ute folklore, particularly among those around Utah Lake and the Provo River in Utah, Water Babies, known as Pawapicts, were believed to inhabit these waters. The Utes told stories of these spirits, often describing them as small creatures with long black hair who cried like infants and could lure or force others into the water.
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 ...
The Ojibwe version of the myth states that the thunderbirds were created by Nanabozho to fight the underwater spirits. Thunderbirds also punished humans who broke moral rules. The thunderbirds lived in the four directions and arrived with the other birds in the springtime. In the fall, they migrated south after the end of the underwater spirits ...
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.
Ute or UTE may refer to: Ute people, a Native American people of the Great Basin; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute dialect, a Colorado River Numic language spoken by the Ute