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The Uncompahgre Reservation (commonly called the Ouray Reservation) was created on January 5, 1882 by an executive order of President Chester A. Arthur. The two reservations were maintained by separate agencies until 1886, when the Bureau of Indian Affairs merged the administration into the Uintah and Ouray Agency at Fort Duchesne. [2]
The Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation is the second-largest Indian Reservation in the US – covering over 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of land. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] Tribal owned lands only cover approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2 ) of surface land and 40,000 acres (160 km 2 ) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2 ...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes ... Uintah and Ouray Reservation: Utah: 24,369: 6,774.15 (17,544.96) 50 ...
By 1933, 91 percent of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation had been allotted. In other cases, as with the Yakama Nation, states acquired parcels when reservation boundaries were redrawn.
The community is located primarily on the north bank of the confluence of the Duchesne and Green rivers at an elevation of 4,675 feet (1,425 m). [1] ( The confluence of the Green and White rivers is approximately 1.5 miles [2.4 km] further south.) [2] Ouray is situated within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation at the southern terminus of State Route 88, about 26.5 miles (42.6 km) south ...
Ute Indian Tribe of Uintah and Ouray Reservation. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. “More recently, as miners or settlers or other explorers came through the region, they were using the exact same ...
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]
Other proponents include oil businesses and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation. They have argued that the railroad would be a boon to struggling local economies and boost ...