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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.
Painted hide with geometric motifs, attributed to the Illinois Confederacy by the French, pre-1800. Collections of the Musée du quai Branly.. The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of a loosely organized group of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
Macoupin County – Miami-Illinois term for the American lotus. Macoupin Creek; Peoria County – named after the Peoria Tribe which previously lived in the area City of East Peoria; City of Peoria; City of Peoria Heights; City of West Peoria; Sangamon County – from a Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon meaning "where there is plenty to eat ...
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. Wisconsin Ho-Chunk help create only tribal reservation in Illinois for ...
Uncompahgre can refer to several different geographic features, mainly within Colorado: Places ... Uncompahgre Ute people This page was last edited on 3 ...
The tribe owns lands that total approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2) of surface land and 400,000 acres (1,600 km 2) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2) reservation area. [1] Other parts of the reservation are owned by non-Ute, as the tribe lost control of much of the land during the allotment process.
Ouray (/ ˈ jʊər eɪ /, c. 1833 – August 20, 1880) was a Native American chief of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of the Ute tribe, then located in western Colorado. Because of his leadership ability, Ouray was acknowledged by the United States government as a chief of the Ute and he traveled to Washington, D.C. to negotiate for the ...
Uncompahgre National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 955,229 acres (1,492.55 sq mi, or 3,865.68 km 2) [1] in (in descending order of land area) parts of Montrose, Mesa, San Miguel, Ouray, Gunnison, Hinsdale, San Juan, and Delta Counties in western Colorado. Its headquarters are in Delta County, in the city of Delta.