23 Facts About Ute people

Many Ute people bands were culturally influenced by neighboring Native American tribes and Puebloans, whom they traded with regularly.

Origin of the word Ute people is unknown; it is first attested as Yuta in Spanish documents.

Ute people are from the Southern subdivision of the Numic-speaking branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, which are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico.

The Ute people occupied much of the present state of Colorado by the 1600s.

Some Ute people bands stayed near their home domains, while others ranged further away seasonally.

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Old Ute people Pass Trail went eastward from Monument Creek to Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs to the Rocky Mountains.

Occasionally members of Ute people bands met up to trade, intermarry, and practice ceremonies, like the annual spring Bear Dance.

The Southern Ute people Tribes include the Muache, Capote, and the Weeminuche, the latter of which are at Ute people Mountain.

Until the Ute people acquired horses, any conflict with other tribes was usually defensive.

Ute people culture changed dramatically in ways that paralleled the Plains Indian cultures of the Great Plains.

Some Ute people bands fought against the Spanish and Pueblos with the Jicarilla Apache and the Comanche.

The Ute people were sometimes friendly but sometimes hostile to the Navajo.

Ute people traded with Europeans by the early 19th century including at encampments in the San Luis Valley, Wet Mountains, and the Upper Arkansas Valley and at the annual Rocky Mountain Rendezvous.

Wars with settlers began about the 1850s when Ute people children were captured in New Mexico and Utah by Anglo-American traders and sold in New Mexico and California.

The Ute people allied with the United States and Mexico in its war with the Navajo during the same period.

Southern Ute people are the wealthiest of the tribes and claim financial assets approaching $2 billion.

The Ute people operate KSUT, the major public radio station serving southwestern Colorado and the Four Corners.

Southern Ute people Tribes include the Muache, Capote, and the Weeminuche, the latter of which are at Ute people Mountain.

All Ute people reservations are involved in oil and gas leases and are members of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.

The Southern Ute people Tribe is financially successful, having a casino for revenue generation.

Each spring the Ute people hold their traditional Bear Dance, which was used to strengthen social ties and for courtship.

The Ute people constructed special ceremonial rattles made from buffalo rawhide, which they filled with clear quartz crystals collected from the mountains of Colorado and Utah.

Ute people pipes are thicker and use shorter pipestems than the Plains style, and more closely resemble the pipe styles of their Northern neighbors, the Shoshone.