Many Ute bands were culturally influenced by neighboring Native American tribes and Puebloans, whom they traded with regularly.
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Many Ute bands were culturally influenced by neighboring Native American tribes and Puebloans, whom they traded with regularly.
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Origin of the word Ute Tribe is unknown; it is first attested as Yuta in Spanish documents.
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Ute Tribe 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.
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The Ute Tribe occupied much of the present state of Colorado by the 1600s.
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Some Ute Tribe bands stayed near their home domains, while others ranged further away seasonally.
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Old Ute Tribe Pass Trail went eastward from Monument Creek to Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs to the Rocky Mountains.
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Ute Tribe appeared to have hunted and camped in an ancient Ancestral Puebloans and Fremont people campsite in near what is Arches National Park.
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Occasionally members of Ute Tribe bands met up to trade, intermarry, and practice ceremonies, like the annual spring Bear Dance.
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Until the Ute acquired horses, any conflict with other tribes was usually defensive.
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Ute Tribe culture changed dramatically in ways that paralleled the Plains Indian cultures of the Great Plains.
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The Ute Tribe were sometimes friendly but sometimes hostile to the Navajo.
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Wars with settlers began about the 1850s when Ute Tribe children were captured in New Mexico and Utah by Anglo-American traders and sold in New Mexico and California.
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The Ute Tribe allied with the United States and Mexico in its war with the Navajo during the same period.
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Southern Ute are the wealthiest of the tribes and claim financial assets approaching $2 billion.
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The Ute Tribe operate KSUT, the major public radio station serving southwestern Colorado and the Four Corners.
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All Ute reservations are involved in oil and gas leases and are members of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.
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The Southern Ute Tribe is financially successful, having a casino for revenue generation.
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe generates revenues through gas and oil, mineral sales, casinos, stock raising, and a pottery industry.
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Each spring the Ute Tribe hold their traditional Bear Dance, which was used to strengthen social ties and for courtship.
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Ute Tribe pipes are thicker and use shorter pipestems than the Plains style, and more closely resemble the pipe styles of their Northern neighbors, the Shoshone.
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