Montezuma County, Colorado
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Montezuma County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,849. The county seat is Cortez.
The Montezuma County Combined Courts building in Cortez
Prehistoric petroglyphs in Mesa Verde National Park
Castle, Hovenweep National Monument
Sign on U.S. Route 491 marking the border with Dolores County
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.
Utes on horseback in the 1890s
Ute wickiup used in the western regions
Tipis painted by George Catlin who visited a number of tribes in the 1830s and recorded Native American daily life
Mural of Fathers Dominguez and Escalante, Utah State capital building