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
Ute are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. They had lived in sovereignty in the regions of present-day Utah and Colorado.
Chief Severo and family, c. 1899
Henry Chapman Ford, Ute camp, by 1894
Cañon Pintado, south of Rangely in Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Ute petroglyphs at Arches National Park