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  Introduction to the Ute Tribal History
Ruins of the ancient culture of the Anasazi are to be found throughout the present reservation of the Southern Utes.
The language of the Utes is Shoshonean which is a branch or a dialect of the Uto-Aztecan language.
And with the horse, the Utes could more easily evade their enemies, transport their goods to a central camp where the women and children were protected, and range farther to hunt for food.
www.southern-ute.nsn.us /history/intro.html   (1189 words)

  
  People of the Colorado Plateau-The Ute Indians
The Ute Mountain Ute are descendants of the Weminuche band who moved to the western end of the Southern Ute Reservation in 1897.
Ute families lived in brush wickiups and ramadas in the western and southern areas and used hide tepees in the eastern reaches of their territory.
By 1934, the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado consisted of a strip of arid, desolate land 15 miles wide and 110 miles long.
www.cpluhna.nau.edu /People/ute_indians.htm   (904 words)

  
  Southern Ute Language Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The native Ute language belongs to the Uto-Aztecan (Shoshone) family of languages and is a dialect of Southern Numic.
The subsequent increase in mobility made possible by the horses was instrumental in changing aspects of Ute society in ways that paralleled the Plains Indian cultures of the Central U.S. This social upheaval resulted in various degrees of consolidation, political realignment and tension between the various Ute groups.
Ute families lived in brush wickiups and ramadas in the western and southern areas and used hide tepees in the eastern reaches of their territory.
www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Southern_Ute_language   (1632 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Southern Utah became a popular filming spot for arid, rugged scenes, and such natural landmarks as Delicate Arch and "the Mittens" of Monument Valley are instantly recognizable to most national residents.
The fastest-growing areas have been Utah County, western and southern Salt Lake County, eastern Tooele County, northern Davis County, northern Utah County, Summit County, and Iron and Washington counties in Southern Utah.
Spring is the wettest season across the north while late summer and early fall are the wettest times in the south and winter is the wettest season in most of the mountain areas.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Utah   (9702 words)

  
 United States v. Southern Ute Tribe, 402 U.S. 159, 91 S.Ct. 1336, 28 L.Ed.2d 695 (1971)
Although the acreage was undivided, the White River Utes lived in the northern portion of the reservation, the Uncompahgre Utes inhabited the central part, and the Southern Utes occupied the southern region.
The Southern Utes were apportioned a one-third share and like their confederates understood that such monies would be held by defendant in trust for their benefit.' 423 F.2d, at 350, 191 Ct.Cl., at 10 (1970) (emphasis in original).
The Court of Claims found proof that 'the Interior Department at least was already viewing the Southern Ute territory as a permanent reservation not ceded under the terms of the 1880 cession,' 423 F.2d, at 352, 191 Ct.Cl., at 13, in a description of the line in an 1882 letter to the district land offices.
www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/US_v_Southern_Ute_402_159.htm   (5662 words)

  
 Southern Utes
And many Southern Utes are uneasy and resentful about how the tribe's wealth is distributed, a topic that inspires shouting matches at tribal meetings and requests for orders of protection.
The Southern Ute land was too arid for farming, but "the government didn't know there was gold in them thar hills," says Burch, 69.
The Southern Utes also hired engineers to assess how much fuel companies were drawing from existing leases and to ensure the tribe was being paid in full.
www.mrdeeteacher.com /southern_ute_text.html   (1376 words)

  
 Colorado Central Magazine August 1995 Page 23
Concerned that the Ute language was in danger of dying, the Southern Ute Tribal Council authorized the Ute Language Program in 1975.
However, Southern Ute spelling is "in some sense" easier than English because it is "unambiguous and clear to the extreme," even if it relies heavily on diacritical marks -- those little hats, hooks, and accent marks borne by some letters.
Ute belongs to the Shoshone branch of Uto-Aztecan with plenty of kissin' cousins.
www.cozine.com /archive/cc1995/00180239.html   (2405 words)

  
 Utah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salt Lake City, the ski resorts in the Wasatch Range, and the national parks of the south are the most popular destinations.
The name Utah is from the Southern Ute language and means "higher up." The Paiute, Navajo, and Goshute nations also inhabit portions of the state.
Much of the scenic southern landscape is sandstone, more specifically Kayenta sandstone and Navajo sandstone.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utah   (3209 words)

  
 No. 98-830: Amoco Production v. Southern Ute Tribe - Opposition
Southern Ute Tribe, 402 U.S. The ceded territory included lands that President Roosevelt later withdrew from entry and that Congress made available for patenting under the 1909 and 1910 Acts.
As a result of that restoration, the Southern Ute Indian now has equitable title to tribal lands within its Reservation and the coal estate beneath lands within the Reservation that were settled by non-Indians under the 1909 and 1910 Acts.
As this Court recently stated, "[t]he plainness or ambiguity of statutory language is determined by reference to the language itself, the specific context in which the language is used, and the broader context of the statute as a whole." Robinson v.
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1998/0responses/98-0830.resp.opp.html   (7215 words)

  
 Southern Ute language Definition / Southern Ute language Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Ute, a tribeViewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states.
Ute reservations are located in eastern UtahUtah is a western state of the United States, in the Rocky Mountains region.
Ute (pronounced as oot-e), the Queen Mother of the King of Worms in the NibelungenliedThe Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German that takes Burgundian kings as its subject matter.
www.elresearch.com /Southern_Ute_language   (673 words)

  
 No. 98-830: Amoco Production Co. v. Southern Ute Indian Tribe - Merits
Southern Ute Tribe, 402 U.S. The ceded territory included lands that President Roosevelt later withdrew from entry and that Congress made available for surface patenting under the 1909 and 1910 Acts.
In accordance with this Court's guidance, the court carefully evaluated the language of those statutes, the specific context in which the language was used, and the broader context of the Acts as a whole.
Petitioners and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe each claim a right to the coal bed methane found in the coal deposits that Congress reserved through the Coal Lands Acts of 1909 and 1910 and later conveyed to the Tribe.
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1998/3mer/2mer/98-0830.mer.aa.html   (12862 words)

  
 The Cellar - View Single Post - Terrorist foiled on Southern Ute Reservation
A few members of the Ute tribe may have gone down to NM to participate, but it was not something that would draw tourists to the Ute reservation.
I was on the Ute reservation quite unwillingly, along with all the other drivers who had been routed off the main road by the accident.
The towns on the Ute reservation are run down and one is hit by the sense of despair and futility which seem to have taken permanent root there.
cellar.org /showpost.php?s=9f66b4bb589e821ccca9d2fe9fdc8190&p=122276&postcount=8   (523 words)

  
 ute language
Southern Paiute and Ute : linguistics and ethnography.
the tribal populations converse in the Ute language.
The language of the Utes is Shoshonean which is a branch or a dialect of the Uto-Aztecan Language.
www.logoi.com /links/nativeamericans/ute_language.html   (1659 words)

  
 Ute Definition / Ute Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Ute, a tribe of Native AmericansNative Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants.
Classic Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and its modern descendants are part of the Uto-Aztecan family....
Ute (pronounced as oot-e), the Queen Mother of the King of Worms in the Nibelungenlied.
www.elresearch.com /Ute   (486 words)

  
 Ute on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By a treaty signed in 1880 the Ute were moved from rich mineral and agricultural lands to areas less desirable to white settlers.
Today, although some Ute own land individually, most live on reservations in Colorado and Utah; their income is derived largely from oil and gas leases, farming, and raising livestock.
Ute culture was typical of the western part of the Plains culture area (see under Natives, North American); they lived in tepees, which were frequently decorated with brilliantly colored paintings, or in brush or sod shelters.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Ute.asp   (839 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:ute
Ute in southwestern Colorado and southeastern and northeastern Utah; Southern Paiute in southwestern Utah, northern Arizona, and southern Nevada; Chemehuevi on lower Colorado River, California.
Literacy rate in second language: 75% to 100%.
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ute   (89 words)

  
 AMOCO PRODUCTION CO. V. SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE
30 U.S.C. Among the lands patented to settlers under the 1909 and 1910 Acts were former reservation lands of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, which the Tribe had ceded to the United States in 1880 in return for certain allotted lands provided for their settlement.
Southern Pacific R. Co., 234 U.S., 679 (1914) (rejecting “scientific test” for determining whether a reservation of “mineral lands” included “petroleum lands”); see also Perrin v.
Respondents contend that Congress did not reserve the solid coal but convey the CBM gas because the resulting split estate would be impractical and would make mining the coal difficult because the miners would have to capture and preserve the CBM gas that escaped during mining.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/98-830.ZO.html   (3832 words)

  
 94-1579 -- Southern Ute Indian Tribe v. Amoco Production Co. -- 07/20/1998
The Southern Ute Indian Tribe (the Tribe) appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants Amoco Production Company and others on the Tribe's claim to ownership of coal bed methane contained in coal acquired by the Tribe as successor in interest to a statutory reservation of coal to the United States.
The Ute Indian Reservation was established in 1864, when the Uncompahgre, White River and Southern Utes "exchanged their aboriginal lands in New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado for.
Although the language employed in the 1914 and 1916 reservations is more expansive and admits more variety in type and character of mineral reservation than the language used in the 1909 and 1910 Acts, judicial interpretations of these statutes have reached for the outer limits of reasonable construction in favor of the sovereign.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/1998/07/94-1579.htm   (12420 words)

  
 American Indian Language Development Institute - AILDI   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phillip is a speaker/learner of the Nez Perce language and is currently documenting the endangered languages of his homeland in the southern Columbia Plateau of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Language, Reading, and Culture at the University of Arizona where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in language policy and law, bilingual education, and English as a Second Language methodologies.
She is known nationally and internationally as a long-time language and education activist.
www.u.arizona.edu /~aildi/Faculty.htm   (1403 words)

  
 Ethnologue Language code 'UTE'
GRN has recognised and recorded 3 distinct spoken languages and dialects within this language code.
See also the alphabetical language list and full country list.
Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
globalrecordings.net /langcode/UTE   (130 words)

  
 Town of Ignacio - Colorado
SOURCE WATER OF THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE The source of the water treated at the Southern Ute Indian Tribe is the Los Pinos River, also called the Pine River.
The purpose of the SWPP was to identify all possible contamination sources that could flow into the Pine River or underground aquifers from the surrounding watershed and to create a plan to prevent as much potential contamination into the river as possible.
Although the Southern Ute Indian Tribe is regulated by the EPA, these testing requirements meet the criteria of the Colorado State Health Department.
www.townofignacio.com /news.asp?article=62   (1102 words)

  
 Canku Ota - May 19, 2001 -
David Box, a Southern Ute elder who lives in Denver, helped lay the groundwork for some of Goss’ Ignacio interviews in the early 1960s, he said.
Goss was at the Ute museum Tuesday helping develop an exhibit on Southern Ute veterans of 20th century wars.
Goss’ donation "is a great impetus to plan not only a museum, but also a research facility so that Ute students could come here and study about their own culture and not have to go somewhere else and fill out forms, and be denied access to collections," she said.
www.cankuota.org /Issues01/Co05192001/CO_05192001_Anthro_Ute.htm   (683 words)

  
 Southern Ute oral history collection (U 012) at the Center ofSouthwest Studies
Chairperson of the Language and Cultural Dept., Southern Ute Tribe.
Southern Ute Indians U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Southern Ute tribal elder, a granddaughter of Chief Ouray, a veteran, a tribal councilor, a parent, a spiritual leader and a teacher.
swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/UteOH.htm   (877 words)

  
 Southern Ute Project
Southern Ute Ethnobotany Project: Submitted by Enrique Salmon Fort Lewis College Department of Anthropology Durango, Colorado 1998 Introduction Two elements of our Excellence Grant involve the promotion of student education and public outreach to the Four Comers.The Southern Ute Ethnobotany Project will address these elements.
Soon all the native language is gone along with the knowledge of land management which preserved this continent for so many centuries.
The Southern Ute Cultural Preservation Office contacted me to ask if I would be interested in conducting an ethnobotany project on the Southern Ute Reservation.
www.anthro.fortlewis.edu /ethnobotany/special_events/sup.htm   (1121 words)

  
 Excerpts: San Juan River Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dorothy Naranjo teaches the Ute language and, during the summer, runs "culture camps" for Indian children to learn tanning, basketry, herbs, traditional arts, taxidermy and wood carving along with Ute songs and stories.
Southern Ute elders teach many of the courses.
The Southern Utes' classes, camps and language lessons have multiracial enrollment.
carbon.cudenver.edu /stc-link/weblink/water/xt/sjr.t.html   (280 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Obituaries
He was instrumental in rescuing the Animas-La Plata water project and saving tribal water rights for the Southern Utes.
Maynes was hired by the Southwestern Water Conservation District in 1965 and became fascinated with the importance of water.
Maynes said he had learned enough Southern Ute language to know when they were talking about him.
staging.insidedenver.com /drmn/obituaries/article/0,1299,DRMN_45_3064353,00.html   (455 words)

  
 Amoco Production Co. v. Southern Ute Indian Tribe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Land patents issued to western settlers pursuant to the Coal Lands Acts of 1909 and 1910 conveyed the land and everything in it, except the "coal," which was reserved to the United States.
30 U. Among the lands patented to settlers under the 1909 and 1910 Acts were former reservation lands of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, which the Tribe had ceded to the United States in 1880 in return for certain allotted lands provided for their settlement.
Southern Pacific R. Co., 234 U. 669, 679 (1914) (rejecting "scientific test" for determining whether a reservation of "mineral lands" included "petroleum lands"); see also Perrin v.
lw.bna.com /lw/19990608/98830.htm   (4914 words)

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