Ute Indian Tribe

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Ancestral Homeland: Utah, New Mexico and Colorado

Bands: Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Uncompahgre (Taviwach), White River (Parusanuch and Yampa), Uintah, Timpanogots, Sanpits, and Moanunts

Bands in Colorado: Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Uncompahgre, Parusanuch and Yampa

Bands in Utah: Uintah, Timpanogots, Pahvant, Sanpits and Moanunts.

Population: 1990: 7,273 (Northern Ute 2,650, Ute Mountain 1,264, Southern Ute 1,044 others off reservations)

Leaders: Walker, Ignacio, Ouray

Tribal Headquarters
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah &amp; Ouray Reservation P.O. Box 190 Ft. Duchesne, UT 84026 Phone: 1.435.722.5141 Fax: 1.435.722.2374


 * The Ute Indian Tribe Official Website

Brief Timeline

 * 1849: Treaty
 * 1853: Walker War
 * 1860: Black Hawk War
 * 1861: Uintah and Ouray Utes of Utah terminated, Tribal membership 490, Tribal land 211,430
 * 1863: Treaty
 * 1868: Treaty
 * 1873: Weminuche, Mouache and Capote bands relocate to Pine River in southwestern Colorado. (today: Soutern Ute and Ute Mountain Reservations)
 * 1879: Meeker Massacre, Utes kill 13 U.S. soldiers and 10 agency officials (Meeker had plowed under the White River band's horse-racing tract.)
 * 1895: Weminuche band moves to Southern Ute Reservation and become Ute Mountain

Reservations
Southern Ute Reservation - Colorado- descendants of Muache and Capote bands

Ute Mountain Reservation - Colorado-Weeminuche

Uintah-Ouray Reservation - Utah - Uncompahgre (Taviwach), White River (Parusanuch and Yampa), Uintah, Timpanogots, Sanpits, and Moanunts

Agencies
The following Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs had jurisdiction over all or part of the Ute Indians for the years indicated:


 * Consolidated Ute -- Southern Ute
 * Fort Lewis -- Southern Ute
 * Navajo Springs -- Southern Ute
 * Paiute
 * Southern Ute -- Southern Ute
 * Uintah Valley
 * Uintah and Ouray -- Uncompahgre Ute Band, White River Band
 * Ute Mountain -- Southern Ute

Superintendencies

 * Utah

Enrollment

 * 1954 Propoed rolls Full Blood and Mixed Blood of the Ute Tribe of Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah www.accessgenealogy.com

Uintah and Ouray Agency Land Division. 1953 FHL film: 001762

Treaties

 * 1849 December 30,
 * 1863 October 7, with the Tabeguache Band
 * 1868 March 2, at Washington, with the Tabaguache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yampa, Grand River and Uinta bands

Vital Records

 * Uintah and Ouray Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932, FHL Film: 583072
 * Consolidated Ute Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1931, FHL Film: 575769 and births and deaths 1931-1939, FHL Film: 575770

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution and By-laws of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
 * The Ute Indian Tribe Official Website
 * Ute Tribe Wikipedia