Keeping traditions alive…

The story starts out with Ute children at play and ends up with the White River Agency burning. The Meeker Massacre Pageant “Twilight of the Ute Empire,” a major part of the Range Call weekend in Meeker, is all about what happened in between. Indian agent Nathan C. Meeker started out on a friendly path with the Utes, but that relationship deteriorated when Meeker imposed conditions on the Native Americans they could not live with.