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Milk Creek Memorials: Look forward but never forget

by Sean McMahon on October 6, 2015

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Above is the new Ute Memorial to the tribe members lost at the Milk Creek Battlefield. This memorial, erected by the Utes, who are members of a sovereign nation, is the only memorial to foreign troops put up by a foreign nation on United States soil.

The color guard from the Meeker VFW was on hand at the Milk Creek Battlefield memorial dedication on Saturday before a couple hundred people.

Tribal leaders from four Ute…