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 bands were present Saturday for the dedication of the Ute Memorial and the Milk Creek Battlefield Memorial as well as the dancers, left, from Fort Duchesne, Utah. The bands involved in this area were the White River, Uncompahgre and Uintah Utes although the Uncompahgre Utes were not involved at the battlefield.
Above is the long-standing monument to U.S. military troops lost at the battle, located about 22 miles north of Meeker.
Jonas Grant, an elder with the Uncompahgre Utes of Southwest Colorado, looks out over the Milk Creek Battlefield, land which was part of the Northern Ute lands prior to the 1880s, when white people took over the lands in much of Northwest Colorado from the Utes.
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