RBC | Last month Archaeologist Luke Trout from the Bureau of Land Management’s White River Field Office shared research findings with the White River Alliance in a presentation titled “History in the White River Valley: How Humans Shape Our Landscape,” focusing on the last 200 years of history in the[Read More…]
Tag: Ute Indians
Tuesday, Sept. 29 marks 141st anniversary of “Meeker Incident”
MEEKER | Tuesday, Sept. 29 will mark the 141st anniversary of the “Meeker Incident” (https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/meeker-incident). That sad day in early autumn was the culmination of more than a decade of rising tensions between the Utes and the federal government after six Ute tribes signed a treaty in 1868 ceding their[Read More…]
Pow wow event represents new era for town, Utes
MEEKER — What started with a conversation in 1993, and then 12 years later began to take shape as a formal plan, will become reality this weekend.
Bear Dance has sights, sounds of Ute tradition
FT. DUCHESENE — There was a Bear Dance May 16-18. It was traditional. It was a celebration. The event took place within a live branch bough dance circle, and it is a wonderfully warm Ute tradition to welcome in spring — a time to shake off the ills of the[Read More…]