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7 Porch Notes tagged “ute,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Hinsdale County

Lake City exists because of mining on land taken from the Ute people

Lake City grew as a mining supply town in the 1870s on land the Ute people were forced to cede, history worth understanding plainly.

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History and culture - Ouray County

Ouray is named for a Ute leader, and the county carries the name too

The town and county of Ouray are named for Ouray, a nineteenth-century leader of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of Ute people, and early accounts say the townsite was first known as Uncompahgre City.

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History and culture - Montrose County

The Ute Indian Museum tells the Ute story of the Uncompahgre Valley

Just south of Montrose, the Ute Indian Museum is a History Colorado site on land tied to Ute leader Ouray and his wife Chipeta, and it is the place to learn the Uncompahgre Valley's Ute history.

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History and culture - El Paso County

Pikes Peak carried older names long before it was on a map

The mountain that anchors El Paso County was known to the Ute and other tribes by its own names for generations before Zebulon Pike's 1806 sighting.

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History and culture - Moffat County

Northwest Colorado was Ute homeland, and that history deserves care

The land that became Moffat County was long the homeland of Ute people, and their removal in the late 1800s opened it to settlement — a history worth learning from official and tribal sources.

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History and culture - Garfield County

Glenwood Springs grew up around its hot springs

The mineral hot springs at Glenwood Springs were known to the Ute people long before the town, and that water is a central part of why the place grew where it did.

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History and culture - Grand County

Long before the towns, Middle Park was Ute hunting ground

The high valley that holds Grand County's towns was a long-used hunting ground and gathering place for Ute people, including the hot springs at Hot Sulphur Springs.

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