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Ouray, Ute Chief, Colorado, 1874. Ouray (/ ˈ jʊər eɪ /, c. 1833 – August 20, 1880) was a Native American chief of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of the Ute tribe, then located in western Colorado.
Chipeta and her husband Chief Ouray, wearing a shirt she beaded. In 1859, Chipeta married Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgres, becoming his second wife. [5] His first wife had died and their child was kidnapped by Plains Indians. [10] Ouray was ten years older than Chipeta, and at age 16, [11] she was the youngest of his wives. [9]
Chipeta, Ouray's wife and Ute delegate to negotiations with federal government; R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flutist; Ouray, leader of the Uncompahgre band of the Ute tribe; Polk, Ute-Paiute chief; Posey, Ute-Paiute chief; Joseph Rael, (b. 1935), dancer, author, and spiritualist; Sanpitch, chief of the Sanpete tribe, and brother of Chief ...
Ouray of the Uncompahgre band was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as head of all Ute tribes, which was not agreed upon by the Southern Ute bands. The first reservation created by the treaty of 1868 encompassed about 1/3 of present-day Colorado, mostly the mountainous regions west of the continental divide.
The Uncompahgre Ute (/ ˌ ʌ ŋ k ə m ˈ p ɑː ɡ r eɪ ˈ j uː t /) or ꞌAkaꞌ-páa-gharʉrʉ Núuchi (also: Ahkawa Pahgaha Nooch) is a band of the Ute, a Native American tribe located in the US states of Colorado and Utah.
The Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation is the second-largest Indian Reservation in the US – covering over 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of land. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] Tribal owned lands only cover approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2 ) of surface land and 40,000 acres (160 km 2 ) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2 ...
A Colorado man has been cited after allegedly stealing more than 200 newspapers in Ouray County after a story about a reported sexual assault at the local police chief’s house was published ...
Shawsheen was married to Chief Johnson 2, otherwise known as Canalla, a White River Ute. [1] The marriage was arranged by her father, Guero in order to increase relations between the Northern Utes and the Tabeguache Utes. [1] After the marriage, Shawsheen left the Uncompahgre Valley to live on the White River with her new family. [5]