11/15/2023 0 Comments Stone heads location carrot weather![]() ![]() Today, the Mouache and Caputa bands comprise the Southern Ute Tribe and are headquartered at Ignacio, Colorado. The Comumba/Weber band was a very small group and intermarried and joined the Northern and Western Shoshone. The Sheberetch lived in the area now known as Moab, Utah, and were more desert oriented. The Moanumts lived in the upper Sapete Valley, Central Utah, in the Otter Creek region of Salum, Utah and Fish Lake area they also intermarried with the Southern Paiutes. The Sanpits (San Pitch) lived in the Sapete Valley, Central Utah and Sevier River Valley. The Timonogots lived in the south and eastern area of Utah Lake, to North Central Utah. They inter-married with the Goshute and Paiute in Southern Utah and Nevada. The Pahvant occupied the desert area in the Sevier Lake region and west of the Wasatch Mountains near the Nevada boundary. The Uintah lived east of Utah Lake to the Uinta Basin of the Tavaputs plateau near the Grand and Colorado River systems. The White River Ute (Parianuche and Yamparika) lived in the alleys of the White and Yampa river systems, and in the North and middle park regions of the Colorado Mountains, extending west to Eastern Utah. The Uncompahgre (Tabeguache) were located near the Uncompahgre and Gunnison, and Elk Rivers near Montrose and Grand Junction, Colorado. The Weenuchiu occupied the valley of the San Juan River and its north tributaries in Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico. A few family units also lived in the shadow of Chimney Rock, now a designated United States National Monument. They frequented the region near Chama and Tierra Amarilla. The Caputa band lived east of the Continental Divide, south of the Conejos River and in the San Luis Valley near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. The Mouache band lived on the eastern slopes of the Rockies, from Denver south to Trinidad, Colorado, and further south to Las Vegas, New Mexico. ![]() The names of the bands and the areas they lived in before European contact are as follows: The remaining Ute people became a loose confederation of tribal units called bands. The Utes settled around the lake areas of Utah, some of which became the Paiute, other groups spread north and east and separated into the Shoshone and Comanche people, and some traveled south becoming the Chemehuevi and Kawaiisus. ![]() The Ute civilization spoke the same language, shared values, observed the same social and political practices, in addition to inhabiting and holding a set territory. Traits commonly attributed to people possessing a civilization. Tribes living in this area, ancestors of the Utes were the Uto-Aztecs, who spoke one common language they possessed a set of central values, and had a highly developed society. The Utes were a large tribe occupying the great basin area, encompassing the Numic speaking territories of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Eastern California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Northern Arizona and New Mexico. It is believed that the people who speak Shoshonean separated from other Ute-Aztecan speaking groups, such as the Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone Bannock, Comanche, Chemehuevi and some tribes in California. ![]() The language of the Utes is Shoshonean, a dialect of that Uto-Aztecan language. They would travel and camp in familiar sites and use well established routes such as the Ute Trail that can still be seen in the forests of the Grand Mesa, and the forerunner of the scenic highway traversing through South Park, and Cascade, Colorado. Prior to acquiring the horse, the Utes lived off the land establishing a unique relationship with the ecosystem. According to tribal history handed down from generation to generation, our people lived here since the beginning of time. The Ute people are the oldest residents of Colorado, inhabiting the mountains and vast areas of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Eastern Nevada, Northern New Mexico and Arizona. ![]()
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