![]() The men hunted animals, including deer, antelope, buffalo, rabbits, and other small mammals and birds. The Ute people were hunters and gatherers who moved on foot to hunting grounds and gathering land based upon the season. Most anthropologists agree that Utes were established in the Four Corners area by 1500 C.E. The use of lands in the Four Corners area, where the Ute Mountain Ute tribe now live, though, came later. Two thousand years ago, the Utes lived and ranged in the mountains and desert over much of the Colorado Plateau present day eastern Utah, western Colorado, northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. They moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band ( Weminuche, Weemeenooch, Wiminuc, Guiguinuches) lived west of the Great Divide along the Dolores River of western Colorado, in the Abajo Mountains, in the Valley of the San Juan River its northern tributaries and in the San Juan Mountains including eastern Utah. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah. ![]() ![]() The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe / ˈ j uː t/ ( Ute dialect: Wʉgama Núuchi) is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897.
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