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Think we are on their land!
We have taken over their land and killed them. We have horrible stereotypes for the Native Americans like redskins and savages The belief is that the indigenous people were savages because of their lack of clothing and primitive tools. In the dictionary, savage is defined as fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. However, the colonists were closer to savages than the indigenous people. When the colonists came in they brought slaves, disease, and other harmful things. The main thing that we brought was the gruesome effect that we had on the land. We tried to kill the natives, took the land the animals, and took control, saying my way or the highway. In the end, the colonists took over and have a hypocritical view of their history. For example, we have a holiday in the USA called Columbus Day when in reality, he didn’t set foot in the U.S. so how are they savage?
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Unlike other tribes,the Ute do not have a strong belief that God is great. They believe that he existed but was not meant to be cherished.
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TAccording to tribal history handed down over many generations, the Utes were originally a tribe that lived throughout Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, some areas of Arizona, and New Mexico. They lived in the mountains and plains of these states. Now they are confined to a much smaller area in southern Colorado, a slice of Northern New Mexico, and Utah. And they are divided into separate tribes, each with their own tribal government.
Sequiah Tallbird performs the fancy shawl dance during the Ute Indian Powwow dance performance and presentation in the auditorium at the Steamboat Springs High School in 2019.
On Christmas Day 1854, about 100 Ute and a few Jicarilla descended on El Pueblo in Colorado. They killed 15 men, captured two women, and ran off all the stock. Then, they crossed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and attacked a settlement recently founded in the San Luis Valley near where Alamosa, Colorado now stands. In Retaliation to the attack, on March 19th, troops skirmished with a a war party near Poncha Pass. They killed eight warriors and captured the party’s entire pony herd after a four-day chase. Colonel Philip St. George Cooke led the retaliation. The retaliation did not kill off the Ute but cut their numbers down sufficiently.
