AD 1000s to 2022

This is a current Ute house and it is pretty typical for their hoouses to look like this.

To understand where the Utes are today now as a nation and in their current location, we have to look at their past. The pre-European Ute tribe BC 1000–1200 was a thriving tribe whose territory was in the Four Corners area. By 1300 BCE, when the Europeans came to what is now California, they pushed them out of their territory. The Utes mostly retreated to the Rocky Mountains where they knew they would have the advantage of mountainous terrain. They had reason to stay with their ancestral land because their ancestors said that they are a part of the land and the land is a part of them. The Ute Nation is currently comprised of 2,970 members and the majority of the tribe is on their reservation in Colorado.

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As times changed, the Utes had to change with it. They adapted to the roles of the colonists, learned Christianity, and how to use modern-day tools such as guns. Today, the Ute reservation consists of 1.3 million acres of trust land. It is divided between Lake City, Utah near US Highway 40 and in Colorado south of Pagosa Springs. The Utes operate several businesses on their land including a supermarket, gas stations, a bowling alley, a tribal feedlot, Uinta River Technologies, Ute TribEnterprises, LLC and water systems. The average life expectancy on the reservation is 55 years old and the average annual income is $24,510.