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Forbidden Bikepacking: Tour the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park

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Outside Mag FEATURES FCG BIKEPACKING TOUR!

Outside Magazine’s featured, hidden gem trip with Four Corners Guides is the ONLY way to bikepack in the stunning canyon lands of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park. Located in the Four Corners region of southwest Colorado, this park features 125,000 acres dotted with Ancient Puebloan cliff dwellings and other structures.

NAT GEO WORLD TRAVEL DESTINATION

National Geographic Traveler named the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal park one of the “80 World Destinations for Travel in the 21st Century.” It’s one of only nine places in the United States to receive this special designation.

Calling All Cycling Groups: Uncover Ancient Mysteries In a place no one else can ride

Gather your cycling crew for an epic adventure into the heart of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, adjacent to Mesa Verde NP. Four Corners Guides is your key to unlocking the secrets of this landscape. Only we have permits to bike explore the Park. Group Expedition Highlights:

✔️Bike to Basecamp for Brews + Dinner ✔️Ride through Time & Explore Ancient Ruins Exploration  ✔️Cultural Immersion With Tribal Park Guides ✔️Spectacular Camping Under Dark Skies

The Only Way to Bikepack (or packraft) the ute mountain ute tribal park

• Beginner 2-day, 22-mile Out-and-Back Tour: Start at Scullbinder Ranch, explore Ancient Puebloan ruins for a half day, spend one night under the stars. Return to the Ranch the 2nd day, exploring roadside ruins along the way. 
• Beginner/Intermediate 3-day, 60-Mile Loop Tour : Spend 2 big days riding through the Tribal Park and one full day exploring ruins with a Tribal Park guide. Explore roadside ruins.
• Intermediate 2- to 3-day Packrafting Tou r: Spend 2 to 3 days packrafting rowdy rapids in a tight, fast river channel. Must be a solid Class III boater. Add a day to explore ruins.

UNTOUCHED, UNDISCOVERED: THE Last BLANK SPOT ON THE MAP IN COLORADO

Be one of just a few dozen cyclists or packrafters each year to pedal or paddle the undiscovered and untouched landscape of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park!

While the Tribal Park lies adjacent to its more famous neighbor, Mesa Verde National Park, and though it preserves similar antiquities, these two parks differ vastly. On our bike ride on barely maintained dirt roads along the Mancos River (or our packrafting descent of the river), we’ll visit road-side ruins only we have permission to explore . We’ll also check out spots with hundreds of pottery sherds spanning the millennia Ancestral Puebloans lived in the area. Please note the Ute Mountain Ute’s invite us to look at and photograph the artifacts, but not to touch or take them.

Not only have most artifacts in Mesa Verde NP been looted or removed long ago, but Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings have been shored up, fenced it and barred off with heavy metal doors. Their ruins are only accessible via busy tours with dozens of tourists. On our tours, you’ll visit minimally stabilized ruins with just our small group and a Ute Mountain Ute guide.

And, instead of a scientific account of Ancient Puebloans, we’ll enjoy our Ute Mountain Ute guides integrating their tribe’s history with that of the ancient lands they caretake through story telling. There’s a place for both interpretations of the past, but each time we do a Tribal Park tour, we discover something extraordinary, new and different. 

Want to read more about this remote locale? Check out Mike Adamski’s story, “ There Are Still Blank Spots on the Map .” You can also view a full gallery of Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park bikepacking and packrafting photos on the  Four Corners Guides Packrafting & Bikerafting Facebook Page .

2024 ute mountain ute tribal park bikepacking tours

We have no packrafting tours schedule yet, as we don’t know if we will have sufficient flows for 2024. Packrafting tours are generally two days, but you may schedule a third day of exploring cliff dwellings. Email us April 2024 for updates.

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Ute Tribal Paths

A History Colorado Online Exhibit and Digital Badge

History Colorado is very excited to share  “Ute Tribal Paths”, a free online exhibit and digital badge on Ute Indian history, traditions and contemporary lives.

Click on the link to learn the story of Colorado’s longest continuous residents and explore: 

• Maps of the traditional Ute territories and today’s three Ute reservations
• Video of Ute elder Alden Naranjo telling the story of the Bear Dance
• Biographies of Ute leaders, including Ignacio, Buckskin Charlie and Ouray.
• Photos of modern life on the three Ute reservations in Colorado in Utah.
• Images of Ute clothing and artwork that will be featured in the new Ute Indian Museum exhibits

In order to earn a digital badge, you’ll need to put historic events in the right places on a timeline and match traditional Ute activities to the season of the year.

About the online exhibits and digital badges:

In 2014, History Colorado received funding to create online exhibits and digital badges from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences for K12 students and teachers. Our online exhibits bring history to life through immersive environments rich in historic photos, videos, primary sources and interactive elements like packing a digital suitcase. After students explore the online exhibits, they can earn an easy, medium or hard digital badge by completing activities like answering questions, completing timelines, and drawing conclusions from primary sources.

We chose five of the most compelling and relevant stories in Colorado history including Japanese Internment during WWII, African American history in Colorado, the Fur Trade, and Ute history. The final online exhibit is called La Gente: Colorado’s Hispano History.

Behind-the-scenes

Step 1 – Ask Teachers:  History Colorado surveyed Colorado educators to find out what they needed. Their responses showed that they had limited resources to teach about Ute people, and they were eager for in-depth, engaging resources. 

Step 2 – Pull together existing resources: The digital exhibit team decided to start with “Tribal Paths”, and exhibit that was hosted at the Colorado History Museum in 2008. We took the outline of that exhibit, and then began looking through History Colorado’s collections to decide which of artifacts and historic photographs could best tell the stories of the Utes.  In 2013, Rocky Mountain PBS and History Colorado produced the “ The Original Coloradans ”, a special about the Utes. Many of the interviews from this special are included in the online exhibit. 

Step 3 – Create the website: During this stage, we had lots of meetings and back and forth with our website developer. There were lots of fun challenges, like “how can you make a webpage that opens like a parfleche (a large folded “envelope” made out of deer hide)” or “how can we make a timeline show up on a piece of beadwork.”

Step 4 – Consultation with the tribes: Most important of all, representatives of the three Ute tribes reviewed all of the content and provided constructive feedback on the stories and presentation.

Step 5 – Test with Students: outreach educators have shared the online exhibit and digital badges with  three 3rd and 4th grade classes at rural school, and the three 7th and 11th classes at a Denver metro school. The students all loved the online exhibits and were especially struck by the history of the removal of Ute Indians from Colorado. Students kept saying, “Hey, that’s not fair,” and “They lived here first, how can the government just take their land?!” We’re pleased that students are having a very personal interest and connection with Colorado history.

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Colorado Indians Tour One 

This virtual field trip is a tour of the Ute Indian Museum. The museum is located in Montrose, Colorado.

It is devoted to the history and culture of the Ute tribes and to the life of Ute Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta. The Colorado Historical Society runs the museum.

This virtual tour can give you only a glimpse of the contents and richness of the Ute Indian Museum. The virtual tour will show you some of the items exhibited here. It will provide you with as much information about those items as space allows. We urge you to visit the museum whenever you are close by.

Ute Chief Ouray

"Ouray, leader of the eastern Utah bands of the Utes, was selected by the United States government to be the Chief of the Ute Nation (as the seven bands of Utes were officially named). Half Tabeguache Ute and half Apache, Ouray led the Utes in a time of social and political change during which his people were uprooted and forced into resettlement. He was a man of peace in a time of war between Utes and whites. One of the greatest of Ute leaders, Ouray directed his energies to solving the problems of his people during and after the loss of lands, and he traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with presidents and congressmen in hopes of peaceful solutions to war."

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"Settling on a 500-acre homestead at this site [at what is now the Ute Indian Museum] after the establishment of the 1868 reservation boundaries, Ouray died in Ignacio, Colorado, in 1880. In the traditional manner, his body was wrapped in a blanket, laid in a rocky spot and covered with branches and rocks. Forty-four years later, his remains were gathered from the initial resting place and reburied in the tribal cemetery in Ignacio. His beloved wife Chipeta lies on the land of the homestead, on the [Ute Indian] Museum grounds."

Ute Chief Ouray's Shirt

This shirt is a beaded buckskin shirt in maroon, yellow, dark blue on a white background. It has a fringed flap opening at the front and back. It also has about 12 inches of fringe at the bottom. Chief Ouray's wife Chipeta made this shirt for him to wear on his trip to Washington, D.C., to negotiate a treaty with the federal government. When Ouray died in 1880, Chipeta sent the shirt to Carl Schurz, a friend of Ouray's who was involved in the treaty negotiation. Schurz's family eventually donated the shirt to the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, which, in turn, donated it to the Colorado Historical Society.

Ute Chief Ouray's Artifact Case

The mug in this display case of some of Chief Ouray's artifacts was given to Ouray by United States President U. S. Grant (Grant was President from 1869-1877).The mug is made of silver. It has a handle and has a capital "O" engraved on the side. Later, Ouray presented this mug to J. E. Gardner whose son Frank donated the object to the Colorado Historical Society in 1937. Another interesting object in this display case is the knife that belonged to Chief Ouray. The knife has a bone handle and steel blade. It is decorated with brass circles. Gordon Kimball, of Ouray, Colorado, later owned the knife. At his death, William Rathmell became the owner and his son Henry donated it to the Colorado Historical Society in 1958.

"Born a Kiowa Apache but raised as a Tabeguache Ute, Chipeta became Ouray's second wife in 1859 when she was sixteen and he twenty-six. As the wife of this Ute diplomat, Chipeta lived in two worlds: that of her family and Ute heritage, and that of the ever-closer whites. On trips with her husband to Washington, D.C., she held on to her Ute ways and did not try to adapt to white culture, but she charmed eastern [United States] society."

"The couple lived in a house that the United States government provided for them near Montrose, the surrounding land extending to include this [Ute Indian] Museum acreage. But after Ouray's death, and for the remaining forty-four years of her life, Chipeta lived with her people and shared their joys and hardships. When the Utes were expelled from Colorado in 1880, Chipeta was among them, seeing the last of the land her husband had tried so hard to save for his people. Following her death, her body was returned to the homestead she shared with Ouray. Her monument lies just north of the [Ute Indian] museum building."

Source: Text from Ute Indian Museum

Chipeta's Artifact Case

We apparently don't know very much about some of the items you see in Chipeta's artifact display case. This is simply to point out that the "provenience" (a big word that essentially means the story and authenticity of a specific artifact or document) of artifacts like these is very important. Without knowing the story behind such artifacts, we have difficulty dating the items and knowing whether they are authentic (that is, whether they are, in fact, what is claimed for them). 

Who Are The Utes?

The Ute Name: "Known to other groups [of Indians] by many names, the Utes referred to themselves as Nuche, "the people." In the southwestern part of their homeland, the Utes were called "Deer Hunting Men" by the Zuni and the "Mountain People" by other Pueblo communities. Out on the plains to the east, they were known as the "Black People" to the Cheyenne because of their dark skin color, and as the "Rabbit Skin Robes" to the Omaha and Ponca peoples. The name by which we now know them came from the Spanish terms Yutas, Uticas or Utacus."

"The Utes are the longest continuous residents of Colorado. While it is not known exactly when the first of their people came from the north and west, they had lived in their mountain and plateau homeland for centuries by the time the Spanish arrived in the 1500's. Their original territory stretched across portions of the Colorado Plateau, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. In 1800, just before the influx of Euro American traders, miners and settlers, the Utes occupied an estimated 140,000 square miles of territory. Their nomadic existence was based on hunting large and small game and gathering the grasses, roots, berries and fruits native to the area."

Ute History

"For over 1,000 years, the Utes crossed western America's great mountains and high plateaus, hunting as they went and confident that so long as they stayed true to their traditions their lives would remain unchanged. Their origins are largely unknown, but since their arrival they have occupied the western half of present Colorado. The Utes were divided into seven main bands, but for the most part traveled in smaller clans, the better to find game and feed the people. Membership in the groups changed as individuals moved from band to band. During the warm half of the year, groups spread across the broad landscape, but gathered in winter and early spring to socialize and participate in ceremonies and events such as the Bear Dance."

"The acquisition of the horse, as well as the adoption of elements of Plains Indian culture such as the tipi, profoundly changed Ute life. Mounted on their sturdy ponies, the men could venture far afield in conflict, search of food or trade. Women set up tipis, raised and taught children, gathered and cooked food, prepared hides and made baskets, household goods and clothing."

"More changes came with the coming of the whites. Pushed onto ever smaller sections of land, the Utes found it increasingly difficult to support themselves. Without the free movement necessary to follow herds of elk, deer and buffalo, they were threatened with starvation. Also, the hordes of whites who increasingly entered the high country in search of gold and silver saw the Utes as a menace to nineteenth century notions of progress and the march of civilization."

"Unlike many Plains tribes, the Utes experienced little warfare in relations with the United States government, preferring instead, with Ouray and other leaders at the forefront, to negotiate peaceful settlements to conflict. By 1880, the Utes were forced from the state--except for the three southern bands who now live on the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain reservations in southwestern Colorado."

The Utes Today

"The seven Ute bands now reside on three reservations. In Colorado, the Mouache and Capote bands comprise the Southern Ute Tribe with headquarters in Ignacio, and the Weeminuche band is settled around Towaoc as the Ute Mountain Tribe. The Northern Utes--the Tabeguache, Grand, Yampa and Uintah bands--live on the Uintah-Ouray reservation surrounding Fort Duchesne, Utah."

"Today's Utes are separated from their old traditions by more than a century of struggle to save their culture and yet survive as a people in a non-Indian world. The three tribes have never abandoned their resistance to the forced change of lifestyle and the loss of their homelands, and have continued the fight, often in the courtroom, to keep their traditions alive. All have developed a base of industry to support tribal economic security and provide income for tribal members, including agriculture, mining, water and gas leases, and tourism, among other industries. In spite of hardship, the people have retained their humor, their pride and their commitment to their heritage."

The Coming of the Horse

"The Utes were among the first Indian peoples to obtain horses in the centuries after the arrival of the Spanish, and they quickly became admired and feared for their skill as horsemen. The Utes were now able to travel greater distances than ever before: this changed their lifestyle by opening up access to the plains, where buffalo herds provided a new source of food. Increased contact with Plains tribes brought both conflict and the opportunity to trade goods and ideas."

Source: Text from the Ute Indian Museum

Diorama of Ute Village

This diorama depicts a Ute village sometime after about 1500 (one way to tell is the presence of horses in the village). After the Utes acquired horses, they were better able to hunt buffalo on the plains. In their new contacts with plains tribes, they learned to make tipis from buffalo hides.

If you look closely at the photo, you will see an Ute man at the right of the diorama. He is stripping bark from an aspen tree limb with a stone knife. He is making a tipi pole. The several women in this part of the diorama are setting up a tipi. They set up all the poles first, then they raised a pole with the hide cover attached. The cover was brought around to meet at the doorway and the edges of the cover were pegged to the ground. The woman in the center of the unfinished tipi is making a fire pit. Smoke from the fire escaped from a flap left open at the top of the tipi. In the center is a man unloading buffalo meat, brought into camp on a travois. Behind the tipi is a fire and tripod rack on which the meat was dried. The dried meat was ground with berries and mix with fat to make pemmican (this is what the woman in the finished tipi is doing). In the far background, women are scraping buffalo hides. The hides were scraped, dried, dressed, and used for many things, including saddles, tipi covers, blankets, clothing, and carrying cases (parfleches). In the left foreground, a woman appears to be working on some sort of craft (clothing or beadwork) while a child looks on. A baby is in a cradle board which is hanging from a tree trunk.

Photo: Ute Indian Museum

As you move through this virtual tour of the Ute Indian Museum (or when you visit there), you will see all kinds of artifacts. Some of these are represented in this diorama. One of the things to keep in mind is that the Utes adopted and adapted tools and ways of doing things from many other groups. They traded and interacted in many other ways with other Indian bands and with the Spanish and other Euro Americans as they entered this once remote region.

Ute Wickiups & Tipis

"For years, the Utes lived in wickiups, conical timbered structures covered with boughs, branches, brush and occasionally hides. These were used widely across the mountain and basin region by several [Indian] groups, but in Colorado are usually associated with the Utes. Many [wickiups] are found in timbered areas above 6,000 feet elevation, the homeland territory for most Ute bands. Several types of wickiups are known in Colorado; some are similar to [the example to the bottom]--freestanding structures of cut poles arranged in a conical shape with the pole [ends] resting on or slightly pushed into the ground. Stones sometimes ring and stabilize the poles. A second group is built around and supported by living trees, often formed with flat roofs and straight sides or as lean-tos against a live tree. Not all wickiups were dwellings. Some might have been temporary habitations for bands as they traveled, while others were 'war lodges.' Once erected, wickiups were usually left in place and revisited over several decades by hunters, war parties and travelers. Many scholars believe that wickiups were the only habitation structures built by the Utes prior to European contact. Although the Utes living east of the Green and Colorado Rivers were noted in the historical record as early as the 1620's, they were not described or named until the 1776 expedition of Spanish explorers Dominguez and Escalante into the region. In his report, Escalante notes stick huts of the 'Yutas' which probably identified wickiups, as his report also discusses tipis with a differing description. With the exception of the Escalante document, little is known of wickiups until the early 1800's, by which time the structures were less frequently built. As the horse came to change Ute lifestyles near the end of the 1700's, and within decades, the people began to adopt the hide or cloth tipi from the Plains tribes, as it was more easily moved to new locations. By 1800, most wickiups had been abandoned and the tipi was predominant in the region, often erected next to timber structures in regularly-visited camps."

"This is a portion of one of the few complete surviving examples of Ute building, and a rare museum holding. The wickiup, found near the top of Cochetopa Pass in Saguache County, was photographed and described in a survey of such structures in the late 1930's by Harold Huscher, whose field findings were deposited with the Denver Museum of Natural History in 1939. . . ."

"In 1978, with the wickiup's preservation in its original location threatened, the staff of the Colorado Historical Society's Office of the State Archeologist carefully photo- documented the structure and recorded its disassembly. Individual poles were numbered, the information stored in agency records and the components housed with the collections of the Colorado Historical Museum. Archeological testing of the site was completed, but no artifacts or additional features were located."

Source: Text from Ute Indian Museum

The tipi shown to the right is one of two on the grounds of the Ute Indian Museum. As you have read, wickiups rather than tipis were the primary Ute shelter at least until the Utes acquired horses. The horse changed the Utes' lifestyle in many ways. They were able to travel greater distances more quickly. They could now go out on the plains east of their mountain homelands in search of buffalo.

"Across the West, the buffalo was revered and respected by all native peoples. The buffalo lived in herds that often covered the plains as a dark moving cloud. For the Indian cultures of the Great Plains and surrounding regions, the buffalo was the source of almost all food and raw materials of life. No other animal provided in one being so much of the vital support of human life as did the buffalo, the 'Gift of the Great Spirit.'"

"The buffalo symbolized power, successful hunting and continuity of life by providing materials for so many items of daily use. Hides were tanned for robes, tipis and bags,  bones were cleared of marrow and fashioned into tools, brains were used in tanning and the tongue was savored as a feast delicacy."    

Because Ute tipis coverings were most often made of buffalo hides (at least in the 1800's), very few have been preserved. By the end of the 19th century, most native groups began to use cloth canvas for tipi coverings. The tipi below is made from canvas.

"Unlike the individual stalking of deer, elk or antelope, the hunt for buffalo was usually a group effort. Before the arrival of the horse, much buffalo hunting took the form of ambush near water holes, brush pits, cliffs, and canyon or sand traps. The horse allowed extended travel in the search for large game and the development of hunting techniques suited to the open plains. Lifeways for many Plains Indian groups and for the Ute bands changed to accommodate the increased access to herds and success of the hunt from the speed, flexibility and distance possible as mounted hunters."

"The Utes sought buffalo on the plains, but also pursued the smaller herds of the Great Basin of Utah and the high mountain parks of Colorado. The coming of the white men and increased pace of buffalo hunting reduced the herds almost to extinction; they were gone from the San Luis Valley and Middle Park by 1876 and from North Park before 1880."

Ute Chief Buckskin Charlie

"Born in 1840, Buckskin Charlie was half Ute and half Apache. He grew up among the [Ute] Capote band at a time when his culture was in tremendous flux. Many times in his adult life, he traveled to Washington, D.C., and other cities where he met with government officials to decide the fate of the Utes. On one of his trips, he even marched in [President] Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade."

"At the age of ninety-six, one of the most influential of the Ute leaders died, taking with him the memories of his long life. Ouray had chosen Buckskin Charlie, also called 'Sapiah' or 'Charlie Buck,' to be his successor after his death. Buckskin Charlie continued to guide his people along the same course that the elder leader had so carefully cleared--one of moderation and care."

"Like Ouray, Buckskin Charlie worked for peace between his people and the whites. Realizing that white rule was inevitable, he counseled his tribes people to cooperate with the whites and accept the land allotments offered by the United States. At the same time, he encouraged the Utes to retain their old ways of life. He was especially proud of the leather tanning and beadwork for which his people were famed, and he usually appeared in public dressed in Ute native clothing."

Ute Chief Buckskin Charlie's Vest

The vest shown in the photo belonged to Buckskin Charlie, a sub-chief of the southern Utes. The vest is made of buckskin, with beadwork in green, red, blue, and yellow. The beads are formed in geometric patterns and with American flags. The vest is lined with printed cotton and the bottom of the vest is lined with metallic fringe. The vest is dated sometime before 1915 because the Italian beads were not available after that time. Barry Sullivan, a close friend of Buckskin Charlie, donated the vest to the Colorado Historical Society in 1961.

Ute Chief Buckskin Charlie's Headdress

The headdress in the photo belonged to Buckskin Charlie. It was given to Barry Sullivan in about 1936 when he was dying and was adopted into the tribe. Marie Andrews donated the headdress to the Colorado Historical Society in 1961. The headdress has a single trail of eagle feathers mounted on buckskin. The feathers are dyed orange and light blue. The headband at the top of the bonnet has white, light blue, red and yellow beads.

Ute Women's Clothing

In the photo below is a buckskin dress that once belonged to Ute Chief Ignacio's wife Lauriano-I-You. The dress was made of two large pieces of buckskin. The cape-like sleeves were made from the hind legs of an animal. The bottom of the skirt is fringed while the top is painted with yellow ochre and outlined in blue, red, and green bead rows. The type of beads indicate that the dress was made sometime between 1870 and 1915. Pieces of fur are attached front and back at the neckline. To the left of the buckskin dress are Ute women's leggings. The lower parts of both leggings have decorative beadwork on a white background. The beads were of Italian origin. This fact helps date the leggings sometime between 1870 and 1915.

The women's leggings (left middle of the photo) were made of buckskin. The beads are yellow, blue, red, and green on a white background. Many of the beads were or Italian and Czecheslovakian origin. Brass bells and silver buttons (or studs) are also used to decorate these leggings. The women's moccasins (lower middle of the photo) were also made of buckskin. Beads of many colors are used to make geometric flower designs on a white background. Again, a number of collectors and donors have made these artifacts available to the Colorado Historical Society so the general public can enjoy and appreciate the superb craft work of the Utes.

Ute Men's Clothing

The objects displayed on the board (left part of photo) are a pair of Ute men's leggings. These leggings were made of buckskin and are decorated with buckskin fringe. Each legging was painted with yellow ochre and was decorated with geometric green and red beads. These leggings were probably made sometime between 1860 and 1870. The Colorado Historical Society has had these in its possession since 1888. The green cloth (to the right of the leggings) is called a breech clout (sometimes also called a loin cloth). The cloth is green wool and is decorated with red, orange and blue ribbon. The white ribbon binding was sewn by machine. The date of the breech clout is placed sometime between 1860 and 1910.

The Colorado Historical Society acquired the Ute artifacts in the men's clothing display case in several ways. For example, Ute Chief Severo gave his scalp shirt to Charles Stobie for safe-keeping shortly before Severo's death in 1913. Bob Webb purchased the shirt in about 1961 and in turn sold it to the Historical Society the next year. Indian scout Sam Todd said that a Ute friend of his gave him the Southern Ute war bonnet. A relative of Todd's, Bessie Jo Quimby, gave the war bonnet to the Historical Society in 1982. The historical society acquired the other items in this display case through gift, purchase, and loans from a number of people.

You can see several articles of Ute men's clothing in this photo:

Vest -The purple vest in the foreground is made of corduroy and has metal and glass bead decoration. The beads are Italian (from Venice). Feather War Bonnet - At the back right of the photo is a Ute feather war bonnet. It is made of several kinds of feathers, including eagle feathers. It was made about 1879-1883. Scalp Shirt - At the back left of the photo is a Ute scalp shirt. This one belonged to Ute Chief Severo. Locks from full scalps were used only on a man's best shirt. These shirts were only worn at council meetings and other important occasions.

Objets of Ute Life

The top-most item in this jewelry display case is a Ute woman's collar. The collar has a yellow background with netted beading of red strips and diamonds in both red and blue. It is probably Ute-made but of an Apache design. The woman's necklace to the right is made of twelve hair pipes (hollowed out bone), which are strung on rawhide. Between each hair pipe is a group of three brass beads (one group has four). This necklace was probably made sometime in the 1880's or 1890's. The necklace in the lower middle of the display case is made up of six strands of juniper berries. The berries are dark brown in color and are strung on cotton thread. This necklace was made sometime after 1860. There is no information about the necklace on the left.

The artifact in the upper left corner of the display case is a breast plate. The breast plate was made by either Ute or Teton Sioux Indians, sometime between 1880 and 1910. The breast plate is composed of red dyed hair pipe bones and each bone is bordered by two or three brass beads. There are two rows each with twenty hair pipe bones and brass beads strung on rawhide. The carved pipe at the bottom of the display case dates from about the same period as the breast plate (1880-1910). The stem is made of wood and has a rectangular shape. The L-shaped pipe bowl is made of a stone material. This item was found in southern Colorado. By the way, it is customary among Indian tribes to keep the pipe bowl and stem separated when the pipe is not being used.

Ute Weapons And Tools

In the top right hand corner of the display case is a Ute rifle casing. It is made of buckskin with buckskin fringe and includes a variety of beads and wool cloth. The donor's father, Allen Haskill, got the casing from an Indian believed to be Ute. Haskell was a gate keeper on a toll road between Ridgway and Placerville, Colorado. The Indian sold this casing to Haskill to pay the toll and for pocket money. In the bottom right hand corner of the display case is a knife and knife sheath. The knife has a wooden handle and the blade was made from sheep shears in about 1893 (probably by Apache Indians). The knife sheath is made of rawhide and is beaded on one side. This item is on permanent loan to the Ute Indian Museum.

On the left side of the display case you can see several items important to the Utes.

Quiver and Bowcase - The bow case (just under the bow in the photo) is made of buckskin and sewn with buckskin thongs. The quiver (just below the case) is also made of buckskin and is fringed and painted with several colors.

Bow and Arrows - The bow is made of wood and is backed by sinew to give the bow more strength. The bowstring is also made of sinew and is about three and a half feet long. The arrows are also wood and the iron point and feathers are attached to the wood with sinew.

"Skull Cracker" - The skull cracker (or war club) has a wooden shaft, a large stone at one end, and a horsehair tail at the other end. Because the decoration is rather simple, it is believed that the club could have been made before 1800.

Ute Cradle Boards

There are several items in this display case that may be of interest to you.

Cradle Board - This is a typical Ute cradle, dating from the period 1885-1900. The white color at the top of the board means this was a boy's cradle.

Ute Boy's Vest - The green boy's vest to the right of the cradle dates from the 1890-1915 period. It is probably not more recent than 1915 because the Italian beads used to decorate the vest were not available after that date.

Sling Shot - This sling shot (above the vest) was used as a boy's toy. It was made in about 1905 from commercial leather.

Moccasins - Child-sized moccasins can be seen at the bottom of the display case. These were made of buckskin and may have been burial moccasins.

The Colorado Historical Society acquired these artifacts over a long period of time. They also received these items in a number of ways. In some cases, the Historical Society purchased the items. This was the case, for example, with the Ute boy's moccasins and vest and the Ute girl's toy cradle and doll. Another way the Historical Society has acquired such artifacts is through donations and gifts from many people. For example, the boy's sling shot was a gift of the Joseph Smith family (Smith was Indian agent for the Southern Ute Tribe in the early 1900's). The girl's dress was donated by Mrs. L. D. Bax. Verner Reed gave the infant girl's cradle board to the Society in 1930. Whatever the method, it is important that these kinds of artifacts are collected, preserved, and used to increase our knowledge of the past.

This case displays artifacts that belonged to Ute girls. Ute Girl's Cradle Board - The ochre color of the cradle board means that this belonged to a Ute infant girl. Toy Cradle Board - Just below the buckskin dress, you can see a toy cradle board. Between the cradle board toy and the actual cradle board, you can also see a doll. Ute girls played with both. Cradle boards were an infant's secure home for the first months or year of life. Carried on a mother's back, the child was portable, safe, and easily fed. For mothers who had much work to do, cradle boards provided supervised day care for Ute infants. Girl's Clothing - The case also displays several items of girl's clothing. These include a buckskin dress, two kinds of girl's moccasins, and decorative armbands.

More Ute Artifacts

This display case shows many interesting artifacts that Utes used in their everyday lives. These objects also reflect important aspects of the Ute lifestyle. Two things stand out in particular. First, many Ute artifacts reflect the fact that the horse was at the center of Ute culture (think of the pack saddle and saddle bags, for example). Second, the water bottles reflect the relative dryness (or aridity) of the regions in which the Utes lived. We have seen that many objects displayed in places such as the Ute Indian Museum were donated to or purchased by the curators. This case shows a third way that artifacts are acquired and displayed. The "possible bags," for example, is on extended loan to the museum (since 1931!).

You can see three kinds of water jugs or bottles in the photo to the bottom. The largest bottle (and farthest away in the photo) was actually a basket that was covered with pitch (made from tree sap) both inside and outside. The black items on this basket are handles made of horsehair. This type of bottle was common among many southwest Indian bands besides the Utes. The darkest bottle was obtained at the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. It was also "pitched" and has a leather strap attached to it. The smallest bottle has a rawhide thong handle and was "pitched" inside. In each case, the pitch was used to make the baskets (or bottles) waterproof.

Among the Ute artifacts you can see in this view are the following:

Possible Bags  - When you think of a possible bags (lower right hand corner of the display case), think of a back pack or suitcase. This bag was made of buckskin and decorated with a variety of beads.

Sash  - The three color sash (red, cream, and blue striped cloth) is a Hudson's Bay Trapper's Sash. It once belonged to famed scout Kit Carson.

Pack Saddle  - The object in the left front of the display case is a pack saddle, which is made from wood.

Saddle Bags  - The blue beaded buckskin object at the back of the display case is saddle bags. 

The Ute Bear Dance

The diorama at the Ute Indian Museum depicts the Utes performing the Bear Dance.

"When the first thunder of spring rumbles through the sky, it is time for the Bear Dance. According to the elders, families gather in the spring to set up camp and prepare for the event. The men of the bands prepare the Bear Dance corral and the spaces for the dance activities, and the women create the family's festive clothing for the several-day celebration. When the music starts, the women choose their partners. For several days, lines of dancers move back and forth across the corral to the rhythm of the morache and drum." 

Their Own Words

"While not of direct religious significance, the Bear Dance is among the older Ute ceremonies. Its origins reflect the connection between human and animal life in the Ute past. First recorded by the Spanish, the tradition of the dance was long established by the 1600's. Ute families pass down variations of the story of the dance's origin, but all agree that the Bear showed the Utes how to dance, taught them the songs and instructed them on when and where to hold the dance. As the dance closes, all men and women know to leave the eagle plumes they have worn throughout the even on a cedar tree planted at the east entrance of the dance corral. The Bear Dance symbolizes the beginning of new life in spring, and the leaving behind of past troubles when the cedar tree's plumes flutter in the breeze."

Source: The text is from the Ute Indian Museum

Ute Bear Dance Instruments

The three items shown in the photo are musical instruments used in Ute Bear Dances. On the far right is a rattle. The rattle was a dried tan gourd. It has a wooden handle and traces of green paint has been left on the gourd. It provided music for the Sun Dance as well as the Bear Dance. The next item is a morache with a stick. The instrument was a noise maker--called a "Bear Growler"--used in the Bear Dance. It was made of a wood limb with notches on one side. The Utes ran the rubbing stick (at the bottom of the morache) over the notches to make the noise. The third item is a drum. The drum has a bent wooden frame and a rawhide cover (drum head). It was also used for music in ceremonies and dances. This drum once belonged to "Coup Charlie" a Ute who lived near Bandad, Colorado.

Ute Chief Colorow

"Colorow belonged to the White River Utes, a northern band noted for its resistance to the invading American culture. Since Colorow's people lived high in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the remoteness of their territory contributed to their dislike of miners and other white settlers laying claim to the land.

"Led in part by Colorow, the White River Utes played a major role in the Meeker Massacre and its aftermath in 1879. Eight years later, Colorow was also involved in the last Ute war, which arose when a hunting party he was leading some miles away from his reservation was attacked by a hurriedly assemble whilte 'militia' sent to bring a halt to what was claimed to be Ute poaching."

"Well known throughout the state, Colorow was recognized as he led his band of Utes into towns between Denver and Glenwood Springs, trading for supplies and gathering food and other goods from new settlers and local businesses. He was a good teller of tales, and stories about his life and exploits were likewise embellished [added to, often without regard to truth] during his lifetime and in the years following his death."

Ute Chief Colorow's Bow

The bow in the photo is a sinew lined and wrapped wood bow. It has a sinew bow string and rawhide grip. Caroline Bancroft donated the bow to the Colorado Historical Society in 1947. Her grandfather, Frederick Jones Bancroft, was a good friend of Chief Colorow. Shortly before Colorow's death in 1888, he gave Bancroft this bow.

Caroline Bancroft also apparently donated the arrows shown in the case. The arrows have red and black paint at the feather end and black paint at the point end. The arrowhead is made of metal and the point and feathers are held to the arrow's shaft by sinew.

No information is available for the blanket or rug in the photo.

Ute Chief Ignacio

"Standing six feet tall, Ignacio was an impressive man who struggled to maintain the Ute lifestyle. He refused to accept the individual allotments of land that the government offered his people, fearing that the communal aspects of Ute life would be lost forever. Instead, in 1895, he persuaded the government to set aside for the Weeminuche a separate tract of land in the extreme western section of the Southern Ute Reservation, now known as the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. Ignacio died in 1913, leaving his people, now called the Ute Mountain Utes, convinced of the value of maintaining traditional Ute ways."

"In his eighty-five years as a leader of the Weeminuche band, Chief Ignacio helped guide his people through one of the most difficult periods of Ute history. Born in 1828, Ignacio witnessed the increasing influx of whites into Colorado, saw Ute lands diminish after each successive treaty with the United States government, and watched his people starve as their supply of game dwindled."

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IHMC is making major strides in science and robotics - and you can go see for yourself

For many people, the idea of robots lumbering around on two legs likely sounds like something out of science fiction or the far-flung future.

But the researchers and engineers in the robotics fields are making major strides right in our own backyard − figuratively and literally − and this week is a chance for citizens to go check it out for themselves.

As part of National Robotics Week, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition staff will welcome families, students and the public for tours, walk-throughs and inspiration Thursday, April 11, on the Pensacola campus on South Alcaniz Street. Tours will run from 3-7 p.m., with the final tour beginning at 6:30 p.m.

IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System where researchers pioneer science and technology aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. IHMC researchers and staff collaborate extensively with the government, industry and academia to help develop breakthrough technologies.

The family-friendly open house event encourages scientific discovery through hands-on activities, challenges and demonstrations while providing the opportunity to learn. Visitors will meet IHMC researchers and see first-hand their work in drones, robotics, virtual reality experiences, human performance research projects, data visualization and more.

Dr. Robert Griffin works in the robotics lab at Florida IHMC and researches mobility control for humanoid robots and exoskeletons.

“We have one of the best facilities for legged robots in the world and have been very fortunate to be able to pursue that,” he said in a statement. “We are a major part of the community here, and we can tell that Pensacola loves us and has been good to us.”

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While the robotics lab at the Levin Center for IHMC Research is an open-house highlight, the event also features the Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance (HRP) team. Led by senior research scientist Dr. Marcas Bamman, the team studies disciplines such as physiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, rehabilitation, psychology, environmental stress, and regenerative medicine.

Later this year, the HRP team will move into a nearly completed $40 million research complex that will exponentially expand research capacity and have a tremendous impact on Northwest Florida’s regional economy, according to IHMC.

“IHMC fosters a unique environment in which scientists can walk across the hall and tap into the expertise of leaders in AI, computer science, robotics and the many subdisciplines of HRP," Bamman said in a statement. "Our best days in science are those in which we learn from one another, and our goal at IHMC is to learn without limits.”

National Robotics Week was established by Congress in 2010 and aims to bring together students, educators and influencers who share a passion for robots and technology.

IHMC is located at 40 S. Alcaniz St. in downtown Pensacola. For more information about the facility and its research visit ihmc.us .

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Pancho Villa State Park

Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico, was established in 1959 “in interest of preservation of the memory of the unique, historical occasion of the last hostile action by foreign troops within the continental United States”. It became the only park in the United States to be named after a foreign invader. The creation of the 60-acre park was a gesture of good will between the United States and Mexico. The town of Columbus has been designated a National Historic Site. Across the street from the park is the privately owned Pancho Villa Museum.

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he Ship Rock landform, located in northwestern New Mexico, is the remnant of an explosive volcanic eruption that occurred around 30 million years ago. The main part of the landform is 600 meters high, and 500 meters in diameter. Ship Rock, known as Tse Bitai, or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a volcanic neck, or the central feeder pipe of larger volcanic landform which has since eroded away. The neck is composed of fractured volcanic rock, or breccia, crosscut by many thin veins of lava. Ship Rock is composed of an unusual, highly potassic magma composition called a "minette", thought to form by very small degrees of melting of the earth's mantle. Ship Rock was probably 750 to 1000 meters below the land surface at the time it was formed, and has since gained its prominent form due to erosion of surrounding rocks.

Lake Valley

Lake Valley was a silver-manganese mining district during the late 19th century. Silver was discovered in 1876, and the area was extensively mined until the silver crash in 1893. The Lake Valley district includes the famed Bridal Chamber, which was found in 1881. The Bridal Chamber was among the richest silver deposits ever mined. The spectacular Bridal Chamber ore body composed of silver chlorides and silver bromides was nearly two hundred feet long and 25 feet thick. Chlorargyrite (cerargyrite; AgCl), the main high-grade ore taken from the Bridal Chamber, was mined out by the late 1880s. Manganese minerals, mainly manganite and pyrolusite, were mined in the Lake Valley district during and after World War II. No significant mining activity has occurred in the area since 1959.

Apache Hill, located about 1.5 miles north of the ghost town of Lake Valley on the east side of New Mexico Highway 27, is one of the best fossil collecting sites in southern New Mexico. The fossils are in the Mississippian Lake Valley Limestone. Good outcrops are located just below the top of the hill. Intact fossils, including brachipods, bryozoans, crinoid plates and calyxes, and horn corals, weather out of the shaly limestone in this particular area. Other fossils that can be found include gastropods, pelecypods, cephalopods, and trilobites.

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

The 64-mile stretch of narrow gauge railroad track between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico was originally built in 1880 as part of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. This rail line provided much-needed transportation and freight service between Denver and mining camps in Silverton during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When the Federal Government discontinued the use of the silver and gold standard to back American currency, the "Silver Panic" in 1893 caused the closure of many of the mines in the Silverton area. The railroad continued to operate with revenues from transportation of livestock, timber, and farm produce. The oil and gas industry in the Four Corners region also utilized the railroad. Demand for rail transportation in this region waned by the mid-twentieth century. Passenger service on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ended in 1951 and freight service ended in 1968. Railroad enthusiasts and legislative bodies in New Mexico and Colorado recognized the scenic splendor of the train route between Chama and Antonito. Through a joint effort, the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, complete with coal-powered steam engines carrying tourists in railcars on refurbished narrow gauge tracks, was created in 1970 to preserve this historic and picturesque section of railroad.

Morphy Lake State Park

Morphy Lake State Park offers fishermen, campers, hikers, and other visitors a rustic alpine setting in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Spectacular views are the result of complex geologic processes active since Proterozoic time (1,700 m.y. ago): two major periods of mountain building (called orogenies) and most recently erosion and sedimentation by glaciers and rivers.The state park is 7 miles southwest of Mora and 3 miles northwest of Ledoux in the eastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. It is the least accessible of the New Mexico state parks.

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is on the southeast side of the Valles and Toledo calderas, large collapse features that formed during voluminous eruptions in the Jemez Mountain volcanic field 1.61 and 1.25 million years ago. Tent Rocks encompasses a fascinating landscape in the southeastern Jemez Mountains. Kasha-Katuwe means 'white cliffs' in Keresan, the traditional language of the nearby Pueblo de Cochiti. Delicately layered sand, gravel, volcanic ash, and tuff of the Peralta Tuff Member of the Bearhead Rhyolite and sand and gravel of the Cochiti Formation, which are older units (2 to 6 Ma) in the Jemez Mountain volcanic field, have been erodedinto fragile to robust spires with balanced rocks perched on top. The hoodoos, erosional cones, and pedestal rocks that characterize Tent Rocks form as the result of differential erosion.

Angel Peak National Recreation Area

Angel Peak, a 7000-foot pinnacle capped by sandstone, is a prominent landmark near Bloomfield in northwestern New Mexico. It is in the northern part of the San Juan Basin, a large structural depression that formed starting about 75 million years ago during compressional Laramide deformation. The San Juan Basin was surrounded by mountainous uplifts to the north (now buried by the 35 to 20 Ma San Juan volcanic field in southwestern Colorado) and to the east that also formed by Laramide-related compression. The sediments that can be seen at Angel Peak National Recreation area were eroded off of the old Laramide highlands and deposited in the basin 50 to 65 million years ago. More recently, over the course of the last 5 million years (or less), the westward-draining San Juan River, a tributary to the Colorado River, has eroded the rocks of the San Juan Basin. Drainages feeding into the San Juan River have carved the scenic landscape we see today.

Pecos National Historical Park

Pecos National Historical Park lies in the extreme western portion of San Miguel County, in the broad valley of the Pecos River where the river leaves its deep canyon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The timeless cycles of geologic history are on display in the ancient and modern river deposits in the park. The spectacular cliffs of sedimentary rocks on Glorieta Mesa to the south and the rugged mountains to the north provide a beautiful geologic setting for the ruins and contain rocks that record shifting shorelines and the birth and erosion of mountains.

The site is of enormous cultural and historical significance. The pueblo here was occupied at least as early as 1450. The Coronado Expedition passed through here in 1541 en route to the Great Plains. Spanish missionaries followed soon thereafter. In 1621 the Franciscans built the adobe church whose ruins tower over the park today. In 1680 the Pueblo Revolt put an end to the efforts of the church throughout northern New Mexico; the priest at Pecos was killed and the church laid waste. The site was occupied by the Pecos Indians until 1838.

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Storrie Lake State Park

Storrie Lake State Park is located four miles north of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and can be reached via New Mexico Highway 518. The 1400-foot long earthen dam that retains the water in Storrie Lake was built under the direction of Robert C. Storrie starting in 1916. Water from the Gallinas River, a southeasterly-flowing river with its headwaters in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the main water supply for the community of Las Vegas, is diverted for storage in Storrie Lake. The park offers camping, boating, fishing, beaches, and other water-related activities.

Storrie Lake State Park lies on the boundary between two important physiographic provinces, the Southern High Plains and the Southern Rocky Mountains. The lake is on the High Plains just east of the Rincon Range portion of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a sub-province of the Southern Rocky Mountains.

Tyrone Mine

The Tyrone mining district, the second largest porphyry copper deposit in New Mexico, is located 10 miles southwest of Silver City in the Burro Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. Native Americans initially mined turquoise from the area around 600 AD. Underground mining was established in the early 1860s and the current mode of mining, open-pit stripping, began in 1968. The mine became part of Freeport-McMoRan in 2007. Parts of the pit are currently being reclaimed.

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From wide open green spaces to state-of-the art facilities, our main campus and regional locations offer the perfect backdrop for shaping tomorrow's leaders.

Nick and Cathy Dunagan Alumni Center

The UT Martin Dunagan Alumni Center serves as a friendly, welcoming place for alumni and friends to visit and relax on campus.

Blaylock Inspiration Oracle

The Oracle is designed as an open-air Greek Parthenon that will serve as a reflection area for students, alumni and visitors, an outdoor classroom, and a meeting space.

Boling University Center

The community center of the university.

C.E. Brehm Agriculture & Biology Hall

Home to the Department of Agriculture, Geosciences and Natural Resources and Biological Sciences.

Cooper Hall

A living learning community where students with shared academic majors or lifestyle interests live and collaborate.

Joseph E. Johnson Engineering & Physical Sciences Building

Home to the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

Fine Arts Building

Home to the Department of Music and the Departments of Visual and Theatre Arts.

Located in the heart of the Quad, Gooch Hall is a primary center for academic and community enrichment.

Hardy Graham Stadium

The home field of Skyhawk football.

Latimer-Smith Engineering and Science Building

The 120,000-square-foot, three-story Latimer-Smith Engineering and Science Building features STEM classrooms, laboratories, office spaces, and a small observatory.

Parsons Center

A technologically advanced facility that includes general classroom space, a nursing lab,conference room, computer lab, student lounge, bookstore, science lab, administrative offices, library and distance-learning classroom.

Paul Meek Library

A central hub for learning, study, meeting with friends, and for hanging out.

Ripley Center

The UT Martin Ripley Center offers a variety of undergraduate courses supporting bachelor’s degree requirements in more than 80 specialized programs.

Selmer Center

The University of Tennessee at Martin, in cooperation with McNairy County and the City of Selmer, established the UT Martin McNairy County Center/Selmer.

Somerville Center

The UT Martin Somerville Center offers a variety of general education and other undergraduate courses supporting bachelor’s degree requirements in more than 80 specialized programs.

Student Recreation Center

Our light-filled, state-of-the-art student recreation center is a hub for fitness, clubs, intramurals and more.

The Quad / Arboretum

The Quad anchors our campus. A place for scenic views, daily travels, and impromtu gatherings.

University Village

Student residence featuring one, two, three and four bedroom apartments.

Wildwood Farm

Future home of hands-on teaching and demonstration laboratory in agricultural sciences.

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