Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Southern Ute, Ute Mountain tribes to receive funding for water, sanitation improvements

will go toward 7 projects this year

Fun times at the Ute Mountain Roundup rodeo in Cortez

Ute Mountain Roundup rodeo on Thursday night at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride

Bear Dance Fire sparks east of Ignacio; power cut to about 2,500 customers

torches about 20 acres of brush willow and cottonwood trees

Fines for Colorado schools with Native mascots begin in June. But who will enforce them?

a dozen schools have been warned by commission about appropriating imagery

Colorado will have an office for cases of murdered, missing Indigenous people

Gov. Jared Polis said he will sign Senate Bill 150 into law after weeks of negotiations with lawmakers, tribal representatives

Plan for Towaoc grocery store gets a boost

embarks on a capital campaign to raise $12 million to address food desert

La Plata County signs agreement to expand broadband

COVID-19 money will support the development of fiber along Colorado Highway 151 to Ignacio

EPA approves the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water quality standards

Approval is the culmination of a 20-year effort

Law gives Southwest Colorado’s American Indian tribes a voice at state Capitol

will be invited each year to address Legislature

Three bills aim to improve communication, access to grants for Southwest Colorado’s tribes

Sen. Kerry Donovan hopes to shift state’s relationship with sovereign nations

Tribes assert water rights on Colorado River Basin

1922 compact that divided resources between states left out Native Americans

La Plata, Montezuma counties receive over $11 million in federal earmarks

Funding will go toward housing, transportation, law enforcement and other projects

Four Corners Prayer Run advocates for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Runners and advocates soldiered through Cortez Friday and Saturday

Four Corners Prayer Run stops in Cortez for rest and refueling

Participation grew as the 232-mile run progressed through area towns

Firefighters save a cat, two dogs; dilapidated house is demolished

started Tuesday evening southeast of Bayfield

Documentary explores how CDOT and tribes partnered to preserve Indigenous culture and history

A centuries-old Puebloan village was discovered during the realignment of U.S. Highway 550

A future of drought? Ute Mountain Ute Tribe looks at life with less water

Limited water supply consolidated to keep corn crop and flour mill operating; jobs lost, canal payment assistance requested

EPA stops White Mesa mill from receiving toxic waste from uranium sites

Mountain Utes say company might be polluting well water

Former executive of Southern Ute Indian Tribe sentenced to 13½ years in prison for sexual assault

Walton worked as executive officer until time of arrest

Ute Mountain language gets revival with voiced dictionary

chairman: Dictionary will ‘fill in the gap from the boarding school era’

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe dedicates new charter school

Kwiyagat Community Academy blends Ute culture and language with academics

Head-on crash causes fatality south of Cortez, says state patrol

happened Sunday on U.S. 491

Are these trees ‘culturally modified’ … or just bent? Depends on whom you ask.

tribes say their ancestors had no need to bend trees to provide direction

Marchers rally to remove cartoonish depiction of Native American in Durango

100 participate in Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage

Colorado attorney general plots path forward in opioid crisis during Durango visit

enforcement, health professions hold workshop to discuss funding and programming options

Southern Utes approve return to stricter public health rules

Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council approved moving to the more restrictive Phase 2 Safer at Home Level 1 Order as…

A new school opens where students can embrace Native American culture

‘Once you have a whole child, the test scores will come,’ head of school says

First day at new Ute Mountain Ute charter school

This tribal elder helped remove 157-year-old proclamations used to incite Sand Creek Massacre

Rick Williams stumbled on a horrifying fact, he set out to change it

Southern Ute Indian Tribe joins international natural gas initiative

exports gas to countries looking for lower-emitting fuels