{"id":106153,"date":"2016-03-21T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southern-ute-tribe-will-take-control-of-museum\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:39:22","slug":"southern-ute-tribe-will-take-control-of-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southern-ute-tribe-will-take-control-of-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Ute tribe will take control of museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nonprofit status for the Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum will dissolve, and the facility\u2019s assets will be turned over to the tribe.<\/span>Shaun Stanley\/Durango Herald file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tribal staff declined to comment and did not provide a news release, but the Southern Ute Drum posted the document on its website Friday.<\/p>\n

Since the museum opened in 2011 next to the Sky Ute Casino and Resort, the tribe has subsidized the nonprofit with $1 million each year on the condition that the museum board find a way to match the funds and achieve financial independence in five years. The museum was unable to meet that goal.<\/p>\n

Last fall, the agreement between the tribe and museum expired. Instead of closing the museum, tribal council and the museum board of directors have negotiated a transition agreement through which the tribe pays for some of the museum\u2019s liabilities in exchange for the collection, according to the release.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreserving our culture and our history is important to pass on to the future generations,\u201d said tribal council Chairman Clement J. Frost in the prepared statement. \u201cThe tribe has always been committed to supporting the museum and our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tribe\u2019s statement says both museum and tribal council agreed dissolution of the nonprofit was the best option, but museum staff told the Herald earlier this month that tribal management will thwart their jobs and the facility\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The timeline is unclear for dissolving the 501c3 and transferring assets to the tribe, but the museum board and staff members believe that collection owners will reclaim their items, leaving an empty building.<\/p>\n

The tribe has hired a museum consultant, Southern Ute tribal member Linda Baker, to assist with the transition and handle inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nonprofit status for the Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum will dissolve, and the facility\u2019s assets will be turned over to the tribe.Shaun Stanley\/Durango Herald file photo Tribal staff declined to comment and did not provide a news release, but the Southern Ute Drum posted the document on its website Friday. Since the museum opened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[13,638,629],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-library-and-museum","tag-southern-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106153"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}