{"id":38725,"date":"2022-08-26T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T02:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-announces-candidates-for-chairman-and-council\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:46:11","slug":"ute-mountain-ute-tribe-announces-candidates-for-chairman-and-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-announces-candidates-for-chairman-and-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain Ute tribe announces candidates for chairman and council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d070e885-7b28-4463-90f3-a680b5517a4d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1283\" alt=\"The Ute Mountain Ute tribe will hold an election on Oct. 14. (Journal file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ute Mountain Ute tribe will hold an election on Oct. 14. (Journal file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Candidates have been announced for the Ute Mountain Ute election Oct. 14 in Towaoc.<\/p>\n<p>The election is for tribal chairman and for three seats on the Tribal Council, including the White Mesa seat. Terms are for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Terms are up for Chairman Manuel Heart, Vice Chairman Archie House Jr., Councilman Darwin Whiteman Jr. and Councilman Malcolm Lehi, representing White Mesa.<\/p>\n<p>Six candidates are running for tribal chairman. They are Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, Angelita Berry, Manuel Heart, Davis Wing, Harold Cuthair and Selwyn Whiteskunk.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen 14 candidates running for the two open council seats representing the Colorado reservation, based in Towaoc.<\/p>\n<p>They are Mark Wing, Archie House Jr., Kenneth Bancroft, Quinton Jacket, Helen Munoz, Priscilla Blackhawk, Darwin Whiteman Jr., Myron Cuthair, Leland Collins Sr., Conrad Jacket, Adrian Laner Sr., Colleen Cuthair-Root, Prisllena Nightstar and Jacalyn Colorow.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates for council seat representing the White Mesa, Utah tribal community are Malcolm Lehi and Suzette Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Election voting is open to all enrolled tribal members age 18 and up. Voters must have a current ID at the polling place, the Community Center in Towaoc. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All enrolled members living off the reservation who would like to vote must request an official notarized absentee ballot. Contact the election board at (970) 564-5635 ext. 659.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Election Committee is seeking two alternates for White Mesa, and one alternate for Towoac. Letters of interest are due to Executive Director John Trocheck by Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-25669205336f027d8531931b79b8f261\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>candidates running for chairman; 14 running for two council seats <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,547],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-ute-mountain-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38725","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=38725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84107,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38725\/revisions\/84107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38725"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}