The nonprofit Breckenridge History recently unveiled its latest exhibit — “Seasons of the Nuche: Transitions of the Ute People” — at the Breckenridge Welcome Center located at 203 S Main St. in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... IGNACIO — How do you make a building that tells a story? Not simply houses a story like the new Southern Ute museum might have done, but one that actually ...

A research effort launched in 2022 by the state of Colorado to better understand the physical and emotional toll federal boarding schools had on the Native American population kicked off a dialogue on ...

It looks like a bristling, metal tepee poking out of the desert — and it's utterly spectacular. The brand new Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center in Ignacio, Colo. cost $38 million. It's meant to ...

At Mesa Verde National Park, a trailside sign invites visitors to gaze across the canyon at a stone-masonry tower on the neighboring Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. The sign describes the history of the ...

Colorado Mountain College in Rifle unveiled a mural Thursday evening honoring the Ute people who lived in the area before settlers arrived in the late 1800s. The mural depicts the four seasons — ...

An 1899 portrait of Ute Chief Severo (back left) and some family members from the Written on the Land exhibit. Photo courtesy of History Colorado The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life ...

MONTROSE — Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk recalls annual trips to the Montrose area and the Ute Indian Museum south of Montrose on U.S. Highway 550. She and her siblings played in the artisan foundation that ...

A traditional Ute bear dance ceremony. The Utes are some of Colorado's oldest residents — by some estimates, the tribe has been here for 13,000 years. Despite that, many Coloradans today may not ...

Frost, a Southern Ute who works as a consultant on Ute history, sacred sites and Indian treaties, among other specialties, said he heard of the plans to cut down the Council Tree two days beforehand ...