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Ute Tribal Paths
Ute Timeline after European Contact
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1847 CE
Settlers Arrive
1847 CE
Mormon settlers led by Brigham Young entered the Salt Lake Valley in what is now the state of Utah. As more and more settlers entered Ute homelands, U...
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1848 CE
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848 CE
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War. The Ute homeland is now part of the land claimed from Mexico by the United States
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1849 CE
1st Treaty
1849 CE
The first official treaty between the Utes and the United States is signed at Abiquiu. Twenty-eight Ute leaders sign the treaty, which gives the Unite...
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1859 CE
Gold Discovered
1859 CE
Gold was discovered in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. A trickle of pioneers became a torrent. Within two years, as many as 30,000 people had overr...
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1861 CE
Reservation
1861 CE
Based on advice from leaders in the Utah Territory, President Lincoln sets the Uintah Valley in eastern Utah aside as a Ute Reservation for the Uintah...
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1868 CE
Treaty of 1868
1868 CE
Ute leaders from all seven bands sign the Treaty of 1868, creating a protected reservation covering 20 million acres in western Colorado. In exchange ...
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1873 CE
Brunot Agreement
1873 CE
The Utes cede the San Juan Mountain mining area and traditional homelands under the Brunot Agreement.
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1874 CE
Land
1874 CE
President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Brunot Agreement, and thousands of Ute lands are now appropriated by the U.S. government
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Gold in San Juan Mountains
1874 CE
Miners demand access to gold and silver deposits in the San Juan Mountains. U.S. representatives force the Utes to sell about one-fourth of the 1868 r...
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1879 CE
White River Agency
1879 CE
Nathan Meeker requests military reinforcements at the White River Agency. Major Thomas T. Thornburgh and a party of officers traveling to Ute territor...
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Removal
1879 CE
"The Utes Must Go!” becomes the public outcry over the events at White River, and the Ute people are removed from more of their homeland.
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Meeker
1879 CE
Nathan Meeker is killed at the White River Agency. Meeker showed little respect for the Ute people, treating them with contempt and trying to change t...
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1880 CE
Ute Delegation in Washington
1880 CE
Ouray travels to Washington, D.C., for treaty negotiations. The three Northern Ute bands—the Yampa, Uncompahgre and Grand River—are forced to leave Co...
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Chief Ouray
1880 CE
Chief Ouray dies. In the last sixteen years of his life, the Utes had lost nearly all of their once-vast Colorado territory.
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1881 CE
Utah Reservation
1881 CE
United States Army sends troops to move the Yamparica, Tabeguache and Parianuche Ute bands from Colorado to the reservation in Utah
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1887 CE
Dawes Act
1887 CE
The Dawes Act passed. It allowed the federal government to survey American Indian tribal land and break it up into individual pieces, or allotments, f...
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1891 CE
Fort Lewis Indian School
1891 CE
Fort Lewis in Alamosa, originally a military post, becomes an Indian school.
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1894 CE
Hunter Act
1894 CE
The portion of the Dawes Act specific to the Ute People, known as The Hunter Act, was presented to Congress. The Dawes Act changed the way Ute people ...
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1895 CE
Reservation Allotments
1895 CE
Ute allotment enforced by the U.S. Government. Reservations that were once owned by the whole tribe were broken up into small pieces that were owned b...
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