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Southern Ute Indian Tribe · southern ute · Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado · Nuche · Caputa · MouacheSouthern Ute Indian Tribe
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- Official name
- Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado
- Recorded status
- Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
- Region
- Colorado
In the record
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Southern Ute Indian Tribe: Ute: the 1868 Colorado reservation, Brunot (1873), the 1880 Act, 1881 removal, and Hagen v. Utah (1994).
This nation carries the history of Ute in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Self-names
- NucheUte
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 10, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 449)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 450)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 451)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 452)1864
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, ceded 1873 (area 566)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, recorded 1868 (area 616)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, recorded 1868 (area 617)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, ceded 1882 (area 586)1875
- Land of the Uta (Muncho, Capote, Wiminuehi bands) in Colorado, ceded 1882 (area 609)1878
- Reservation of the Uta (Uncompahgre) in Utah (area 630)1882
Carries the treaty history of 1
Named in 1
Sources
- Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
- southernute-nsn.gov/history/reference work
Today, the Mouache and Caputa bands comprise the Southern Ute Tribe and are headquartered at Ignacio, Colorado.
Research notes
Named as "Southern Ute" in V039.
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