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Inside the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s Bold Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

How the Ute Mountain Ute tribe’s race to protect its sovereign nation from the COVID-19 pandemic transformed its southwestern Colorado reservation, members, and leadership—forever. Manuel Heart sat in ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Artists from a Ute tribe break their silence on a century-old tragedy

After more than a century of silence, seven artists and members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are working to illuminate a part of the community’s past that hasn’t been talked about — when white ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

The Ute Tribe’s kids have been failed by the public school system more than any other students in Utah. Read part 1 of series.

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a three-part series about how Utes students have been failed by educators for decades. Read the second part here. The third part is available here. Whiterocks ...
The Durango Herald

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe receives funding to plan water pipeline from Cortez

Lawmakers urged Bureau of Reclamation for water project funds after denying water rights compensation WASHINGTON – The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe received $7.5 million for a new design of a pipeline that ...