Ute Indian Rights Settlement

The Northern Ute Tribe is one of three ethnically-related Ute Tribes.[1] The Northern Ute Tribe occupies and administers the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. The population of the Northern Ute Tribe is approximately 3,500.

In 1965, the Northern Ute Tribe agreed to allow the United States Bureau of Reclamation to divert a portion of its water from the Uinta Basin (part of the Colorado River Basin) to the Great Basin. The diversion would provide water supply for the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. In exchange, the Bureau of Reclamation agreed to plan and construct the Unitah, Upalco, and Ute Indian Units of the Central Utah Project to provide storage of the Tribe's water. By 1992, the Bureau of Reclamation had made little or no progress on construction of these facilities. To compensate the Tribe for the Bureau of Reclamation's failure to meet its 1965 construction obligations, Title V of the Central Utah Project Completion Act (P.L. 102-575), enacted in 1992, contains the Ute Indian Rights Settlement. Under the settlement, the Northern Tribe received $49.0 million for agricultural development, $29.5 million for recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement, and $125 million for economic development. The Ute Indian Rights Settlement is administered by the United States Department of the Interior.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Dutton, Bertha P. (1994). American Indians of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-585-18725-8. OCLC 44963356.

## See also[edit]

* Uinta Indian Irrigation Project

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Ute people

Overview|

* Native Americans in the United States
* Ute dialect
* Ute mythology

Historic bands
within contemporary
groups|

| Northern|

* San Pitch
* Seuvarits
* Timpanogos
* Uncompahgre (Tabeguache)
* Uintah
* White River Utes (Parianuche, Yampa)

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Southern|

* Capote
* Muache

Ute Mountain|

* Weeminuche

Integrated with
the Paiute|

* Moanunts
* Pahvant

Culture and
religion|

| Ceremonies
and religion|

* Native American Church
* Sun Dance

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Ancestral lands
and trails|

* Bears Ears National Monument
* Cañon Pintado
* Mineral springs at Manitou Springs
* Old Ute Trail (later Old Spanish Trail)
* Spring Creek Archeological District
* Ute Mountain Ute Mancos Canyon Historic District
* Ute Pass

Notable people|

* Black Hawk (leader during the Black Hawk War)
* Chipeta (Ouray's wife and Ute delegate)
* Colorow (Ute chief)
* Chief Ignacio (Weeminuche band chief)
* Chief Jack House (last traditional chief)
* R. Carlos Nakai (flutist)
* Nicaagat (leader during Battle of Milk Creek)
* Chief Ouray (Uncompahgre band leader)
* Polk (Ute-Paiute chief)
* Posey (Ute-Paiute chief)
* Joseph Rael (dancer, author, and spiritualist)
* Sanpitch (Sanpete tribe chief)
* Raoul Trujillo (performer)
* Chief Walkara, also called Chief Walker (leader during the Walker War)

Westward expansion
and conflicts|

* American Indian Wars § West of the Mississippi (1811–1924)
* Ute Wars (1848–1923)
* Walker War (1853)
* Colorado War (1863–1865)
* Black Hawk War (1865–72)
* Meeker Massacre (1879)

Reservations|

* Southern Ute (Southwestern Colorado)
* Uintah and Ouray (Northern Ute Tribe, Utah)
* Ute Mountain Tribe (West-southwest Colorado)

Related articles|

* Indian Reorganization Act
* List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
* Prehistory of Colorado
* Ute Indian Museum
* Ute Indian Rights Settlement

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