About Us

The Culture and Language Department is to improve our Language to all ages, and our Culture. For next one to five years as it moves toward it's vision. It will strengthen the culture identity and awareness of the Ute Mountain Adult population.

 

Culture and Language includes:

  • Ute Language for Head Start and Toddlers ages 2-5 year olds, for hour and half, three days a week .
  • Adult evening classes for hour and half .
  • Culture evening classes, teaching bead work, cradle board making class, moccasin making class and what they would like to learn to make.
  • Ute Culture and Heritage that exist within or Ute Mountain Ute Tribe members, like Bear Dance, Pow Wow, and Sun Dance .
  • Teaching the Youth about who we are as Ute Mountain Tribe, where are Ancestors came from .
  • Southern Ute and Ute Mountain worked on Ute Curriculum for 4th grade.

Cultural/Language Program

Towaoc, Colorado 81334

Monday to Friday

7:30 am to 5:00 pm

 

 

Resources:

https://dictionary.utelanguage.org/

We Are Nuchu

About the Reservation

The Ute Mountain Ute Reservation is located in the Four Corners region of the United States. The majority of the reservation consist of lands about 553,008 acres in Montezuma and La Plata Counties, Colorado and San Juan County, New Mexico.

All of these lands are held in trust by the U.S. Government. The Ute Mountain Ute Reservation has substantial range, historical, and archaeological resources.

The Ute Mountain Ute Reservation is a Sovereign Nation.Currently the reservations has about 2,000+ residents.

Resource(s):

    - Geology & Resources of the Paradox Basin 1996

    - legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com

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Sovereign Nation

Employment

We elect to practice our Sovereign rights and use TRIBAL PREFERENCE – To Qualified Individual In Following PRIORITY FOR EMPLOYMENT:

  1. ENROLLED TRIBAL MEMBER OF THE UMUT
  2. SO. & NO. UTE TRIBAL MEMBERS
  3. LEGAL SPOUSE OF UMUT
  4. OTHER FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED NATIVE AMERICAN

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Contact Us:

  • Phone:
    (970) 565-3751
  • Fax:
    (970) 564-5709
  • Address:
    125 Mike Wash Rd.
    Towaoc, CO 81334