Also known as Utes, Ute people, Eastern Ute, Eutah, Eutaw, Northern Ute, Nú·čI, Nünt'z
Native American people in the United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Citizenship
- United States
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Mexico
- Image
- Utes chief Severo and family, 1899.jpg
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- language used
- Colorado River Numic
- Commons category
- Ute
- different from
- Jutes
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Encyclopedic overview
Ute (/ˈjuːt/) are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico. Historically, their territory also included parts of Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and Arizona.
Their Ute dialect is a Colorado River Numic language, part of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.