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Construction on the Sun Bear Solar Farm is set to start later in 2024 and will need more than 500 laborers and electricians.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife reached an agreement to collect the wolves in Washington for release sometime next winter. But the tribe says Colorado didn't consult with them about wolf reintroduction or the consequences it could have for tribal ranchers.
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The park is almost double the size of nearby Mesa Verde National Park. It includes dozens of archaeological sites, well-preserved cliff dwellings, pottery sherds, and art on canyon walls. The park requires visitors to travel with a Ute Mountain Ute guide.
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Tribal attorneys nationwide are concerned about a recent Supreme Court ruling on Navajo Nation water rights. An attorney for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe says the ruling calls into question the trustee relationship between tribes and the federal government.
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The mood about Kwiyagat Community Academy is upbeat though there are challenges finding licensed teachers in this remote corner of Colorado.
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To help reduce high rates of diabetes and obesity, tribe leaders are working to raise $12 million by 2024 to help build the new community enterprise.
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The tribe plans to build a 600-megawatt hydroelectric pump.
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The Ute Mountain Ute tribe of Southwest Colorado is turning to solar generation to provide cheap electricity for its members and infrastructure. But it also has solar ambitions that go beyond the community level. As Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Lucas Brady Woods reports, they include generating solar power that can be sold for a profit.
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Gov. Jared Polis’ executive order reverses two proclamations that led to the massacre of 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people in 1864. Representatives and leaders from the Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Arapaho, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, and Lakota, tribes attended the ceremony outside the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
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Hay and corn production is down, and the Ute Mountain Ute Farm & Ranch Enterprise had to let go 50% of its employees, half of whom are tribal members who live in Towaoc, the tribe's headquarters and main town on their reservation.