Quotes About Utes

The Peyoteway, he knew, was an even newer thing, learned from the Utes.

I like the name. Tukuhnikivats—in the language of the Utes "where the sun lingers.

The Utes who live in Fort Duchesne today are very familiar with the stories about the Buffalo Soldiers and their interest in Freemasonry. A patch of ground that once was designated as the graveyard for the Buffalo Soldiers has since been covered over with houses built for Ute tribe members. And that's where things begin connecting to our story.

The tribe was promised that the reservation lands would belong to the Utes for all time. But within a few years, white settlers began to covet those lands for their own economic pursuits, so the boundaries of the Ute territory were slowly and inexorably carved into ever-smaller pieces.