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Bayfield High School graduate Brianna Goodtracks-Alires accepts a Pendleton blanket from Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council Lady Ramona Y. Eagle (left) and Chairman Jimmy R. Newton Jr. (right) during the Education & Johnson O’Malley Annual Banquet on Saturday, June 22 at the Sky Ute Casino Resort.

Education Top Stories

Education Department celebrates graduates of all levels

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Hundreds of students, families and friends filled the gym at the Southern Ute Montessori Head Start building on Wednesday, May 29 to celebrate the graduating students. To close the ceremony, the students and their teachers performed a round dance together while local drum group Yellow Jacket sang.

Education

Head Start buds blossom

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Members of the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council toasted teachers and Education Department staff during a lunch at the Sky Ute Casino Resort on Wednesday, May 29. Councilman Alex S. Cloud said the future of the tribe is in good hands.

Education

Council honors educators

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Elliott Hendren was on hand for Chipeta Day to conduct a lesson about Southern Ute culture and present a film, "Ute Women," to attendees at the Ute Museum in Montrose, Colo. Hendren said knowing where you're going and being a strong person is important to Utes. Hendren's aunt is Lucinda Cloud.

Culture

Montrose event remembers Chipeta

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Pictured (left to right): Program Specialist Augusta Burch, Rocha, Council Lady Ramona Y. Eagle and board member Hilda Burch pose for a photo after presenting Rocha with a Pendleton blanket.

Boys & Girls Club

Club kicks off summer, bids farewell to leader

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News

Simple marketing using the Internet and email

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Chairman Jimmy R. Newton Jr.

News Top Stories

In D.C., tribe testifies on impediments to tribal energy development

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News

Tribal member sees business opportunity at home

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News

Tribal members, staff partner on Lands Acquisition Team

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News

Fire restrictions to take effect June 18 on reservation

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Members of the Boys & Girls Club of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s PeaceJam program meet with the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council on Tuesday, June 11 to be congratulated on receiving a certificate of recognition from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the program’s work on “Keep It Sacred,” a film about the various uses of tobacco.

Boys & Girls Club Top Stories

Federal gov’t recognizes club for ‘Keep It Sacred’ film

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News

Range units help tribal members keep livestock fed year-round

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Southern Ute elder Lynda Grove-D’Wolf demonstrated her Ute language teaching CDs before a crowd at the Multi-purpose Facility on Thursday, May 23.

Culture

Teaching Ute in 2013

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One particularly challenging race involved students handing a balloon covered in shaving cream to each other.

Education

SUIMA students get wet & wild

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Angela Baker

Bobcats of the Month

Bobcats of the month: May 31, 2013

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News

Chairman’s report: May 2013

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Education

SUCAP hosts after-prom party

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Southern Ute Indian Tribal Councilman Alex Cloud accepts an award from Culture Department Director Elise Redd on behalf of his grandfather, Bonny Kent, who died in 1989.

News

Ute Nations Day honors men of service

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Southern Ute veteran Austin Box carrying the United States flag and Southern Ute veteran Jack Frost Jr. carrying the Southern Ute tribal flag bookend the eagle staffs during a grand entry of the Southern Ute Bear Dance Powwow on Saturday, May 25 at the Sky Ute Fairgrounds.

Culture

Nations dance together at Bear Dance Powwow

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Edward Box III and Jake Ryder sing Bear Dance songs for the PBS film crew working on “The First Coloradans,” a documentary about the Ute people set to air Thursday, June 13.

Culture

PBS to air documentary on Utes

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Southern Ute Chairman Jimmy R. Newton Jr. talks with Winterfawn Rey, caretaker of the Redding Ranch property for the past several years, on the porch of the ranch’s cabin on Monday, May 20.

Top Stories Tribal Council

Southern Ute leaders tour Redding Ranch

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Education Top Stories

Floyd scholarship goes to Ayona Hight

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The Southern Ute Veterans Association honors men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces with a Day of Remembrance ceremony and procession on Memorial Day 2012. This year’s Day of Remembrance will be Monday, May 27, beginning at 10 a.m. The ceremonies will begin at the Southern Ute Veterans Memorial Park in Ignacio, proceed to the Bear Dance Bridge, overlooking the Pine River, and continue to the Ouray Cemetery.

News

A salute to our Southern Ute troops

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Robin Duffy-Wirth (center), fitness manager at the SunUte Community Center, instructs members of the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council and their staff on lifesaving CPR techniques during a training in the Leonard C. Burch Building on Wednesday, May 1.

Health

Council members learn CPR

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