Miss Southern Ute, Jazmine Carmenoros

Miss Southern Ute Quarterly Report Jazmin Carmenoros

Ute Mountain Ute elder, Alfred Wall Jr., Southern Ute elder, Elwood Kent and Justin “Bear” Lang sing songs celebrating the coming new year.

Celebrating a new year ­

Neida Chakee round dances with students from the elementary school at the Native American Heritage Month celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at the Ignacio High School.

Heritage dancing for the youth

Ute Veterans, attended the 140th anniversary of the Milk Creek Battle, on Sept. 28 of this year at the Milk Creek Battlefield Park outside of Meeker, Colo. The commemorative event was organized by the Rio Blanco County Historical Society, who extended the invitation to the Ute tribes. Members of the Northern Ute War Bonnet Society, Jonas Grant and Delbert Tavashutz were present, along with Southern Ute Veterans Association member, Dr. James Jefferson.

Milk Creek Battle anniversary

A young jingle dress dancer makes her way around the powwow arena during an intertribal.

DHS hosts Heritage Powwow ­

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