Stories tagged with Bird Red

The first annual New Year’s Bucket Bash took place at SunUte Community Center Saturday, Jan. 14. The New Year’s Bucket Bash had a great first-time turnout in terms of participants! The tournament was facilitated by Bird Red and Virgil Morgan, with support from SunUte staff.

Thu Jan 26th, 2023

New Year’s Bucket Bash!

Thu Dec 29th, 2022

Tribal youth hit the slopes in Telluride

Sun Ute Recreation staff held the Native American Indigenous Games (NAIG) update meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Sun Ute Recreation Center conference room. Recreation Manager, Virgil Morgan gave an update to families attending the 2023 NAIG in Halifax, Nova Scotia and opened the floor to questions. If you have missed the meeting and would like an update, please contact Virgil Morgan at 970-563-0214 ext. 2652 or Tara Vigil ext. 2667.

Fri Dec 2nd, 2022

SunUte presents NAIG update

Fri Oct 21st, 2022

Honoring all relations

Bird and Nana Red, a respected senior tribal couple, with daughter Effie Monte, await the beginning of the annual parade on a float that won First Place in the Non-Commercial Category on Saturday, September 13, 1975.

Fri Jul 15th, 2022

Celebrating 100 years of Tribal Fair: Parade

A small group of dancers and singers gave a Bear Dance presentation to the North American Indigenous Games NAIG Council Board of Directors. Top row, left to right; Lexy Young, Monika Lucero, Elisia Cruz, Cyrus Naranjo, and Noah Box. Bottom row, left to right; Thunder Windy Boy, Tim Ryder, and Bird Red.

Fri Jul 15th, 2022

SUIT welcomes NAIG Directors

Southern Ute tribal departments hosted the “End of School Year Bash” for all students, their families and friends, at the Piinu Nuuchi Skatepark, Saturday, May 21. SunUte Front Desk attendant Margaret Manzanares seems pleased with her cotton candy creation, while SunUte Recreation Coordinator, Bird Red and Southern Ute Museum Director, Susan Cimburek handle snowcone duties.

Sun Jun 5th, 2022

Ending school year with a BASH!

Ute relatives and friends gathered together in celebration of spring during this year’s Northern Ute Bear Dance held in Fort Duchesne, Utah. This year’s event was held Friday, May 13 through Monday, May 16. A Bear Dancer from the Ute Indian Tribe, Gavyn Vanderhoop, adjusts her hat, attempting to shade herself from the sun rays; temperatures reached the upper 80’s throughout the weekend.

Fri May 20th, 2022

Kicking up dust in Fort Duchesne

Yellow Jacket Singers of Ignacio, Colo. gathered as an invited guest drum at the 28th annual Northern Colorado Intertribal Powwow Association (NCIPA) Powwow — held Friday, April 8 through Sunday, April 10. This powwow is hosted at the Northside Aztlan Community Center in Fort Collins, Colo. offering singing, dancing, various artists, vendors, and hospitality.

Fri Apr 22nd, 2022

Powwow time in Fort Collins

Songs filled the Southern Ute Multi-Purpose Facility, as singers brought in the New Year as traditionally done in prior years – aside from the 2020 shutdown due to the coronavirus.

Fri Jan 14th, 2022

A new beginning with songs

Southern Ute Veterans, Raymond Baker and Rudly Weaver don headdresses during a Veterans ceremony in Durango, Colo. in October of 2018.

Fri Nov 5th, 2021

Why We Serve, Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

League Champions, “Big Bodiez,” top row: Kelsey Frost, Deja Herrera, RC Lucero, Bird Red, Heather Baker, Tasha Herrera, Tim Ryder, Patrick Littlebear, Melanie Tsosie, Bottom: Monika Lucero, DJ Pacheco, Jason Carmenoros, Allec Rodriquez, Tawnie Knight.

Fri Nov 5th, 2021

Big Bodiez takes championship

Symbolically flashing a peace sign, Christina Herrera leaves the Ignacio School parking lot for the last time as a Senior Bobcat.

Fri Jun 5th, 2020

A graduation like no other

Fri Jun 5th, 2020

Honoring our 2020 Graduates

Inclusion in the Bobcat boys’ starting lineup seemed a hair-raising experience for hungry junior Triston Thompson (11) prior to IHS’ Class 2A State Championships ‘Great Eight’ game versus Ault Highland inside the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colo. Thursday, March 12.

Sat Mar 28th, 2020

Curtailed by COVID: Boys’ season cut short

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