Southern Ute tribal members, Howard Richards Sr. (left) with the Ignacio Police Department, and Dewitte Baker of Southern Ute Fish & Game Dept. catch up outside of the Recreation Hall adjacent to Ute Park, circa 1984.

Vietnam Battlefront – Southern Ute Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Army, Tim Watts photographed in 1970, right before “going into hell,” as he remembers it, with the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division as they fought in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam. Pictured here, Watts is sitting with the two rifles he would carry into battle that day, an M16 and an “over and under” with a grenade launcher.