In the years leading up to Colorado statehood, nearly all of the territory’s western half still belonged to the Ute people, who had inhabited the northern Colorado Plateau for centuries. An 1868 ...

The Ute Indian Tribe argued that it had compensable title over 1.5 million of its total 1.9 million acres in northeastern Utah because the federal government never sold the land.

In the years leading up to Colorado statehood, nearly all of the territory’s western half still belonged to the Ute people, ...