Our Mission

Healing land injustice through relationships,

education, and tribal conservation

The Ute Land Trust (ULT) was established in 2018 by the Business Committee of the Ute Indian Tribe to assist in the healing of the deep wounds left by the injustice of the violent removal of the Ute Indian Tribe from ancestral lands in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. The hope is that ULT will reconnect the people of these lands by engaging with other tribes, federal, state, and local governments to partner in land stewardship and traditional conservation efforts.

Goals

Returning ancestral land to the Ute Tribe through donations of land as well as through cultural and conservation easements.

Highlighting Tribal conservation as one of the original and most present leaders in honoring and respecting our environment

Reclaiming traditional Ute knowledge to heal the people, the community, and the earth we walk on

History

from time immemorial…

The original reach of the ancestral home of the Ute Indian Tribe stretched across the present states of Utah and Colorado, and into northern sections of New Mexico and Arizona. The Ute Indians were the first native peoples to make wide use of the horse, obtained from trading with early Spanish explorers and settlers along the old Ute Trail, later called the Spanish Trail and Santa Fe Trail, allowing the Ute people to cover large areas. In the 1860’s and the 1880’s, various bands of Ute Indians were forced from the lands they called home in today’s Utah and Colorado into an area a fraction of the size they once roamed, land that came to be known as the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, centered in Fort Duchesne, Utah.

from the indian new deal to the present

The Ute Indian Tribe adopted their own constitution and created the Tribe’s Business Committee following the mandate of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. In 1944, the Ute Indian Tribe was a founding participant at the first conference of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). The conference was held…