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Also known as Utes, Ute people, Eastern Ute, Eutah, Eutaw, Northern Ute, Nú·čI, Nünt'z

Native American people in the United States

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Encyclopedic overview

Ute (/ˈjuːt/) are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico. Historically, their territory also included parts of Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and Arizona.

Their Ute dialect is a Colorado River Numic language, part of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.