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Lawmakers heard from the chairmen of the Ute Mountain Ute and the Southern Ute during Colorado's annual State of the Tribes address.

A new MOU between the State of Colorado and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe creates additional guidelines and communication between Tribal leaders and CPW.

Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute officials are willing to forgo future water use to help conservation efforts in the overstretched Colorado River Basin if they’re paid for the effort. Listen to our host Michael Lyle Jr. discuss this story with The Colorado Sun reporter/editor Shane Mullane and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

The Southern Ute Fair marked its 102nd anniversary in Ignacio recently, with a blend of old and new traditions, including a heavy metal concert featuring an all-Indigenous lineup. Metal holds a special place in tribal communities.

The Interior Department is spending around $40 million in tribal communities to plug old oil and gas wells that have caused serious pollution.

By harvesting about 15 buffalo a year, the Ute Tribal Council's buffalo program is able to provide up to five pounds of free bison meat to each Southern Ute Tribal member household each month. The program reintroduces an important part of the Ute diet and way of life.

The Ute Mountain Ute tribe’s chairman, Manuel Heart, and the Southern Ute tribe’s chairman, Melvin J Baker, praised lawmakers for working with the tribes, but said they have also been left out of important legislation in the past.

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