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They've lived in Colorado for nearly 700 years! The Utes are Colorado's longest residents.
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Utes took horses from the Hispanics. It made the Utes lives easier.
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He was the first European to set foot in Colorado.
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The Utes and the Comaches were cousins.
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The Arapahos and the Cheyennes had once lived as farmers near the Mississippi River.
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Pike and his men found a mountain now known as Pike's Peak, but he called it Grand Peak,
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At that time, beaver pelts, or skins with fur on them, were in great demand.
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The Fort had enough room for 200 people and 300 to 400 animals.
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The Hispanics were arch enimies to the Utes.
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The Meeker Massacre, as white people in Colorado called it, was a disaster for the Utes. "The Utes must go!" a Denver newspaper demanded.Most people agreed. As a result, the goverment forced the Utes to sign a new treaty. It removed the northern Ute band to Utah.
