Ute

Great Basin people

The Ute are an Indigenous people native to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions of what is now Colorado, Utah, and surrounding areas.

Utah takes its name from them.

Ute also refers to their Numic language.

As an adjective, it describes things relating to this people: Ute territory, Ute traditions. (Lowercase ute is Australian slang for a pickup truck.)

people

indigenous

Originating in a region

Great Basin · reservation · tribe · nation · beadwork · Paiute · Shoshone · Ignacio · tribal council · sovereignty

language

Paiute

Great Basin indigenous people

  • ComancheSouthern Plains indigenous nation
  • HopiPueblo people of Arizona
  • NahuatlUto-Aztecan language of Mexico

Colorado River · tonal · endangered · revitalization · speakers · dialect · oral tradition

Categories
Opposites
GEOGRAPHIC/CULTURAL REGION (Native American peoples)

UtePlains Indians

Native Americans of grasslands

Lakota · Sioux · Comanche · Cheyenne · Iroquois

VEHICLE TYPE (Australian usage)

Utesedan

Enclosed passenger car

saloon · hatchback · coupe · limousine · station wagon

subsistence pattern

UteHopi

Pueblo people of Arizona

Zuni · buffalo hunters

Phrases
Family

utensil

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G