The museum's eighth annual Living Earth Festival features programs and activities on environmental issues, active lifestyles and the importance of Native foods in our diets. The festival features ...

Spring officially arrived on March 20. As we all know, different people around the world celebrate the new season in many ways. In Utah, our Native Ute Tribespeople have their own spring tradition ...

The low grumble of thunder can signify a lot of things, like imminent rain, lightning and – run! In the Ute culture, it means the start of spring. Because thunder mimics the sound of a roaring bear, ...

The Southern Ute Bear Dance Pow Wow will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 24-25, at Sun Ute Community Center, 390 Mouache Circle, Ignacio. The pow wow will feature the Gourd Dance at 5 p.m. on ...

In early September, my Ute Mountain Ute community in White Mesa celebrated our annual Bear Dance — three days of festivities, prayer and traditional Ute songs, which helped put Kwiyagtu, the Bear, to ...

The Southern Ute reservation is in southwestern Colorado. For the Living Earth Festival, the Southern Ute Bear Dancers demonstrate the bear dance, a courtship dance in which the women chose the ...