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MAY 23, 2000

The Northern Ute Tribe, based in Fort Duchesne, Utah, wants to resume hunting rights in Colorado guaranteed to them in an 1874 agreement between the United States. The state of Colorado objects to their request, citing that the Brunot Agreement was abrogated when the Ute killed settlers in 1879, breaking the "at peace" provision of the agreement. The Northern Ute were removed from Colorado to Utah in 1880.

However, the state has agreements with two Colorado-based Ute Tribes regarding the same agreement. The Ute Mountain Utes and the Southern Ute Tribe regained hunting rights in the area in 1978.

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Tribe seeks hunting rights (The Denver Post 5/23)