While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
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for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Colorado. A. White River
Ute chief, leader in the
outbreak of 1879. The Ute agent, N. C. Meeker, an enthusiast who believed that
he could readily inure the Indians to labor, interested himself in the internal
quarrels of the tribe and thus incurred the resentment of Colorado's faction. He
removed the agency to their favorite pasture lands, but when he attempted to
make a beginning of agricultural operations they stopped the plowing by force.
They were hunters and did not care to learn farming. Troops under Maj. T. T.
Thornburgh were dispatched at the request of Meeker, but after a parley the
Indians understood that they would not enter the reservation. When they
nevertheless advanced, Colorado, or Colorow, as he was popularly called, led one
of the parties that ambushed the command and killed Thornburgh and many of his
men on Sept. 29, 1879. Others then massacred employees of the agency and made
captives of some of the women. The Ute head chief, Ouray, induced the Indians to
cease hostilities before the arrival of reinforcements.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
