Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

Ute Mountain Reservation
Reservation
Flag Seal
Location of the Ute Mountain Reservation
Constitution	1940
Seat of Government	Towaoc, Colorado
Government
• Body	Tribal Administration Department
• Chairman of the Tribal Administration Department	Harold Cuthair
Area
• Total	2,238 km2 (864 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	1,656
Time zone	MST/MDT
Website	[1]

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe /ˈjuːt/ (Ute dialect: Wʉgama Núuchi) is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.^[1]