biography
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| biography:
| Uncompaghre Ute chief, born at Taos in present-day New Mexico, USA. Raised among Mexicans, he spoke Spanish as well as his Ute language and English, and in 1862 became chief of the Uncompaghre. In 1863 he negotiated a treaty with the USA, ceding all of the Utes' territory E of the Continental Divide but making him chief of the Western Ute. In 1867, with Kit Carson, he suppressed a revolt led by Kaniatse, a rival chief. The esteem in which he was held by both sides helped avert a war after an incident in 1879 involving the murder of several whites. In 1880 he signed a treaty in Washington, DC, providing for the final removal of the Utes from Colorado to Utah. |
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