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From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Leg and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American background is incomplete with no addition of the Local Americans that resided on the continent before Western european settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Because the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokees, and Navajos have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with the history, vocabulary, and culture. In Charles River Editors' Native American Tribes series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the annals and culture of North America's most well-known native tribes in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. The Utes are a Native American people who live today in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, plus they currently have the second-largest Indian booking in the United States: the 1.2 million acre Uintah and Ouray Reservation situated in northeastern Utah. The Southern Ute Reservation in southwestern Colorado takes in another 681,000 acres, as the Ute Pile Ute Reservation, generally in southwestern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico, has 553,000 acres. However, these holdings are relatively small fragments of the initial Ute land platform; before the appearance of whites and the taking of the Utes' land, they extended from the Great Basin of Utah through the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and north New Mexico in to the Great Plains. The Utes were a brutal warrior people who fought hard to guard their land against Spaniards and later the Us citizens, but they stay much less well-known on the list of American consumer than the Navajos, (holders of the biggest booking today) and many other Native American nations.