2016
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 16-024
       
       
       BY SENATOR(S) Roberts, Aguilar, Baumgardner, Carroll, Cooke,
       Crowder, Donovan, Garcia, Grantham, Guzman, Heath, Hodge, Holbert,
       Jahn, Johnston, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Lambert, Lundberg, Marble,
       Martinez Humenik, Merrifield, Neville T., Newell, Scheffel, Scott,
       Sonnenberg, Steadman, Tate, Todd, Ulibarri, Woods, Cadman;
       also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Coram and Brown, Arndt, Becker K.,
       Buck, Buckner, Carver, Conti, Court, Danielson, DelGrosso, Duran,
       Esgar, Everett, Fields, Foote, Garnett, Ginal, Hamner, Humphrey, Joshi,
       Kagan, Klingenschmitt, Kraft-Tharp, Landgraf, Lawrence, Lebsock, Lee,
       Leonard, Lontine, Lundeen, McCann, Melton, Mitsch Bush, Moreno,
       Navarro, Neville P., Nordberg, Pabon, Pettersen, Primavera, Priola,
       Rankin, Ransom, Rosenthal, Roupe, Ryden, Saine, Salazar, Sias, Singer,
       Thurlow, Tyler, Van Winkle, Vigil, Willett, Williams, Wilson, Windholz,
       Winter, Wist, Young, Hullinghorst.
       
       
          CONCERNING THE REMEMBRANCE OF UTE HISTORY IN
       COLORADO, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, HONORING
       THE CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF THE SOUTHERN UTE
       INDIAN TRIBE AND THE UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBE. 
       
       
          WHEREAS, The original inhabitants of North America, American
       Indians, have played a unique and distinguished role in our nation's
       history and culture through vital contributions to government, medicine,
       education, religion, architecture, environment, and the military; and
       
          WHEREAS, The Ute Tribes are a confederation of seven bands:
       Moache, Capote, Weeminuche, Tabeguache, White River, Yampa, and
       Uintah bands that make up three tribal nations today; and
       
          WHEREAS, The state of Colorado recognizes its oldest continuous
       residents, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Ignacio, Colorado, and the
       Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Towaoc, Colorado; and
       
          WHEREAS, The state of Colorado recognizes the key role to the
       history of this state that the Ute Nations have provided and continue to
       provide; and
       
          WHEREAS, The state of Colorado continues to support the two
       Colorado Ute Tribes in their own efforts to increase public safety,
       education, health care, and economic development on their reservations
       while strengthening our state and tribal government-to-government
       relationship; and
       
          WHEREAS, The Ute Tribes, History Colorado Center, and the
       Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs established a precedent-setting
       state burial protocol that addresses the cultural sensitivities and awareness
       when dealing with Native American human remains; and
       
          WHEREAS, Today, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Southern Ute
       Indian Tribe are the largest employers of both Montezuma, La Plata, and
       Archuleta counties along with holdings on the eastern slope of Colorado
       and throughout the nation; and
       
          WHEREAS, The state of Colorado honors the contributions and
       sovereignty of both the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Southern Ute
       Indian Tribe and encourages its citizens to actively seek knowledge about
       the history and heritage of the Ute people in this state, past, present, and
       future; now, therefore,
       
          Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventieth General Assembly of the
       State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
       
          (1)  That we, the members of the General Assembly, celebrate and
       honor the rich and storied heritage of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and
       Ute Mountain Ute Tribe who have called Colorado and its neighboring
       states home since time immemorial; and
       
          (2)  That we endeavor to maintain strong, respectful relations between
       Colorado's state and local governments and the sovereign Indian nations
       with whom we share this state.
       
          
       Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent to
       Governor John Hickenlooper; Lieutenant Governor Joseph Garcia;
       Chairman Manuel Heart, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; and Chairman Clement
       Frost, Southern Ute Indian Tribe.
       
       
       
       
       
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       Bill L. Cadman               Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
       PRESIDENT OF                    SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
       THE SENATE                        OF REPRESENTATIVES
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Effie Ameen                           Marilyn Eddins
       SECRETARY OF                CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
       THE SENATE                        OF REPRESENTATIVES