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Show 92 The Southern Utes 1747 Spanish carry on a campaign against the Capote Utes. 1752 c. Ute leaders, Chiquito, Don Tomas, and Barrigon meet with the governor of New Mexico. Spanish indicate a desire to cultivate trade with the Utes especially for deerskins and to avoid a confrontation with the Mouache, Capotes, and Chaguaguas. 1754 By this time, the Utes have driven out the Navajos in the upper San Juan drainage. 1754 Mouache Utes enter an alliance with the Jicarilla Apaches. 1760's Spanish-Ute relations friendly enough to permit Spanish trading ventures into Ute territory as far north as the Gunnison River. 1765 Juan Maria de Rivera leads first official Spanish expedition into south- western Colorado through lands of the Utes. 1770's Utes and Navajos at war with the Hopis. 1775 Second expedition into southwestern Colorado led by Rivera. 1776 Dominguez-Escalante expedition through Ute territory. Lands of the Utes mapped by Miera y Pacheco. 1778 Spanish law prohibits Spaniards and Christianized Indians from trading with the Utes. The ban was largely ineffectual since some traders continued to visit the Utes. 1779 Mouache Utes and Jicarilla Apaches joined New Mexico Governor Juan Bautista de Anza in a campaign against the Comanches. Comanche forces under Cuerno Verde were defeated. 1786 Utes represented by Chiefs Moara and Pinto protest the proposed peace treaty between the Comanches and the Spanish. However, at the insistence of Juan Bautista de Anza, they finally agreed. Peace negotiations were carried on at Pecos between the Mouache Utes, the Comanches, and the Spanish and a treaty was concluded. 1789 Treaty of peace between the Spanish and Utes and promise of Ute aid against the Comanches and Navajos. At this time also, the Spanish took precautions against an alliance between the Mouache Utes and the Lipan Apaches. 1801 The Spanish begin to use Mouache Utes as spies to gather intelligence on the Plains Indians. 1804 Utes and Jicarilla Apaches joined the Spanish in a campaign against the Navajos. 1806 Battle near Taos between about 400 Mouache Utes and an equal num- ber of Comanches. Lt. Zebulon Pike represents first Anglo-American intrusion into Ute territory. Two Mouache Utes conduct a surgeon under Pike to Santa Fe. 1806-26 Several Spanish and Mexican trading expeditions went into Ute lands. 1809 About 600 Mouache Utes and some Jicarilla Apaches were attacked on the Arkansas River by Comanches, Cuampes, and Kiowas. Killed were the major Mouache chief, Delgadito, along with the other leaders, Mano Mocha and El Albo. 1811-12 Ezekiel Williams was trapping in southwestern Colorado. In 1812, Robert McKnight was also trapping in the lands of the Utes. |