Show Life of Brave Rewritten Rc To Modern l Generation From From the files fUes of the Ver Ver- Vernal nal Express May 1 26 1932 This Is the Indian women of whom Gene Field penned these lines nut But give her a page in history too Though she be rotting in a humble shroud And write on the whitest of Gods God's white clouds Chipeta's name in eternal blue It Is of her herand and incidentally of her equally hus band Chief Ouray that these lines are written She was born June 10 1843 was of the band of the Ute Tribe and spent her childhood days near the present Conejos Colo rado She was a very ful maiden She became the wife Of Ouray in 1859 and his fortunes with the Utes were hers until his death Before proceeding farther with the history of Chipeta a short sketch of Ouray's life lie will not be out of place here Ouray said by Powell to be bethe bethe the attempt to pronounce the name Willie given him by bythe bythe the white family to which he was attached as a boy other authorities give the naming The Arrow A chief of the Utes born In Taos New Mexico in 1833 lIe was engaged in a fierce struggle e with Sioux In his early manhood and his only son was c captured by the Kiowa never to be restored His IUs relations with the UnIted States government so far as recorded began with the treaty made by the Tabe guache band at Condos Conejos Colo Colo- Colorado rado October 7 1863 to which hIs name Is signed U ray or Arrow He also sign sign- signed ed the treaty of Washington March 2 1868 by the name U Ure re though to the amend ment August 15 1868 It Is written Ouray He is noted chiefly for his unwavering friendship for the whites with whom he always kept faith and whose interests he protected as far as possible even on trying occasions IT WAS IN ALL probability Ity his firm stand and the re restraint he Imposed upon his people that prevented the Ule spread of the outbreak of the Utes In September 1879 when agent N C Meeker and others were killed and the women of the agency were made captives As soon as Ouray heard of this outbreak he commanded the cessation of hostilities which the agent claimed would have stopped further outrage had the sol sol- soldiers sol diers been withheld Ouray at this time signed himself head chief of the Utes For FOt his efforts to maintain peace at this time he was granted of 1000 as long longas longas as he remained chief of the Utes Ouray had a fair education speaking both English and Spanish Ills His death occurred at 11 arm am August 24 1880 at which time he was residing in ina ina a comfortable well furnished house on a farm farn which he owned and cultivated Al AI though one of the savages of America Ouray would have taught the czar and kings of the east much to their inter est and to the happiness of their subjects lie He was a mod mod- model elin el in habits for he never chew chew- chewed ed tobacco abhorred whiskey took but a sup of of wine In company when it was offered him and then only os as a mat ter of courtesy He never swore nor used obscene or vulgar gar language Ire He was a firm believer In the Christian faith and two years before his death Methodist united with the Metho Metho- dist Church Thus passed a areal real Indian who richly de de- deI deserves deserves serves the grateful consideration I tion of the people of the west |