Chipeta biography of mahatma
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| Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844 – August 9, 1924) was a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. | |
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Chipeta Queen of the Utes: A Biography
- Chipeta or White Singing Bird ( or – August 9, ) was a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe.
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- Chipeta (–) was a Ute woman known for her intelligence, judgment, empathy, bravery, and quiet strength, all of which made her the only woman of her time allowed on the Ute council.
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- Chipeta (1843–1924) was a Ute woman known for her intelligence, judgment, empathy, bravery, and quiet strength, all of which made her the only woman of her time allowed on the Ute council.
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- Chipeta, or White Singing Bird in the Ute language ( or – August ), was a Native American woman known for the courage and valor she demonstrated in her efforts to mediate peace between Native Americans and whites.
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“Used all her influence for peace”
by Naomi Watkins and Katherine Kitterman
with Forrest Cuch and Greg Thompson
Chipeta. Courtesy of Denver Public Library.
Chipeta, “White Singing Bird,” was adopted and raised by the Uncompahgre Utes of present-day central Colorado after her Kiowa Apache parents were killed. She became skilled in the Ute tradition of beadwork and tanning hides, played the guitar, and sang in three languages. After marrying Ute Chief Ouray, she became his advisor and confidant, often sitting beside him at tribal council meetings when it was not usual for women to attend. Together, they worked for better conditions for the Ute people and strived to live peacefully with white settlers.
It is said that Chief Ouray and Chipeta warned white settlers of an impending attack and often gave them navigational directions. However, tensions rose as gold was discovered on Ute land, and white settlers and the U.S. government tried to take the land and conver