Ute Indian Tribe

The proposal has broad legislative support, but is dividing the Indigenous community.

A new bill introduced this week in the state legislature would make historic advances in voting access for Colorado’s two Native American tribes. It would also expand access to students and inmates, and make changes to ballot counts, election transparency and campaign finance.

The Ute Mountain Ute tribe’s chairman, Manuel Heart, and the Southern Ute tribe’s chairman, Melvin J Baker, praised lawmakers for working with the tribes, but said they have also been left out of important legislation in the past.

The House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing today on the Bureau of Land Management's plans to move headquarters out west . Congressional...