The Uintah tribe (Uintah Núuchi , ''Yoowetum'', ''Yoovwetuh'', ''Uinta-at'', later called ''Tavaputs''), once a small band of the

Ute people Ute () are an Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico.Pritkzer''A Native American Encyclopedia'' p. 242 Historically, their t ...

, and now is a tribe of multiple bands of Utes that were classified as Uintahs by the U.S. government when they were relocated to the

Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uinta and Ouray Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Indians in northeastern Utah, United States. Three bands of Utes comprise the Ute Indian Tribe: the Whiteriver Band, the Uncompahgre Band and the Uintah Band ...

. The bands included the San Pitch,

Pahvant The Pahvant or Pahvants (''Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits'') were a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah. Called the "Water People", they fished and hunted waterfowl. They were also farmers and hunter-gatherers. In the 18th century they w ...

, Seuvartis,

Timpanogos The Timpanogos (Timpanog, Utahs or Utah Indians) are a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited a large part of central Utah, in particular, the area from Utah Lake east to the Uinta Mountains and south into present-day Sanpete County. Most Tim ...

and

Cumumba Cumumba (also called Weber Utes and Cumumba Utes) is a Native American tribe of mixed Shoshone and Ute heritage who lived above Great Salt Lake, near what is now Ogden, Utah Ogden ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, Weber ...

Utes. Uintahs lived between

Utah Lake Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the center of Utah County, Utah, United States. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo- Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Sa ...

to the

Uintah Basin The Uinta Basin (also known as the Uintah Basin) is a Physiographic regions of the world, physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It is als ...

of the Tavaputs Plateau near the Grand-

Colorado River The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...

-system.

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{{Authority control Ute (ethnic group) Uto-Aztecan peoples