Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...

, a state in the western

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that straddles the heights of the

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and the western edges of the Great Plains, has been the traditional home of several Uto-Aztecan, Algonquian, and

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tribes. However, all tribes except for bands of the Ute were relocated to other states, primarily

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and Oklahoma, during the Westward Expansion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As such, in total, there is only one remaining Native American language spoken in Colorado: Colorado River Numic.

Distribution

There is only one Native American language currently spoken in Colorado. Population estimates are based on figures from Ethnologue and U.S. Census data, as given in sub-pages below. The language is shown in the table below:

References

{{reflist Native American history of Colorado

Native Americans in Colorado

Distribution

See also

References