PARTNERSHIP
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
We are proud to work with a diverse set of partners who are experts in their fields, leaders in the community, and are vital to the long term success of Sun Bear.
The Ute Mountain ute tribe are one of our primary partners, and SunBear would not be successful without their vision and participation. We respect the work they have done around clean energy in the past, the generational knowledge of the land and all that they bring to project Sun Bear.
The tribe
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are the Weenuche band of the Ute Nation of Indians. The two other bands, the Mouache and the Capote became the Southern Ute Tribe. The Northern Ute Bands (the Uncompahgre band, the Grand River band, the Yampa band, and the Uinta band) are located on the Uinta Ouray Reservation near Vernal, Utah.
The Ute Indians are distinguished by the Ute language, which is Shoshonean, a branch of the UtoAztecan linguistic stock (Garcia and Tripp, 1977).
Other Indians in the United States that speak Shoshonean are the Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone, and several California Tribes.
Currently the tribe has a little over 2,000 members.
A PARTNERSHIP MODEL
We are proud to work with a diverse set of partners who are experts in their fields, leaders in the community, and are vital to the long term success of Sun Bear.
The Ute Mountain ute tribe are one of our primary partners, and SunBear would not be successful without their vision and participation. We respect the work they have done around clean energy in the past, the generational knowledge of the land and all that they bring to project Sun Bear.
