the spring and fall and in mid-summer hunted game in the parks of Colorado. Cheyenne – lived on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains with the Arapaho. Southern Athabaskans – consists of the Apachean and Navajo Nations, migrated from the present-day state of Alaska and northwestern Canada to the Great Plains of the United States, including Colorado, before settling in Southwestern United States. Apache Dismal River culture – the Apache presence in Colorado began with Dismal River cultures. Carlana (also Carlanes) – lived in southeastern Colorado on Raton Mesa and in 1726, they had joined with the Cuartelejo and Paloma, and by the 1730s, they were living with the Jicarilla. Jicarilla Apache – by A.D. 1525, the Jicarilla Apache who lived in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado and ranged throughout the plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. See Cedar Point Village, Picture Canyon, Trinchera Cave Archeological District Caddoan – of the Great Plains of the central United States, from North Dakota south to Oklahoma. Pawnee – ranged through the Great Plains and were first documented by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado when he met a Pawnee chief from Nebraska in 1541. Regarding Colorado, they hunted bison on plains of eastern Colorado. Tanoan languages – a major family of Pueblo languages (Jemez, Tewa, Tiwa) and the Kiowa, ancestral to the pueblo people Kiowa – lived or ranged in the southwestern plains adjacent to the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado. Uto-Aztecan languages Central Numic – the homeland of the Numic branch has been placed near Death Valley, California. Comanche – were located in southeastern Colorado, south of the Arkansas River. Shoshone – Eastern Shoshone tribes lived in northern Colorado and Wyoming. Colorado River Numic language – like the Central Numic, the homeland of the Colorado River Numic branch has been placed near Death Valley, California. Ute – migrated from Utah and the Great Basin before the 17th century, occupied most of Colorado and were prehistoric hunters of western Colorado. They are the only native people with reservations in Colorado, the Southern Ute Indian Reservation and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation. Archaeologists Cynthia Irwin-Williams – notable sites are LoDaisKa site, Magic Mountain site, and her work on Oshara tradition and Picosa culture Paul Sidney Martin – excavated many ancient pueblo sites, including Lowry Pueblo Waldo Rudolph Wedel – a notable site is Lamb Spring, and also see his work on the