The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their home were the Tabeguache, meaning the People of Sun Mountain. Tava or sun, is the Ute word that was given by these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak. The Ute people first arrived in Colorado about 500 A.D., although their traditions state they were created on Pikes Peak. In the 1800s, when the Arapaho people arrived in Colorado, they knew the mountain as Heey-otoyoo' meaning Long Mountain.