Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844 – August 9, 1924) was a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe.

In 1985, Chipeta was inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame for her "courage and valor she demonstrated in her efforts to mediate between Native Americans and whites.

Chipeta married a White River Ute in Utah at the Ouray Agency,[1][3] named Accumooquats.

We were given the whole house and found carpets on the floor, lamps on the tables and a stove with fire brightly burning.

[9] They would help settlers travel through the wilderness such as showing them the direction of a ford to cross a river.

In addition, the government, through the White River Indian Agency, was pressing the Utes to take up farming, give up racing their horses, and convert to Christianity.

In a related battle at Milk Creek, the Utes pinned down forces from Fort Steele (Wyoming) for several days before reinforcements arrived.

Chipeta and Chief Ouray traveled with a delegation of Utes by train, bound for Washington, D.C.[24] As Chipeta and the other Utes attempted to board a train at Alamosa, they were almost lynched by an angry mob of white people, who believed them associated with the Meeker Massacre.

[24] Arrangements had been made to entertain and protect the Ute delegation while in the capital city[26] and to negotiate a treaty regarding reservation resettlement.

[29] On March 7, 1880, Chipeta was welcomed as a delegate by Secretary of Interior Carl Schurz at the United States Capitol.

Instead, she was given a partially constructed two-roomed house without furniture on the White River, without irrigation to grow crops.

[32] By 1916, Chipeta roamed southeast and south of the reservation with a small group of Utes who raised cattle and about 1,000 sheep.

They moved and allowed their livestock to graze as far south of the reservation as Book Cliffs in Utah, at the Head of Bitter Creek, in the other months.

[9] Realizing that the government has neglected Chipeta since she was forced to move to Utah, Cato Sells, Indian Affairs Commissioner sent her two shawls as a sign of remembrance.

[9] While at Bitter Creek during the warm months, family members strung a cord between her lodge and a spot where she could obtain privacy in the brush.

Gross and Chipeta's brother, John McCook, her remains were reburied in a mauseleum Ouray Memorial Park (part of the Ute Indian Museum), near the site of her former home at Montrose, Colorado on March 15, 1925.