[1] Other parts of the reservation are owned by non-Ute, as the tribe lost control of much of the land during the allotment process.

The Uintah Valley Reservation was created on October 3, 1861 by an executive order of President Abraham Lincoln.

In August 1905, after allotments had been granted to the Native peoples, the unallotted land in the reservation was opened to homesteading and mineral claims.

[3] By means of presidential proclamation, town-sites were created (such as Myton and Roosevelt) and land was taken and absorbed into the Uinta National Forest.

Law enforcement efforts in the area are complicated by this checkerboard of ownership which results in a variety of different legal jurisdictions.

1985) (en banc), known as Ute III, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld the tribe's legal jurisdiction over its members within the reservations and affirmed its boundaries, rejecting the state and counties' claims that the area of jurisdiction had been reduced since the reservation was established in 1864.

So much relief was warranted, this court found, to "reconcile two inconsistent boundary determinations and to provide a uniform allocation of jurisdiction among separate sovereigns.

It strongly advised the state and counties to observe the settled nature of this case and to refrain from their tactics to challenge the boundaries of the reservation and jurisdiction of the tribe over its people in "Indian country."