Native American languages of Colorado
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Colorado, a state in the western United States that straddles the heights of the Rocky Mountains and the western edges of the Great Plains, has been the traditional home of several Uto-Aztecan, Algonquian, and Tanoan tribes. However, all tribes except for bands of the Ute were relocated to other states, primarily Wyoming and Oklahoma, during the Westward Expansion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
As such, in total, there is only one remaining Native American language spoken in Colorado: Colorado River Numic.[citation needed] The language spoken by the Ute is classified as part of the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.[1]