Courtesy of the Colorado Springs
Pioneers Museum

Chipeta, wife of the Ute Chief Ouray, showed character through extremely turbulent times in our country’s history. Our nation’s leaders in Washington, D.C. sought out her ideas for peace.  She demonstrated the traits that our students strive to emulate through our character education program. The six pillars of character are: caring, fairness, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, and citizenship.

Read More about this fascinating person from Colorado's history: (Both books are in our Chipeta Library)
    Searching for Chipeta: the Story of a Ute and her People
by Vickie Leigh Krudwig
    Chipeta:Queen of the Utes, a biography
by Cynthia S. Becker and P. David Smith