Sapiah

Sapiah (his Ute name), is also commonly known as Charles Buck and Buckskin Charley (also spelled Buckskin Charlie; 1840–May 8, 1936), was the leader of the Southern Ute tribe from about 1870 until his death in 1936. He led a group of Utes to rescue women and children from the White River Agency during the Meeker Massacre (1879) that resulted in the deaths of Nathan Meeker and his soldiers. The northern band of Utes were forced out of Colorado after the massacre.

In 1880, Chief Ouray died, and Sapiah and other Ute chiefs negotiated for treaties with the United States government. Sapiah met five or more presidents in Washington, D.C., including Benjamin Harrison who awarded him the Rutherford B. Hayes Indian Peace Medal and Theodore Roosevelt. He attended Roosevelt's inaugural parade. Sapiah sought to coexist with white people in peace. He fought for children's education on the reservation and was opposed to sending children away from their families to American Indian boarding schools.

The government was pressured to remove all Utes from Colorado after the Meeker and Beaver Creek Massacres (1885). But in and after 1894, the government established two reservations in Southern Colorado under federal law: the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation and the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. Sapiah was a farmer and rancher on his allotted 160-acres of land. Provided by Wikipedia