 In 1895 The Hunter Act distributed the land in the reservation in plots to the heads of households in the Mouache and Capote tribes.The Weeminuche tribe had approved an 1888 congressional bill relocating them to San Juan County, Utah, however this bill did not pass so the Weeminuche were brought back to Colorado.They refused to go back to the old grounds of the agency so they established camps on the western end of the Southern Ute Reservation.