The Tabeguache Ute were the People of Tava - Sun Mountain. For generations they came to Manitou's mineral springs to pray, to heal, and to offer thanks to the spirits of the water. In 1881, the U.S. government forced them onto a reservation in Utah, far from the mountain at the center of their identity.

For fifteen years, Loya Colorow Arrum led her people home — not as visitors, but as the people the land still knew. Each return was an act of cultural survival, an insistence that forced removal had not ended their claim to this place.

At Seven Minute Spring, she spoke her blessing in Ute, and wept. These springs once drew nations who were enemies everywhere else - and here, by the water, they kept peace. She came back to say the old prayers again and again, so the water would still know who first called it sacred.