NUUCHIU DRUMBEAT … According to Summer Begay of the award-winning Southern Ute Drum, “The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has reached an historic milestone by becoming the first tribe to sign a Tribal Energy Resource Agreement (TERA) with the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.” The signing in D.C. with Secretary Doug Burgum and Asst. Secretary Billy Kirkland III last month formerly recognizes the Tribe’s sovereignty claim to managing its own energy and mineral resources without oversight from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs …