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Show on Stephen B. Rose to R G 75 Brigham Young Microcopy 234 Oct. 20, 1851 Reel 897 United Agency, Great Salt Lake October 20, 1851 Sir. In pursurance of your instructions I most respectfully submit to the department, the following brief report of affairs .in conduction with the Unita Subagency during the past quarter. The tribes included in this Agency are the Shoshonee or Snake Indians, inhabiting a section of country west of the Rocky Mountains lying along the Wind.River Mountains, Henry's Fork, Snake and Bear Rivers; and the Unitas' Tribe lying on the South Eastern Borders of the Territory. First the Shoshonee or Snake Tribe, with whom I have spent almost my entire time with, since my arrival in the territory seem to be very friendly disposed towards the Whites and very anxious to be at peace with the neighbouring Tribes. Their main band numbers about twelve hundred. They subsist upon fishing and hunting, and are toerably well armed, and have a very large number of horses. They seem to b e perfectly aware that in a few years that their game will be destroyed and that it will become necessary to seek some other mode of obtaining a living. On the 13th of August last I started in connecion with Mr. Holeman to take the Tribe to the Treaty, to be held by the Government with different tribes at Fort Laramine. They were not received into the Treaty as they were not covered by the Commissioners to belong to that portion of Territory to, which they were authorized to treat with. They were however much pleased with their reception by the Commissioners, and were successful in |