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Show #11. be put on those oedar posts." By having signs and names on those posts is oheating tha Indians. I mean these allotment stakes. By putting those stakes around there has been lota of money and things stolen. .1 have always thought "whoae money is that that i3 gone;" and now the White River Indiana are all poor. They have given their names to the Government 3" All this that I have talked about is all lost to the Indians. And about the roads: they are not olosed; they ar9 all open. And about the rations: the Indians have always received them. If White men oome and take up thia grazing raserv9, -th9 Indians will do something, but they do not know what it is. SPEAR HUBBARD: I will not speak long, but I want to talk to you. The White River Indiana havs money. The Uncompahgre Indians and the White River Indians, togather, they have lots of monay. This mon-ay oomes from land back yonder in Colorado that they used to own a long time ago; thia money oomas from that and it is theirs. It is just like a stream of water; it runa all the time. It belongs to the Indians. Whan all. these people who are here now die off, thi3 will still be the same, and those who coma after and grow up will have this money, I am telling you the faots. Both the White RiV9r and Uncompahgre Indians tumad their names to the Government. |
