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Show 340 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS Indian interpreter he could get, and with him go over to Grass Valley and clearly inform the Indians there of the benefits that would come to them, if they would go to Uintah and enroll themselves with the Indians there. President Seegmiller had George Hatch informed the Indians that he and Archibald W Buchanan would be over on a certain date and want-ed a meeting with them, as he had important mat-ters to present to them for consideration. The Indians assembled in the stack yard of John Hatch close to the Indian village near Green-wich. The Indians were sullen and said, they were members of the Mormon Church and why did we , their old friends, want to drive them away to the Reservation? Did the Mormons want to get their land from them and make homes for themselves! They would rather starve here and eat dirt than go to the Reservation and have their squaws defiled and their generations cut off by de-cease, than to get money, land, blankets, etc., by going to the Reservation. They threw away ( tarab-bied) their Mormon friends, but would not go to the Reservation. Interpreter Buchanan then told them we did not want to remove them to the Reservation; we wanted to be their friends as always, and for them to choose whether they would go or remain. If they wanted to go to the Reservation and could see a benefit in it, well and good, but if not, to feel that we were their friends and would not force them to go. President Seegmiller spoke to the Indians in a kind and fatherly way and said, they were to choose their course whether to go or stay, and in |