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Show 54 Unfulfilled Promises: Negotiations with the Intruders, 1849-1882 The major issues of the slave trade and the Mormon occupation of Ute lands were not settled. However, Wakara agreed to peace. This treaty was not formalized. Another private agreement was made by the Ute leader Ara-peen in December of 1856. He signed a deed conveying the land known as Sanpete County to Brigham Young as trustee of the LDS Church. Arapeen also deeded to Young his livestock, guns, and farming tools.15 Unratified Spanish Fork Treaty, 1865 In 1861 a reservation was established in the Uintah Valley by Executive Order of President Lincoln. However, the understaffed Indian superintendency, which had been taken out of Brigham Young's control in 1857, made no immediate effort to force the Utes to reside on the Uintah Valley Reservation. Utah Utes continued to hunt throughout the eastern half of Utah and in western Colorado and Wyoming. In June of 1863 Utah Superintendent James Doty and General Patrick Connor, Commander at Camp Douglas, negotiated a treaty of peace with Little Soldier, leader of the Weber (Cumumba) Utes. (Federal officials were concerned about protecting the Overland Mail Route.) Doty sent messengers to other Ute leaders to meet at Spanish Fork. A month later several Ute groups, including Yamparika, Pah Vant, Parianuche, and Taviwach, came to the council. The People agreed to peace and were promised provisions. These treaties were not formalized.16 In 1864 Congress passed a law confirming the 1861 Executive Order and selling the small farm-reservations. The law also authorized treaty negotiations with Utah Indians for cession of their lands.17 The new Utah Indian Superintendent Oliver H. Irish was ordered to negotiate with the People to move them to the Uintah Reservation. A council of the Ute People was called at Spanish Fork Reservation 6 June 1865. Brigham Young was invited, as were several government and military officials, most of whom refused to go because of anti-Mormon sentiment. The aged leader Sowiette explained that the Ute People "did not want to sell their land and go away; they wanted to live around |
