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Show 56 Unfulfilled Promises: Negotiations with the Intruders, 1849-1882 Finally the leaders signed a treaty in which they agreed not to disturb those building the roads or settling upon them. However, they refused to move onto the reservation with the Taviwach. This treaty was not ratified by Congress. Colorado Governor Alexander Cummings, who had secured the treaty, then met at Conejos Agency in council with the Taviwach. He hoped to convince them to abide by the 1863 Treaty and stop stealing livestock from nearby ranches. Cummings found that the People were angry. Thus far the government had not kept any of the terms of the 1863 Treaty as promised. He reported that the People regarded these frustrating negotiations as "such an agreement as the buffalo makes with his hunters when pierced with arrows; all he can do is lie down and cease every attempt at escape or resistance."20 Federal officials then met in council with Ute leaders at Fort Garland in September of 1866. They tried to convince the Utes to obey the terms of the 1863 Treaty: to settle down on a reservation and live like white people. However, the People opposed the idea. Tradition had taught them that to stay in one place meant death. When General William T. Sherman, who was in attendance, maintained that the army would protect them, the People laughed. They had been attacked during the past year by Comanches while they were encamped near an army fort.21 Ute Treaty, 1868 Conflicts between the People and the non-Utes continued. The People were suffering. Their hunting grounds were being invaded and the promised provisions were not being given. As Ouray had explained at the 1866 council: Long time ago, Utes always had plenty. On the prairie, antelope and buffalo, so many Ouray can't count. In the mountains, deer and bear everywhere. In the streams, trout, duck, beaver, everything. Good Mantou gave all to red man; Utes happy all the year. White man came, and now Utes go hungry a heap. Game so much every year hard to shoot now. Old man often weak for want of food. Squaw and papoose cry. Only strong brave live, white man grows a heap; Red man no grow â€" soon die all.22 However, Ouray wanted peace. In March 1868 he and nine other leaders signed another treaty (called the Kit Carson Treaty |