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Show 96 Nuwuvi: A Southern Paiute History government would provide for them temporarily and give them enough aid to establish themselves as farmers.10 Powell and Ingalls noted that the Nuwuvi "have always been an agricultural people." They reported that before white men settled in the country they had all cultivated the soil, and would have continued to do so if they still had land in the areas they occupied.12 The Special Commissioners recommended an appropriation of $96,400 for the Nuwuvi reservation and of $32,050 for payment of claims of white settlers living on the reservation." The government, however, was less and less willing to give the Nuwuvi adequate aid. Part of the problem stemmed from the white settlers for whom the Special Commissioners had asked $32,050. The Commissioners reported that "They occupy the best lands and control much of the water which is needed for the reservation, and it was only by their sufferance that the Indians were able to plant a crop this fall. It will not be possible for the Indians to proceed with any extensive farming until these people are removed." 14 Their presence caused tensions to always be on the brink of breaking down into war. It was reported that "there is a constant conflict betwen them and the Indians, which becomes more bitter daily, and, as the number of Indians is increased, it is liable to result in disastrous consequences." la The government's failure to remove these settlers plus the lack of appropriations for the reservation discouraged the Nuwuvi from going there. By the end of the year in which the proposed removal was to take place, only five hundred out of over three thousand Nuwuvi were at Moapa. Ingalls told his superiors that five hundred more would have moved to the reservation permanently if they had been encouraged to come and remain. The government's failure to provide adequate supplies and to remove the white settlers were given as reasons for this failure.16 The Moapa Reservation had such a shaky start that it was no surprise things worsened. Nevada citizens complained through their territorial legislature that they had not been asked for the approximately four thousand square miles included in the reservation. Nevada's Congressmen convinced the United States Congress, without any concern for the rights of the Indian occupants, to reduce the Nuwuvi reservation to "one thousand acres to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, in such manner as not to include the |