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Show 152 Nuwuvi: A Southern Paiute History families living in Southern Utah. It was found that the average yearly income of these families was only $2,746, with large differences from family to family. Some families received less than $1,000 dollars per year.6 The paved road often stops just as it enters the Indian community. Such is often the case with other services provided to the white community by the city and the state. Of the five bands considered in the survey, four (the exception is the Cedar City band which is living on land owned by the Mormon Church) were put in the "no man's land" created by termination. These people lost the services, such as they were, provided by the BIA. After having lost their special relationship with the federal government, nearby or adjacent utilities were not required to extend such services as running water, sewage and garbage disposal, lighting and pavement of roads, since the reservation areas were not inside the city limits. Small in proportion to the white community and considerably less well off, the political clout of the Indian community is not great. The Nuwuvi, having dealt through the BIA in the past were unfamiliar with the rights and political privileges of citizenship. Though the award granted by the Indian Claims Commission is an acknowledgment of foul play in the past, the money could do little to help the Nuwuvi today. The findings of the Economic and Social Survey indicate that more than $7,522 per family is needed to rectify the wrongs of the past. |