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Show REPORT OF TFIE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 291 shsll, thia winter, keep here an4 faor or 5ve boy#, seemingly of a bright intellect, and hope that this small begiuoiog may be themeans of civilizing thia very stubborn and suspicions people of the Rock Mountains. My relation with the Utes irn been one of mutual ood will end feeling. Thongb these Iudians are rn stubborn and unyielding in whet tiey consider their nght aa tbe monntains around them, yet they are kind and even generous to their kin,%hough sns-picions at firat of every person coming among them. Once convinced of their error, they prove steadfast and vduable frienda, as they have proved to Be to their white neixhbors. - With this neoole we cannot afford to he a t war. Whatever has been said aeainst them, what&er'wrong individuals may have dond, the nation, as .a nation has >ever broken its sUegisnee to the Government during these many years; and whatever re-ports may hechnlstedahant them hereafter-I say, and I know of what I speak-they do not deaire trouble, and there will be no collision unless they are attacked in their own country by soperior nitmbera. In oonolosion. I exorem the hone that still the desired obiect of aoanirinz s oortion of tho Ute rr&&ati&n may be aEcovnl,liahed, nut hy force, but hy ro~ivinciig(h em of the l~enufirat hat wottld arise to them sud rheir cljildwa from tile sale of ir, as already 1 am rmd ~ r c dh v dif%nnt incI9 nmorna tll+m thnr their rcttfna for r c f i l ~ i nto~ t reat a t all wn* nor do ~ I B CrhLo dvirin. tu keip rhr, 1ill.d intnvr. Ilur th.3 fcnr thxr;l~ould fhey diqmq': of one part, l,rolprrft~rrr nul idvrnfursra woold imn~edisrely 1>11911 farther uo ant, ure ti,*, X ~ ~ U I ~RK U ! # I R T ! )~v liiell the\. 3re ! IS~I ILIn ow. fl~llmt Ionz L)P 1I1t. b ~ * l n ~ l : ~ r ~ e ~ of the raeervation a& uot surveyed, e&rY man h% the'right to go %here he pleases on it unless it is proved that he is on an Indian reservation. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, CHARLES ADAMB, united Sfate8 Indian Agmt. Hon. F.,A. WALKER, .Conm~issionero f I4i.m Affairs, Washington,D . C. .. UINTAK A~ENcY, September 1,1872. SIR: Iniooordance with instructions. I submit mv second annual renort of the rsoenov |
