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Show Uinta council, 39. The Department requires Indians to cultivate at least a portion of their allotment and they can lease the rest. As I told you yesterday the Kiowas,Gomanches and other Indians were just as much opposed to opening their reservations as you are today to thi3 change^but you could not get one of them now to go back to the old way of living,they are so well pleased with the new conditions. Red Cap. I do not like the things you say to me atall. All your talk is like dark night. My talk to you I want to be like daylight. This agency has been here by Washington. It is here and you cannot change it. This agency is holding down all the streams here. It i3 holding the mountains and the timber. This belongs to the "White River chief Sowawick, The line is laid around this land and there is no one who can come in upon it. They cannot break it nor crawl through it. I talk to you and what you are talking is no good. Thats all, Appah. I am going to talk to you today about this business that you are here for. We are going to talk now when the sun is in the West. We are talking here in our agency house and you say you are a friend to us and you are talking this unpleasant business here. Eere are my young men around us. They are here and you white people should be my friends. Now we are talking what we think to each other. Here i3 our chief,my father. Our agent here,Capt.Mercar,is my father. The agency is down there and he is holding it down, I am not poor yet; I have a father at the agency. This land here where I am talking belongs to him. |