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Show Intra- Tribal Relations - 397 exists between the western and eastern bands of the So. Ute Indians. Members of the western band have left the reservation and are harassing white settlers by demanding food. They say they are utterly unable to get to the agency for rations, although Day does not believe this. Ignacio is preventing children from attending the Ft. Lewis school and is even kidnapping the children from that school and returning them to the reservation. Day requests authority to strip Ignacio and his police of their uniforms. Ignacio has no influence with the Utes who occupy the east end, but his tribe is feared. NA, RG 75, BIA/ 17733 July 10, 1895 Day, David F-, Agent, So. Ute Agency Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Day names several Indians of the Ouray Agency who have been living on the So. Ute Reservation and who wish to remain and take allotments. Permission is requested to grant these requests. July 30, 1895 Browning, D. M., Commissioner Memorandum Memo instructing the return of a letter from David Day, So. Ute Agent, with the remark that the Indians he named are Uncompahgre Utes and, therefore, not entitled to allotments on the Southern Ute Reservation. 1900 List Three pages of names, divided into the Ute Mountain Utes and the Utah Utes. July 17, 1900 Smith, Joseph O., Indian Agent, So. Ute Agency Letter to Walter Graves Smith writes to Graves, who is responsible for the irrigation systems of the different Indian |
