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Show ! I Uinta Council, 21. do not like that. Big Joe. (Uinta) What the Indians say is that they want to hold this reservation. That is the truth. They all want to keep it. We want to keep it for the children In school. It is hare they are going to live after a while. That 13 the reason we do not want the reservation to be opened. This has been in my mind a long time and I knew It was coming. The way it is now, the Indians can go where they like. That i3 good, and we want it to be thajr way. Everything is good now, the way it is. Hare is our wood on the mountains. I understand why it is that you are here. I was talking to my father in Washington, The Commissioner told me about it. We talked to each other. At the time when -ve were talking, I asked the Commissioner "How many are there of you?" I want to find out how many there are of you. The Commissioner said,"What is the matter with your reservation? You have a line running on your reservation and it cannot be changed." I heard all the Commissioner had to say. Black jjawk,(Uinta) I have listened to what you have said to these people. I can understand some of Sha.t you. say myself. I do not like it. After you allot the land and sell it, I do not like that. I have no sense, asd I know it, I just play with this land, but when I had money, I threw it away. I am here on thi3 land. That is what holds me up. I do not want you to steal it from me, I do not know anything about the Secretary, or the Commissioner or Inspectors, and I do not know about any of thi3. |
