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Show 115 other hand, the United States was not sufficiently i -? interested in a group of settlers regarded as un- American and tinpatriotic, to make appropriations and plane adequate for the establishment of those people in & new Indian oountry - a country which " had been abandoned to the Mormons for its worthlessnesa. 11 Consequently the Indiana suffered. That this one unfavorable oircumetanoe should have outweighed the better conditions in Utah is indedd not a happy conclusion concerning the management by Congress of the Utah Indian policy. Still more unfortunately it seems to agree with our failure in general to make the i federal Indian policy a suocesa in a humane and systematic manner, For, showing a general indifference to Indian affairs the United States from 1837 till the Civil War : made no oodification of Indian treaties, and allowed the ' law of tribal relations to remain scattered through a 2 thousand volumes of government documents. And speaking of the federal Indian policy in general, Commissioner Dole in the Indian Affairs Report of 126^, j , . .„ J Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of Utah, p. 453. 2 ] Paxson, F. L., The Last American Frontier, p. 299, ! |