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Show 88 now on the tract to leave it, (describing it as fully as possible) and to notify all other white persons, who may be found upon the reservation when its limits shall be definitely established, that they will be required to remove. The superintendent has further been instructed to prepare and submit, as soon as possible, a plan for removing the Indians from the old reservations to the Uintah valley. It is confidently expected that the most gratifying results will follow the completion of the plans thus set on foot for the concentration of the Indians in their new homes.^ These comments should be compared to the descriptions written during the same era of starving Indians who threatened violence constantly, simply to stay alive. In 1865, the treaty negotiations and the hope of peace tended to divert a few of the Indian people to Uintah, but what they found so dismayed them that they tended to return to the central Utah settlements. Even though 0. H. Irish gave a favorable account of the area, it was obvious that the only thing that had been done was to send an agent, L. B. Kinney, to begin preliminary arrangements for the arrival of the Indians. It is hard to understand why better homes were not created for the Indians, thus attracting them rather than herding them to their new home. A possible answer is the penurious appropriations Congress gave to*' the Utah Superintendency during those years. While Kinney was at the location in 1866, the 2 Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1864, pp. 160-161. |
