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Show Wolcott when he introduced Senate Bill Number 1532 into the halls of the Senate. 72 Although receiving, once again, the favorable support of the Senate's Committee on Indian Affairs, the bill failed to reach the calendar of the Senate and died. 73 The next bill introduced into the Halls of Congress changed the direction of Ute policy. Instead of asking that the Indians be relocated, it asked that they remain on their present reservation which would then be divided into allotments for the purposes of their farming the land. The fifteen year effort of the citizens of Colorado, through their delegation in Washington, to have the Indians moved out of their state had failed. They did not take their failure lightly, but within the next year the Government was to establish the policy that Indians would remain in the area, and the whites were forced to accept the decision of Congress and the Executive Branch. For the Lite people the fifteen year period had been one of constant turmoil and confusion. They did not know if they were to be moved, when they were to be moved, and if so, under what conditions. Their whole life style had been disrupted by this turmoil, and, unfortunately, not easily redirected by the changes that had taken place on their reservation. They considered the land as part of their culture. Their life- style had been completely upset by what had happened. Their land had been reduced to a narrow strip not well suited to their past style of life. They had been forced to become wards of the Government. The change had created, and would continue to create, many hardships and difficult times for the Southern Utes. - Bureau of American Ethnology Photo The Ute delegation of March, 1905. Group of 13. 72. U. S.. Congress, Senate, " Bills Introduced," Congressional Record, Vol. XXVI, Part 2, 53d Cong., 2nd Sess.. January 30. 1894. p. 1625. 73. U. S.. Congress, Senate, Senate Res. No. 279, 53d Cong., 2d Sess., Ser No. 3179, March 22, 1894. - 49- |