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Show Uinta Council, 56. not know anything about it. That is what we are talking about now. The Indians are talking about this reservation line that has been put here for a long time, and they cannot understand why it is thrown aside. It was put down a long time ago, before any of these people were born. This line is quite heavy. Now they are trying to throw it aside. It is so heavy that no one can throw it aside. They are talking about it now just as they were when it was made here. Thay think it is still running here. That is what they are talking about now. We do not want to threw it to ©ne side. That is what the Indians say. We have uur Agency down here. It is just the same as it was before. The paper is in the office down here; it is lying in the office watchiag the reservation line. It is watching the timber and the water. Red cap: Our Agency isahere now and has been for a long time. It is right square id the middle of the Reservation, The treaty is here ia the office, jt is watching all things around here. The AgendJT is watching all this land. This Agency has all the streams and the timber here upon the mountains. It knows these mountains and hills. Look up and you can see them lying around. You cannot take away these thingsj thay are right heavy. Nobody can take thea away, nor lift them,- I don't care how big he is. Are you a right stout man that you can carry thea away? Inspector McLaughlin: Hfy friends, it is my duty to try and enlighten you in this matter,- even if I fail to bring you to believe in the way I would wish to have you look upon it. I want to tell you what many of yau do not know} this reservation never was what is known as a treaty reservation,- it is an executive ©rder reservation. It was established by order of President Lincoln in 1361. President Lincoln sot aside a pioco of land here within which no White man was permitted to corn© unless authorized by the Government. This reservation was not given to you outright, it was simply reseroad |