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Show Uinta Council, 58, to receive your allotments before the reservation:!* opened. If you consent on or before the first of June you have the selection of such tracts as you desire. If you refuse to accept your allotments the Secretary is then directed to cause the allotments to be made to you arbitrarily. *$Tou can lose nothing by this, ay friends, but you will gain many privileges,as I explained yester*-- day^ which you do not enjoy while holding your lands in common. I have explained the importance of this question to you time and again,placing it before you in various ways,and have tried to make you understand this simple proposition, and you cannot have failed _ to understand if you have kept your ears open to what I have said. You must nod think, my friend^, that I am interested in this at all other than desiring to see you benefited, por your own sake and that of your children, grandchildren, and those who come after you, it is your duty to accept this proposition. Sockive: All right. You did not say that this is not your talk,- you did not Say that. That is the reason I do not want you to talk about it. I tell you that I want to keep this reservation. This is not your talk, I want to keep this land. I do not want you to talk very much about it: j am not going to give you this land. These men back here all want to keep this land. They are going to keep it. These men here will not give it to you even if you do ask for it. You are not going to cut this reservation into little pieces. We do not want you to talk about it. This land where our children have grown up,- where our dead are buried, we don't want A to let any of it go. Terras: I say those Indians want to keep thoir land. I like thi3 \ land. This Congress that is talking, we do not pay any attention to Congress can not open this reservation. |