Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1912

Excerpts concerning Utah from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs expresses his opinion that the Dawes Act did not accomplish its attentions or deliver upon its promises. The Commissioner discusses the distribution and use of appropriated funds, eliminating schools based on a lack of attendance/need, defects within the agency and a new processes by which "Indian codes" should be drafted, efforts to prevent epidemics on reservations (including tuberculosis in schools), measures to prevent liquor consumption, large-scale irrigation projects, the process by which Indian land may be leased, etc. The Commissioner provides data and tables pertaining to America Indians; data indicates that over 3,000 Indians fall under the jurisdiction of the Utah Superintendency. The tables also outline the suppression of liquor traffic, treaties with the Utes, and Ute land that has been made available for sale to non-Indians