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Title	Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1912
Subject	Indian reservations; Federal government; Indians of North America; Maps; Work; Land use; Allotment of land; Treaties; Agriculture; Timber; Health; Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Water rights; Natural resources; Livestock; Grazing; Art; Culture; Education; Indians of North America--Education; Irrigation; Annuities; Alcohol; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords	Annual Report; Indian Agency; Reservations; Land Rights; Mining; Allotment; Tribal Funds; Superintendency; Native Americans
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Tribe	Ute
Language	eng
Description	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
Type	Text
Coverage	Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Utah; Washington (D.C.)
Format	application/pdf
Rights	Digital Image © 2011 America West Center. All Rights Reserved
ARK	ark:/87278/s69k76xd
Creator	Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Valentine, Robert G. (Robert Grosvenor), 1872-1916
Date	1912
Spatial Coverage	Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Washington (D.C.); Utah
Setname	uaida_main
ID	376149
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k76xd

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Title	Page 256
Format	application/pdf
OCR Text	Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 325 from 4 to 6 per cent per annum. I I TABLE 73.-Volume of business in India warehouses, 1916. Chataw.. ....................... ................ Chiokasnw. ............................................... Cherokee.. ............................................... Creek... .................................................. Seminole.. ............................................... Grand total ......................................... I Number. weight. I value. I contwt. 2:gt, 1 ,011. P - - - - 11,721 972. W 590'481.45 244'528.70 469:850.W 16,971.80 8,049,8W.45 New York Warehouse ............... Chleago waehow. ................. s t . Lo& w~rehom.e. ............... Omaha warehouse.. ................ San Francrsco warehouse.. .......... Total.. ....................... $29 196.97 11'188.55 4'719.42 8:~2.17 418.38 53,565.49 1 &led. I Requisitions issued. 11,757,188.97 601 670. W 249'248.12 477'892.17 17:389.88 3,103,368.94 Express shipments. pozmda. 1 10 728 5 255 -- Freight shipments. Number. 5 988 112:658 28 070 50'734 21:258 218,708 I Weight. -- P O W ~ ~ . 513 030 35,808:314 -- 7 290 675 4'20i 078 2:038:075 49,850,172 Value. $193 445.97 5541438.41 187'755.~ 194:149.91 91.175.04 1,220,964 56
Setname	uaida_main
ID	376141
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k76xd/376141

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