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Show __3__ titled, under the law, to 10 acres each. That would make 11,840 acres which must be allotted to Indians. Now, how many Indians who do not reside on the reservation are entitled to allotments? Mr. Reed. I can not answer that. Under the law that set aside the Colorado River Reservation for the Indians, as I remember it now, it was provided that this should be for the benefit of the Indians along the Colorado and its tributaries. Mr. Hayden. That does not mean that the Indian Service can go up into Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, to the very headwaters of the Colorado River, and bring Indians down to the Colorado River Reservation and allot them lands? Mr. Reed. No; I do not believe that is what it meant. I think that it meant that those Indians who are practically all of the same blood and the same family of Indians but were separated into bands at that time and living along the Colorado, either directly on it or in close proximity to it, should be included. Mr. Hayden. You refer to the Indians of the Mohave tribe. Mr. Reed. Mohave, yes; and possibly the Chemehuevi. Mr. Hayden. I have heard it said that allotments had been made on this reservation to Cocopah Indians who were natives of Mexico, temporarily residing in the United States. Is that true? Mr. Reed. Not to my knowledge. I have heard the same rumor, but it was not my duty to investigate that, and I did not. I understand that that was looked into by the Indian Office, and I did not follow it up to know whether or not they found a single instance of that kind or not. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |