AZ vs. CA:16 California Exhibits, Vol. XVI; Nos. 2600-2644

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120507 Previous Efforts to Place Other Indians on £he_ Reienre Records show that effort* wero made to comply with the expressed intent of Congress at the time the reservation was established by endeavoring to convince the Indians of the Colorado River area in Arizona to uovo to the new reserve. Most outstanding of these efforts was the dismal failure to compel the Walapais (estinated at fro.n 500 to 800 persons) by force of arms to take up their home on the new lands. They remained only so long as compelled to do so by the Army after which they returned to their original homes where later a separate reservation was created for then (see Executive Orders of January 4, 1883; December 28, 1898; May 14, 1900; June 2, 1911; May 29, 1912; and July 18, 1913). The Tunas, living 100 miles from the new reserve, were also urged repeatedly to move to the new lands. They refused and efforts to persuade them were finally abandoned and a separate reservation created for them by the Executive Orders of January 6, 1883 and January 9, 1884, Partially successful, however, were the efforts to locate the Mojaves. In 1871 approximately one-third of them were reported to be then residing on the new lands while the remainder continued to live on their original holdings around Jort Mojave, being deterred principally from migrating because of a feud between two of the principal chiefs. As time passed and it became evident that all of those Indians residing near the i'ort Mojave Military Reserve could not be persuaded to move to the new lands, the President approved on September 19, 1880, a recommendation of the War Department that Camp Mojave and the Camp Mojave Hay and Wood Reservations be transferred and turned over to the Department of the Interior for Indian school purposes under the Act of July 31, 1882 (22 Stat., 181). This area was subsequently enlarged by Executive Orders of December 1, 1910 and February 2, 1911. At the present time, however, more than half of the Mojaves live on and have allotments on the Colorado River Reservation. Of those remaining on •the Fort Mojave Reservation and in the vicinity of Needles, the majority are ready to come down to the Colorado River Reservation and take assignments within the irrigation project as soon as land there is ready for occupancy and farming. With regard to the Chemehuevi Indians, it appears that under date of February 2, 1907, the Secretary of the Interior Issued an order withdrawing from entry a tract of approximately 36,000 acres of public land lying some twenty-five miles south of Needles, California, about midway between that town and the town of Parker, on the northern end of the Colorado River Reservation. Within this tract eleven public domain allotments were made to as many Chemehuevi Indians. These withdrawn lands have always been considered