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Show 60 Nuwuvi: A Southern Paiute History offered him a deal. The man, fearing for his life, agreed to trade a 12-year-old boy who was accompanying him for the ox.16 Five days later word was sent out by the Mormon company to the Indians that "should they wish to trade their children or other articles for clothing or provisions to come to our encampment." 1( The new residents of Louisa, Utah (later Parowan), soon learned that some Nuwuvi were not so willing to welcome them into their homeland. On January 27th, six Mormons arrived from California and reported having trouble with the Indians on the Muddy who were still the band least willing to accept the white intrusions into their territory.18 The Mormon Church President, Brigham Young, made the conversion and civilization of the Indians a major goal for all new settlements. Despite this interest in helping the Indians, the new settlers wanted Nuwuvi lands and did what they could to take them. On August 23, 1851, Smith and James Lewis wrote U. S. President Millard Fillmore about the efforts the Mormons had made in settling Little Salt Lake Valley. They commented on the rich and fertile soil in the valley around Parowan. It was their belief that the land would become valuable but only "when the Government will remove the Indians from the Territory that our labor may be secured to us . . . with the extinguishment of the Indian Title if this could be done the happiness of thousands would be secured. . . ." 19 Brigham Young in the meantime as Governor and ex-omcio Utah Superintendent of Indian Affairs had begun to organize and divide up the responsibilities of the three Indian agents who had been assigned to him. On July 21, 1851, he issued a proclamation dividing the territory into three agencies consisting of Pauvan, Uinta, and "Parowan Agency, to include all the country lying west of the eastern rim of the Great Basin and South of the South line of the Pauvan Valley to the Western bounds of the Territory." 20 No one was assigned to Parowan. The agent, J. H. Holeman, wasn't available because he had gone east to treat with the Shoshone and because he disagreed with Young's policy of assigning agencies.21 Stephen B. Rose, the Uinta Agent, did make occasional journeys to the south. On December 30, 1851, he wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Luke Lea, that the Indians he had met were interested in "the Great Father" and hoped that he would do something to help |