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Show The Uneasy Peace 85 Indians." 64 Sale had in fact done some of his most delicate negotiating with the Pahranagit Nuwuvi who had been attacking the Meadow Valley settlements since their founding. Sale soon returned to Salt Lake City, and trouble immediately broke out again between the mining settlers in Southeastern Nevada and the Nuwuvi. In a petition to Utah Governor James Doty, the miners reported that they had been forced to suspend their operations.60 Sale returned to Pahranagat Valley and sought to pacify the local Indians, but by July of 1865 the miners were forced to temporarily leave again.66 The hostilities continued into 1866 with the whites attacking the Indians as often as the reverse. In March of that year, a miner was killed between Panaca and Pahranagat. The miners at first blamed the Mormons, whom they set out to raid. On their way they encountered a Mormon posse from Panaca who had captured an Indian named Okus who confessed to the killing. The miners were convinced and tied a rope around Okus's neck, forcing him to run behind their horses. The two groups of whites then attacked a Nuwuvi camp, killing the three men who were there and who "tried to 'resist' the posse." They then went to Okus's camp and picked up a second Indian named Bushhead. Okus and Bushhead were then hanged. The miners wanted to attack a third Nuwuvi camp, but the Mormons had had enough and "respectfully declined the offer."67 Either because of these continual skirmishes between the whites and Nuwuvi or because the new mineral discoveries plus the increased Mormon settlement were considered more important, Irish abandoned his attempts to establish an agency. In September of 1865 he negotiated a treaty with six Nuwuvi providing for the removal of all Nuwuvi residing in Utah Territory to the Ute reservation in the Uintah Basin. The treaty was an extension of the one signed by the Utes at Spanish Fork on June 18, 1865, which provided for the removal of all Utah Indians to the Uintah Reservation. By this treaty the "Pi-ede and Pah-Ute bands of Indians" relinquished all "right of occupancy in and to all of the lands heretofore claimed and occupied by them . . . within the defined boundaries of the Territory of Utah." The Nuwuvi further agreed "to remove to and |