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Show 86 Nuwuvi: A Southern Paiute History settle upon the Uintah Indian Reservation within one year," and "to confederate with the several bands of Utah Indians-----" As compensation they were entitled to all the improvements promised the Utes. The Government further agreed to give "the head Chief of the Pi-ede and Pah-Ute tribe" a house with five acres of ploughed and fenced land and one hundred dollars a year for twenty years. In addition he would receive "two yoke of oxen, two yokes and two chains, one wagon, one plow, ten hoes, six axes, two shovels, two spades, four scythes and snaths, one saddle and bridle and one set of harness." These items would be given to him within three months of removing to the reservation. The government was paying this insignificant price for an area including roughly the southern fourth of present-day Utah and part of present-day eastern Nevada. It included the recent mineral strikes at Pahranagat and Meadow Valleys in Nevada and in Washington County, Utah. The treaty was signed for the Indians by "Tutz-e-gub-et," "Tahb-go," "O-wan-up," "Coots-ah-wah," "Pah-gah-shup," and "Yab-oots." 68 Tutsegavit has already been referred to as an influential headman on the Santa Clara among the Tonoquints. It is probably he (although it might be Tahb-go) who is referred to in the treaty as "head Chief." He was influential, but he was by no means a head chief. In fact, as previously stated, he was at one time removed as headman of his band, though he was later restored. He was known as a good Mormon who cultivated friendly relations and often acted as a spokesman to his people in protecting the whites. Tahb-go is probably the same person as Tau-gu, an important headman of the Cedar band-the band most closely tied with and controlled by the Mormon Church. John Wesley Powell later identified Tau-gu as the "Chief" of eleven bands of Nuwuvi located in Utah and Arizona.69 It is doubtful that any Nuwuvi ever had that much power. The same power was claimed for Tutsegavit at the same time. O-wan-up's name was also spelled "Awanap." He was headman of the band variously called "Pah-ra-goons" or "Pa-ru-guns." This band had inhabited the Little Salt Lake Valley when the Mormon Iron Mission arrived.70 By the time of the treaty signing they, like the Cedar band, had become laborers on Mormon farms or on their own farms under Mormon guidance. Some of them probably had joined the band they always had been closely allied with, the Pa-gu-its, |
