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Show MOAPA 95 eight miles further east and twenty miles further west. If the government had retained this reservation, it might well have provided enough land for all the Nuwuvi it proposed to move there. A little over a year later, the U. S. Congress instead reduced the reservation to one thousand acres. By the time of the founding of the reservation, Ingalls had managed to gather six bands of Nuwuvi, containing about four hundred members, at the abandoned Mormon town of West Point. There he had parceled out tracts of land to each of the bands and provided them with seeds. A school had been organized with James MacGarigle as teacher. The school opened in an abandoned adobe building with twenty pupils. In 1873 Powell and Ingalls, as Special Commissioners, visited all the Great Basin tribes of Indians. Their report included an examination of the conditions of the Nuwuvi with a view to remove them to some central reservation. Even though the Muddy Reservation had been created to provide for all the Nuwuvi, the idea of moving at least the Utah Nuwuvi to the Uintah Reservation in Northern Utah was still being seriously considered. This was probably because the 1865 treaty, which a few Nuwuvi had signed, provided for their movement. This treaty was unratified but undoubtedly was still being considered by the government. Part of the Special Commissioners' instructions were that they induce some Nuwuvi leader to visit Uintah and encourage them to make their homes there. In obedience to these instructions, Powell and Ingalls met with two Utah Nuwuvi headmen, Taugu and Moak Shinauav. They told the whites that they had discussed going to Uintah with their people. The suggestion had been unanimously rejected because "the Utes of Uintah had been their enemies from time immemorial; had stolen their women and children; had killed their grandfathers., their fathers, their brothers and sons, and . . . were profoundly skilled in sorcery." 9 Since it was found impossible without using force to move the Nuwuvi to Uintah, the commissioners began to adopt their secondary instructions. These involved examining conditions at the Muddy or Moapa Reservation and encouraging the Utah Nuwuvi to move there. The result was that after visiting the reservation, the Nuwuvi delegations agreed to join the bands already at the Muddy if the |