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Show Cedar City 129 at Cedar City.3 Though health conditions at the Cedar Colony were poor and the people were in need of seeds and farming implements, the Goshute agency did little to help them. It was just too far away. In 1919 the Goshute agent made a more lengthy report on the Cedar Colony, saying that they lived on a five and one-half acre plot just outside the city. The land was "purchased and held in trust for them by the Mormon Church. They also used part of an eighty acre area owned by a Mr. Bullock. Bullock, however, had given the tract to his son who was going to take possession, thus reducing the Nuwuvi land to five and one-half acres. The agent recommended that from 40 to 80 acres of land be purchased for the Cedar Nuwuvi. He also suggested that the five and one-half acre tract be purchased since "an official of this church assured me they were willing to transfer this tract, now quite valuable, to the Government, to hold in trust for this band, so long as it may think proper." The Goshute agent reported that the whites in Cedar City praised the Nuwuvi highly. They said that they were industrious and sober. The agent himself observed that they had planted several acres of alfalfa and had purchased a mower. He said that the Nuwuvi appeared to be in good health. He recommended that eight cottages be built and that the Nuwuvi homes be connected with the city water mains. The Nuwuvi told the agent that they were "attached to this spot and declared their desire to live and die there, where the bones of their ancestors rest." 4 Apparently none of the agent's recommendations were acted upon. The government did not set aside land for the Cedar Nuwuvi even though money was twice appropriated, once in 1899 and again in 1925. They were not given a secure land base. Instead in 1925 they were moved down the river a short distance by the Mormon Church which had purchased land for them. The government had gone ahead with its plans to buy land for the Nuwuvi on the assumption that the Mormon Church (who owned at least part of the land being considered) was willing to cooperate. However, the government was rather slow to act. Leaders of the Church in Cedar City apparently either misunderstood the government's intentions or became convinced that the government was going to do nothing. The Mormons decided to acquire land for the Nuwuvi on their own. They complained that despite their efforts |