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Show â- jG The Southern Utes Arapaho raiding party attacked the Ute camp on the banks of the Platte River. Ten years later a federal negotiator, Felix Brunot, helped with the search, hoping that if he found the boy Ouray would help to obtain his people's consent to give up their lands in the San Juan Mountains. The boy was found with the Arapaho and taken to Washington D.C., but refused to admit that he could possibly be Ouray's son. In 1859, after his first wife's death, Ouray married another Tabeguache girl named Chipeta. She was sixteen and Ouray was twenty-six at the time of their marriage. Ouray's relationship with the United States government began with the treaty made by the Tabeguache band at Conejos, Colorado, October 7, 1863, to which his name is signed "U-ray or Arrow." During the negotiations Ouray translated the speeches of his people into Spanish which the government interpreter changed into English. He also signed the treaty of Washington, March 2, 1868, by the name "Ure." A later amendment dated August 15, 1868, carried the name "Ouray." The treaty he negotiated gave the Utes 16 million acres of land, mostly in western Colorado. Before the treaty could be implemented, large new deposits of gold were found in the San Juan Mountains. Ouray accomplished his objectives primarily through patience, diplomacy, and the strength of his personality rather than by any power that he had as head chief of the Utes. Many of the Ute chiefs were jealous of Ouray's position, especially the Northern Utes who believed that the federal government should have chosen one of them as spokesman of the Ute nation. It took them a long time to accept Ouray. Even in his own band there was some resentment. Once in 1872, at the Los Pinos Agency, five sub-chiefs of the Tabeguache band tried to kill Ouray. The one chosen as leader of the group was Sapawanero, a brother of Chipeta and the man who usually took charge of the Tabeguache band when Ouray was gone. The would-be assassins hid in the agency's blacksmith shop as Ouray led his horse across the plaza to get it shod. As Ouray tied his horse to the hitching post, George Hardman, the blacksmith, gave him a warning wink. Ouray was put on his guard just in time, for seconds later Sapawanero ran out of the shop brandishing an ax. Ouray jumped behind the post as Sapawanero swung the ax at him, the blow missing the |