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Show 39 a deputation of Uintah Utesirisited Major Holeman to protest againet white settloents, particularly Mormon. When, in response to Chief Sauriet's ( Sow- er- ette) request, traders visited his Indians, they demanded to know whether any of the white sen were Uonsons. Although one was a Mormon, the faot had to he denied. So great was the hostility expressed toward the Mormons that if they had been recognised as suoh they wbuld have been driven away. The Shoshones were equally opposed, and expressed their 1 disapprobation to the Mormons settling on their lands. It is Important, of course, to understand that the hostility of the Indians was not direoted toward the Mormons as suoh, but rather because they were the most numerous , 3 4 settlers. Fearing for their lands, the Indians also attacked the emigrants. The " Freeman." But though it was natural the Indians should attack any of the white race as their enemies, since all whites were intruders, they were not I House Executive Documents, 35 Cong., 1 Sesa., Vol. X, Doc. 71, pp. 144- 145 ( 956). Ibid., p. 163 ( 956). |