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Show 61 Provo region for two years, having left it when refusing to take part against the whites in the Walked War. His hand numbering seventy lodges " are the © oat harmless and friendly of any of the Utah Indians,* but like all the others were in great distress. With the ease report, a letter from Garland Hurt 1 who had succeeded Holeman enumerated instances of gif t-giTing which eeem to have little significance other than teaporarily bought peace. He emphasized that delay in treaty making concerning Indian lands occupied by whites made titles insecure and was very unjust to the Indiana causing them to demand tribute. Within three daye four hundred Indians had visited his caap in the BuKboldlJEalley, eonplaining cf hunger . Many had travelled a hundred miles without food. At his request the chiefs assembled their people, and from their great desire to establish peaceful relations, the agent thought it best to negotiate with then a written treaty; 1 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History cf Utah, p. % J& - Eote 25. Indian Affairs Report, 1855. |
