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Show 93 c i v i l i z e d nan, i s a desideratum upon the solution of which depends the future policy of government 1 toward him." The Efforts of the Indians. The significant faot about these farms that substantiates Dr. Hunt's hopeful 2 judgment is that the Indians themselves desired them, and where it was impossible for them to receive aid, undertook farming on their own aooount with such poor tools as they had. This was true of the Piede Indians in Washington and Iron counties in southern Utah. They showed themselves to be peaceable and industrious and glad of instruction in farming from the citizens, who 3 lent or furnished the tools. In Washington county, then the extreme southwest corner of the Territory, the efforts of the Piede Indians who until 1856 tere never visited by an agent, were particularly appealing. Suffering misery and famine due to the destruction of their orops by grasshoppers, they 1 Indian Affairs Report, 1356p. 333. 2 Ibid., p. 325. 3 Ibid., B. 234. |