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Show 98 " I can learn of no effort having been made to locate any portion of thie tribe ... There ie no tribe of Indians in the Territory with whoa I have any acquaintance that have been so muoh discommoded by the introduction of a white population as the Sho- Sho- nee. For the past few years they have been compelled to live in the mountains ( as the game has all been driven off the lowlands) where the snow frequently falls to such depths as to be destructive to nan and beast. But notwithstanding all the disadvantages under whioh they labor ... I oannot learn that they have ever molested any of our citizens, but, on the contrary, 1 have always been friendly." Further testimony to the tractable character of the native ocoupants of Utah follows in the deaoription of WaBh- a- kee, ohief of a tribe of twelve hundred Snakes, who roamed the east of the Territory. " He has perfeot oommand over them, and is one of the finest looking and most intellectual Indians I ever saw. He prides himself that neither he, nor any of I Indian Affairs Report, 1853, p. 310. |