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Show 113 in 186* 4, were the Indians, in the meantime, permitted to starve and die and lose their lands by the encroachment of white settlers? fhy did the government wait seventeen years before making treaties with the Indians to extinguish their title to the land in Utah, And, why, meanwhile were mutual depredations of whites and Indians allowed to go onT No previous foreign civilization existed to a degree to cause embarrassment in dealing with the Indians, as in the Spanish country further to the south and west. Here for the most part were capable and conscientious f eder< officials, notably Dr. Girland Hurt; the reports of the agents kept the government informed of what was taking place in the territory. These facts, would seem to indicate that the United States had in truth an unusual \ opportunity to make effective the best provisions of the already existing Indian policy at large, relative to treaties, as well as to overoome such specific difficulties as might appear. i Though there were many conditions favorable to I j successful Indian policy in Utah there was one especially j unfavorable phase of the situation and that phase out- \ weighed all advantages. Utah was, of course, frontier, ; j i |
