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Show - 3- To this point in the litigation movement the Southern Utes, located on two reservations in Southwestern Colorado, had not entered into contract with the Wilkinson firm, but it was felt they, too, had a claim against th ® government, so they were brought into the litigation with two new contracts* Thus* this brought together the " Confederated Bands of the Ute** for th ® suit. These contracts were approved by th ® Department of Interior on January 17, 1939? thus, setting th ® stage for an attempt to gain legislative approval for the claim, ^ r these contracts the bands of the Ute Tribe represented for litigation of their land claims included the Uncompahgres* the Uintahs, the White Rivers of the Northern Utes, the Southern Utes, and Ute Mountain Utes of the Southern Utes, I ® mentioned above, the unique position of the American Indian tribes in United State © history has created problems and unique situations in legal matters* To sue the government the tribe had to ask permission of the two other branches of government t the legislative and the executive. It was this route that the Wilkinson firm followed by draft* ing a bill to be presented before the two houses of Congress, The bill, giving the right to sue the government, was known as the Ute Jurisdictional Bill, The reason for it being presented dated back to an agreement following, the Meeker Massacre in 1879. %* that agreement the reservation that was to be established for th ® Uncompahgre Utes had not been establish © d* About twelve million acres had been set aside by the government for the reservation} however, at that time the government policy was to give Individual Indians allotments of land which then could be used for farming and ranching, and when, by the latter |