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Show children. She Government has asked you many times to place them in School. " Mr. Redshaw, the farmer at Aneith, who i s with me today, has told me oh a t when he f i r s t knew you Utes," many oi jrou had good bands ox steep and goats, out shortly after the trouble you " had a t Bluff City, that these sheep and goats r a p i d l y disappeared and now you have but very few". " You have in your band some ola and thougliuxul men v/ ho have seen t h e i r people lack food and clothing for many years and they will t e l l you Ghat your present TOO do ox l i fe i s not good and t h a t , if your conditions do not improve, in a few years there will be no Utes in t h i s band. I want you to know me as your friend and as a representative of your Commissioner. I want to help you, but ohis I can not do alone unless you join hands with me and help yourselves. " I am glad to see so many of you here today. Some white men. v/ ho do not l i k e you, told me that i t was useless for me' to try to c a l l you together beca'use none of you wauld come. She fact that you are here to meet me today, shows me that you are r. eady t o Degin to help" yourselves. " You have lived in these canyons many years and it maybe possible t h a t Washington " will help you get some land for your own t o l i v e upon. v I do not know that-' Washington" w i l l do t h i s , but I w i l l write your Commissioner and t e l l him and when he writes to me, I w i l l come to you again and c a l l you. together and t e l l you what he says and what can be, done for you. :" iTowt_. I wish to %^ K- io you on only" a\ veryV'few'f- hin- gs xoday:: and when " you t a l k ^ ^ we may have, a clear; under standing and not bring many things' : L& xo this council and ^ accomplish no thing." -£ 07;', if there/' are any . of you; who want to t a l k . t o me ,; I w i l l listen,'? out" " remember what I have" t o l d you" when you t a l k . : 50" not t a l k about " many t h i n g s ." She Indians agreed that Maneos Jim should t a l k tox them f i r s t and t e l l me what their conditions" were, what ;? ihey would do and. what they wan t e d . - Maneos ; Jim spoke as follows: "\ 7e are glad to welcome you here today and we believe t h a t you are our friend.;^. Some:' time ago a man came from Washington, _ by the name of Baca/ Shere was but a few of us v/ ho save him', but he xold us that' in Washington they " said t h a t we were a very bad band of Indian sand t h a t a l l uhe . white man's papers said . that we v/ ere bad. We want you t o write to |