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Show Social Life and Customs - 626 effects of using peyote. Encloses: ( letter missing) NA/ RG75/ 17051- 1926- Con Ute 816.2 Apr. 7, 1926 Burke, Chas. H., Commissioner of Indian Affairs Letter to Thomas C Moffett Attention of the supt. of the Ute Mountain Reservation is being directed to the circular letter about the Native American Church or Peyote Organization. NA/ RG75/ 17501- 1926- Con Ute 816.2 June 5, 1926 Black, E. Z., Farmer, Con. Ute Agency Farmer's Weekly Report Black gives details of daily activities for past week. An Indian woman has died. " As the Indians have become more civilized and are burying in graves instead of the rocks... I helped them out by getting a casket for their dead." July 11, 1927 Warner, H. J., Medical Director, District No. 3 Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Reports on Towaoc hospital. The physician is old and unable to do much work. Needs a physician that can go on to the reservation and break down the superstitions that prevent Indians from using hospitals. Nov. 29, 1927 (?), Stockman Letter to (?) Response to questions in circular No. 2361. Description of Allen Canyon Indians in terms of lifestyle, diet, type of residence, land cultivation and yield, slow adaptation to farming, and maintenance of traditional ways described. |